Introduction The intention of this report is to document and concisely illustrate the issues surrounding the misuse of email facilities provided by MoneyWise Ltd. It will examine the direct threats that any abuse of the email facilities will have on the company. Explain fully the reasons why MoneyWise Ltd requires email usage guidelines. Present a policy outlining acceptable email usage for the company and discuss any legal implications surrounding this policy. Discussion Threats This section of the report will investigate the threats that unrestricted email use would have on organisations. An article according to Rothman and Taffae (2003, p.56) states, by some estimates close to 7.2 billion emails are sent everyday. With this instant approval of the usage of emails as a method of mass communication, it has evoked a substantial risk of legal responsibility for companies. Email has the ability to inadvertently cause damage or embarrassment with the click of a send' button advise Rothman and Taffae (2003, p.56). The informal impression for employers and employees of sending an email is misleadingly perilous, and it is considered things are conversed in emails, which would under no circumstances be said in writing. The key threat with emails is that, they leave a written record even after they have been deleted. This written material or confidential corporate information could potentially lead to embarrassment, defamation or legal implications and an undesirable effect on a company's reputation, if an inappropriate email was leaked, external to the organisation. Another risk of uncontrolled email usage is the huge amount, of an organisations time and money, employers and employees waste on sending pointless emails. This state of affairs could consequently result in lower productivity and performance of a business. According to Best (2003) statistics from business-writing consultants Emphasis state, companies are now spending an average of £10,000 per person per year paying employees to read and write unnecessary emails and, that people often have to wade through 30 or 40 emails before they can begin their real work'. One of the most dangerous threats to a business of email misuse is the distribution of offensive material. The circulation of offensive content, which once could have been considered light office banter, places companies open to damaged reputations and litigation, with the company and its directors personally liable. As commented above offensive email messages sent can be incredibly problematic, but so can that of material sent to other employees within the company.
Information technology and internet introduced the term Spam; irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the Internet to a large number of recipients. But any irrelevant and unclear information distributed in bulk by any sort of media can be considered as a spam. Before information technology, spammers used telegrams to send unsolicited commercial telegrams advertising the business. During great depression wealthy Americans were flooded with unclear investment marketing offers. Advancement in Information technology made people connect over the internet. The rise of internet made the spammer’s job simple by using electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages (spam), especially advertising, indiscriminately.
We have learned from Pillsbury v. Smyth, which is a similar case, that Joe could, in fact, be terminated for his actions. He could be terminated legally because there is no exception to the employer’s right to terminate an employee-at-will doctrine. His termination does not violate Public Policy. In the Smyth v. Pillsbury (1996) case, it was ruled that Smyth had no reasonable expectation of privacy because he was using a company computer. Joe was using a company computer to write the email, so there is no expectation of privacy either. In order to limit the liability of the company, termination of Joe would be the best step. The company should expect for Joe to follow through with the legal action, so they should be prepared to defend themselves in court. Joe will be jaded for being fired and possibly want revenge. As for the impact on operations, I would send out a memorandum that explains the privacy policy of the company, and the policy for criticizing customers. Letting people know what is expected this would limit the impact on
Treat any emails with respect & confidentiality i.e. do not share with anyone that should. Never walk away from your computer so that someone else can read your emails or even worse be in a position where someone could send an email on your behalf.
Further on, the manager’s actions can demoralize the workforce that could put the business in danger. The use of emails and social media should be taken care of to reduce the number of cases of carelessly sent emails in the office that are keen to harm relationships. The small aspects the managers do such as complimenting and giving feedback to the employees are what define how workers will view the
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This would affect the employee’s effectiveness in his work where this would lead to other barriers like a lack of communication where this would make the employee to feel angry and frustrated because of the email that was sent. The ways the barrier can be overcome is by not sending such emails and speak to the employee face to face or by telephone where tis would make the employee to feel that they are surer what is being said instead of relying on technology to make sense on what the other employees are saying.
This system helps all of these banks provide financial secrecy which is that only you and your banker would legally be allowed to know the financial activity within your account. The financial secrecy, completely different from financial privacy, includes many regulations to maintain this asset of secrecy. For example, many banks would n...
receiving money by means of computers in an easy, secure and fast way using an account-based system. This can be
In Australia, Employers should implement best practice on how to maintain privacy in the workplace in accordance with the privacy standards set out in the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) (Welcome to the Fair Work Ombudsman website. n.d.). Privacy is able to keep our own personal information private and also able to do things without any electronic monitoring in the workplace. Nowadays, many company increased the usage of technology such as internet and email in the workplace. This can create issues in privacy. When employees’ access to web browsing activities during working hours, the employer can be scrutinized it. Employers take this action due to fear lawsuit if employees act in inappropriate ways. Therefore, the best policy is to explain clearly how is appropriate to use email and internet at work and outline what type of use is prohibited in the workplace. Besides that, employer also needs to ensure the employee didn’t disclose or disseminate any important information to the competitors or
Electronic Mail, a means of communication that is growing at a very rapid rate. In this paper, I will write about introduction of e-mail, the advantage and disadvantage of e-mail, mailing lists, sending an e-mail message, sending attachments, e-mail improvement, and security features. Introduction of Electronic Mail Electronic mail (E-mail) has become popular and easy way of communication in this decade. E-mail is a method of sending and receiving document or message from one person to another. E-mail is not only replacement for postal mail and telephones, and also it is a new medium. E-mail send plain text, images, audio, spreadsheets, computer programs can attach to an e-mail message. Using the e-mail, you must have a computer on a network. The computer must require a modem and phone line. Sending and receiving e-mail needs an e-mail program. Every e-mail user requires an e-mail address. This e-mail address is similar to a postal address. E-mail address is written as username@domain, for instance, PCLEE@juno.com. The username is used for sending and receiving e-mail.
Communication is important in life. Companies need to communicate with other companies and customers. The managers also need to communicate with the staff. The technology provides us with many means of communication, the most important of which is e-mail.
Email (electronic mail) was one of the biggest breakthroughs in communication when the internet was commercialized. With email, it became possible to send messages and letters across the world in a matter of seconds to the recipients address. Email was used as an alternative to conventional mail or snail' mail, as the term was introduced to describe its speed. As technology improved, it became possible to attach' documents, photographs and even sound clips or songs to emails which made mail by post redundant. Emails used packet switching software whereby the email was broken down into packets' and sent via the internet to the recipient.
The first online banking system was created in 1980 in New York, and was adopted by four main banks; Citibank, Chemical, Manufacturers Hanover and Chase Manhattan. The sector needed an innovation in banking systems because of growing consumer demand for service improvements as well as fear of losing market share. In the beginning, online banking was treated at private customers and small companies, to help customers have easier access to their bank accounts, however, now it achieves a global reach through the population. (Cronin 1997) In today’s world, electronic business (E-business) is very important especially for the banking system, plays a fundamental role in online banking (Nasri 2011). A true definition of online banking is difficult, because this system is connecting with different services which are constantly evolving. Access to online banking is possible through the internet, phone or even television. (Daniel, 1999; Mols, 1998). This ‘open system’ is available to the customers twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. This is a multi-level organized system, which helps people pay bills, check credit cards or even arrange mortgages without leave their houses. (Singer 2012)
Internet technology is accelerating the rate of globalization. Email, in particular, is now one of the fastest ways for us to communicate with each other, and to do business, making our world much smaller and more immediate. This same technology that can enhance our lives and accelerates the pace of global change can also destroy our personal privacy at the same rate.
Advances in technology have changed businesses dramatically, in particular the communication and information technology that are conducted in firms, which changed the appearance and pace of businesses over the past few decades. ICT in particular, has evolved a lot over the past 30 years; important information can be stored in computers rather than being in drawers enabling information to be transferred at a greater volume and speed (Guy, 2009). ICT has also expanded various forms of telecommunications and workload conducted in businesses, internet examples of this include: e-mails can be used to communicate with others...