Response Paper

Every employee is entitled to privacy but the employers are having the right to monitor the activities of the employees to ensure that they do not violate the obligations of the corporation. This is because employees may offend the clients when exercising their rights thus forgetting that the corporation is required to protect the clients as well as the employees. In order for the organization to maintain a good reputation and image it has to ensure that the employees behave in favorable manner. This is therefore achieved by monitoring their behaviors to avoid running the image of the organization. Reputation and a good image are maintained by ensuring that the relationship among those that are involved is friendly (Gosett, 58). Therefore as much as the employees have the right of expression and association the company has the obligation of regulation what they do.

            For instance the employer can regulate the content that the employees should share on their social media apparatus. This information should not therefore affect the corporation negatively or should not expose the corporation’s shareholders. Another example is the fact that the activities of the corporation should remain private and should not be shared with the public. The employer should not therefore share this information such as the approaches that the corporation has adopted to attain a competitive advantage (Gosett, 57).

An example is the sub way worker who was fired after posting a picture on her Instagram page as well as twitter which contained private parts of a male gender in sandwiches and urine that was frozen (Cross, 302). This was offensive for the corporation image and reputation since she was an employee and this demonstrated bad behavior and bad for the image of the organization. In addition Shea Allan an investigative reporter was fired after she posted a confession on her own blog of stealing mails and sleeping on her job (Cross, 302). This was an antisocial behavior which exposed the corporation in a negative way.

 

 

            Work cited

Cross, Michael. Social Media Security: Leveraging Social Networking While Mitigating Risk. ,    2014. Internet resource.

Loril M. Gosett. Fired Over Facebook. Issues of Employees and Personal Privacy on        Social Media Websites.