Workplace Privacy
Personal Privacy and its importance within the workplace
“Privacy in the workplace is one of the more troubling personal and professional issues of our time. But privacy cannot be adequately addressed without considering a basic foundation of ethics” (Hartman n.d). We are unable to reach a meaningful normative conclusion about workplace privacy rights and obligations without an understanding of the fundamental and commons of the ethical basis of justice and also a thorough understanding of individual and organizational concerns and motivations
A person’s individual privacy is one that is of utmost consideration within society and the workplace, many would consider it a high priority as a level of importance for one to be endowed upon …show more content…
Right to privacy is the individual’s right to have a private and domestic life that no one could track or get involved in without the consent of the individual.” (Bagdanskis, 2012, p698)
Another fundamental view is provided by Ruth Gavison, who claims that interests in privacy are related to concerns over accessibility to others, that is, what others know about us, the extent to which they have physical access to us, and the extent to which we are the subject of the attention of others. “Thus the concept of privacy is best understood as a concern for limited accessibility and one has perfect privacy when one is completely inaccessible to others.”
Privacy can be gained in three independent but interrelated ways: * Secrecy-when no one has information about one * Anonymity-when no one pays attention to one; * Solitude-when no one has physical access to …show more content…
According to act utilitarianism, “if the consequences of breaking the promise are better than keeping it, then that is what is ought to be done.” (MacKinnon, 2004, p.54) the overall consequences that are achieved if more beneficial, then it should be the action which needs to be taken.
So according to act utilitarianism, if having an individual’s privacy as a strong consideration would then bring out the best outcome such as an increase in performance or better work relations within the environment then that is what needs to be done. However if an individual’s privacy being a high consideration within the workplace would result in a decrease in the standard of work safety, efficiency and productivity which would also mean that it does not result in the best outcome possible then the individual’s privacy concern should not be taken as the highest
“Privacy in the workplace is one of the more troubling personal and professional issues of our time. But privacy cannot be adequately addressed without considering a basic foundation of ethics” (Hartman n.d). We are unable to reach a meaningful normative conclusion about workplace privacy rights and obligations without an understanding of the fundamental and commons of the ethical basis of justice and also a thorough understanding of individual and organizational concerns and motivations
A person’s individual privacy is one that is of utmost consideration within society and the workplace, many would consider it a high priority as a level of importance for one to be endowed upon …show more content…
Right to privacy is the individual’s right to have a private and domestic life that no one could track or get involved in without the consent of the individual.” (Bagdanskis, 2012, p698)
Another fundamental view is provided by Ruth Gavison, who claims that interests in privacy are related to concerns over accessibility to others, that is, what others know about us, the extent to which they have physical access to us, and the extent to which we are the subject of the attention of others. “Thus the concept of privacy is best understood as a concern for limited accessibility and one has perfect privacy when one is completely inaccessible to others.”
Privacy can be gained in three independent but interrelated ways: * Secrecy-when no one has information about one * Anonymity-when no one pays attention to one; * Solitude-when no one has physical access to …show more content…
According to act utilitarianism, “if the consequences of breaking the promise are better than keeping it, then that is what is ought to be done.” (MacKinnon, 2004, p.54) the overall consequences that are achieved if more beneficial, then it should be the action which needs to be taken.
So according to act utilitarianism, if having an individual’s privacy as a strong consideration would then bring out the best outcome such as an increase in performance or better work relations within the environment then that is what needs to be done. However if an individual’s privacy being a high consideration within the workplace would result in a decrease in the standard of work safety, efficiency and productivity which would also mean that it does not result in the best outcome possible then the individual’s privacy concern should not be taken as the highest