ITMG 481 American Military University Layoff Processes Case Study

You  lead a group of five mobile software engineers involved in the  development of a new mobile cloud service for providing voice over  internet protocol (VOIP) that enables call to be made over WiFi but  better than Microsoft’s Skype VOIP product. Your manager tells you that  because of a company-wide layoff, you will need to give notice to one  member of your team. From your interactions with team members, you can  easily identify the two members who are least productive, but you are  not sure which of them you should lay off. You know that the company  keeps track of all Internet traffic to each person’s computer, although  you have never shared this information with you team. You could use this  information to determine how much time, if any, these two employees are  spending surfing the Web.

What  might be some of the implications by accessing these records? What  might be the key ethical and/or moral issues, from your perspective,  with using these records to make a managerial decision? How does this  play into what we learned in this course about monitoring  and surveillance of employees?