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Arg 34 implement electronic monitoring of employees' Internet use

34) The vice president of human resources at Climpson Industries sent the following recommendation to the company's president.

In an effort to improve our employees' productivity, we should implement electronic monitoring of employees' Internet use from their workstations. Employees who use the Internet from their workstations need to be identified and punished if we are to reduce the number of work hours spent on personal or recreational activities, such as shopping or playing games. By installing software to detect employees' Internet use on company computers, we can prevent employees from wasting time, foster a better work ethic at Climpson, and improve our overall profits.

Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.

58) The vice president for human resources at Climpson Industries sent the following recommendation to the company's president.

In an effort to improve our employees' productivity, we should implement electronic monitoring of employees' Internet use from their workstations. Employees who use the Internet inappropriately from their workstations need to be identified and punished if we are to reduce the number of work hours spent on personal or recreational activities, such as shopping or playing games. Installing software on company computers to detect employees' Internet use is the best way to prevent employees from wasting time on the job. It will foster a better work ethic at Climpson and improve our overall profits.

Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.

94) The vice president of human resources at Climpson Industries sent the following recommendation to the company's president.

A recent national survey found that the majority of workers with access to the Internet at work had used company computers for personal or recreational activities, such as banking or playing games. In an effort to improve our employees' productivity, we should implement electronic monitoring of employees' Internet use from their workstations. Using electronic monitoring software is the best way to reduce the number of hours Climpson employees spend on personal or recreational activities. We predict that installing software to monitor employees' Internet use will allow us to prevent employees from wasting time, thereby increasing productivity and improving overall profits.

Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.

C1: In an effort to improve our employees' productivity, we should implement electronic monitoring of employees' Internet use from their workstations.

C2: Employees who use the Internet from their workstations need to be identified and punished if we are to reduce the number of work hours spent on personal or recreational activities, such as shopping or playing games.

C3: By installing software to detect employees' Internet use on company computers, we can prevent employees from wasting time, foster a better work ethic at Climpson, and improve our overall profits.

A1 (C3):the proposed system can necessarily reduce the time of the employees wasted on personal and recreational activities.

A2 (C3):better work ethics and productivity could be achieved by monitoring and punishing employees.

A3 (C3):the benefits of implementing and maintaining such a system would necessarily outweigh the costs.

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The vice president argued that the company could reduce the amount of time wasted by employees and improve work ethic and profits by monitoring the employees use of Internet. The argument is based on a number of assumptions about the efficacy of the system, the effects of monitoring and punishing employees as well as the cost of implementing the system. It is important to examine these assumptions critically in order to evaluate the soundness of the argument.

It is first assumed that the proposed system can necessarily reduce the time of the employees wasted on personal and recreational activities. Yet, a system focusing on the online activities on the workstations may not serve the purpose well. As we know, nowadays most people can surf the Internet with personal mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers that may connect to the Internet via mobile Internet service providers. In addition, employees may also waste time through face-to-face chatting or even daydreaming alone that do not require access to the Internet. Obviously, the proposed system would not be able deal with such online activities via personal devices or offline activities that could also waste a lot of time. Without addressing such scenarios, the system may not achieve the desired results.

Another assumption made in the argument is that better work ethics and productivity could be achieved by monitoring and punishing employees. It is true that certain behaviours may be reduced through punishment as negative incentive. Nevertheless, it is doubtful that employees would feel satisfied and motivated when they are constantly being watched by the proposed system and facing punishment for doing some personal stuff online. The employees may become demoralised and their work ethic and productivity may even deteriorate as a result of implementing such system as they feel that the company does not trust them.

Finally, it is also assumed that the benefits of implementing and maintaining such a system would necessarily outweigh the costs. Here we need to consider both the explicit costs and the hidden costs. Developing and installing the software to all the workstations in the company would certainly cost a large amount of money, especially when the software has to be made robust enough against the hacking of the employees. More importantly, the company may lost some valuable employees who might choose to leave the company feeling offended by such monitoring software. Therefore, the company has to carefully assess the potential benefits and costs of the proposed system before making decisions.

In conclusion, the proposed system may be able to reduce the online shirking among the employees through monitoring and punishing certain behaviours. Nevertheless, it may or may not successfully reduce the waste of time and improve work ethic. Whether the system can improve the overall profits of the company also depends on the benefits and costs of the system. More information has to be collected to examine the assumptions discussed above in order to reach a more accurate and reliable conclusion.

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