In order for companies to get optimal working ability and prevent ethical problems in the work place the companies create a code of practice for use of a computer in the organisation.
Examples of these practices are
Email
The code of practice prohibits the use of emails that contain verbal abuse directed at a staff member, using emails to harass staff members, spamming unimportant emails to people in the business, spamming emails to people it has nothing to do with. It also allows a small amount of private emails to be sent to friends, family and love ones but prohibits constant emailing to external sources.
Use of internet
The code of practice prohibits the browsing of inappropriate or the over use of personal websites. Inappropriate entails pornography, gambling, piracy websites and illegal purchasing websites, as over use of personal websites entails over using websites like Facebook or Steam while working. However most company web servers have blocking software on it to prevent viewing of these websites.
The encouragement of whistle blowing
Whistle blowing means that if anybody is misusing their use of the computer a large portion of the time and gets spotted doing this on a regular basis, the spotter is encouraged to tell management especially if it is the the people who enforce the code of practice or doing something illegal with in the work place. an example of this is when a CIA agent in the 1980s was selling drug evidence to make a profit when one of his work colleagues found out he reported it to his boss and the agent was arrested.
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