question 3 case study

With reference to your case study and using your own research, evaluate the use of new technologies to:

·         Make it simpler for a employee to use the network

·         Speed up the procedures that the company has to undertake

·         Enhance the security of wireless networks

 

1)      The use of wireless network is very practical but is much more time consuming than the use of a wired network. In some cases there are technological difficulties to simply access and connect to a wireless network, and this often happens in business where the security is at its optimum. New technologies for the wireless networks could verify the person who is trying to gain access and would immediately prompt him without many difficulties.

2)      There is also the huge problem of slow bandwidth connection. Wireless has enhanced significantly since it has build. There are now wireless G, Wireless N, and in the future there will be even faster and wider (WAN) wireless networks that could be used to link to the server like in this case. Like everything there is a limit and currently the limit for wireless G networks is 54 MB/s and the limit for the wireless N is 300 MB/s, even though these are good as a connection to the internet it will be very problematic since there will be a lot of file transfer in the server itself (which it is connected to). Since the fastest wired is the 10 GB/s Ethernet port, there will be an enhancement with the wireless in the near future which could get up to this speed.    

3)      Security is the biggest problem for wireless. Since wireless is a Wide area network (WAN). There could be any malicious attack to the network which would infect the whole server. The future could be heavily enhanced wireless-specific software and functions such as firewalls. Wireless in the future could be invisible to some and would only appear to people who have access, this would be done manually from an IT administer.  

20 questions for employee survailence

20 Questions for Employee surveillance

1)      How does Employee surveillance work?

2)      What types of monitoring is there?

3)      What type of software is used, and can you name some of them?

4)      Who is involved in employee surveillance?

5)      Is employee surveillance legal?

6)      What type of technology is used to monitor employees?

7)      Why do businesses use employee surveillance?

8)      Do you think that businesses have the right to see what their employees are doing?

9)      What are some regulations that have to be placed when monitoring employees?

10)   How can we prevent this problem from happening?

11)   Why should businesses stop this unethical approach?

12)   What is the cost for employee surveillance?

13)    Are the Employees aware that they are being monitored?

14)   If you were a business man, and you realize that your employees work rate has dropped, what would you do?

15)   Who is being monitored (meaning levels) and who is monitoring?

16)   Are the employees aware that they are being monitored?

17)   Does it actually work?

18)   Do you think that it an ethical method to approach this problem?

19)   What are some solutions and counter methods for this matter?  

20)   What do you personally think of this matter?

 

Introduction to portfolio extension

Businesses are now more demanding than ever, and one of their major demands is for employee's work to be up to standard, as a result of this business have started to monitor their employees work and ensure that they are doing their work. The stake holders of this portfolio are the employees, the employer, and the programmers who made the software for monitoring. The people that will be interviewed are an employee who works in an organization and is being monitored, the employer who is monitoring him, and last is a successful Carnegie Mellon student who is studying programming.

Criterion B/ portfolio 3

Criterion B

The IT system that is used is highly sophisticated and is extremely delicate. In order to operate such a surgery using the BRAINSUITE there has to be a number of people who are all working in the operating room; it will consist of 2-3 surgeons, one anesthesiologist, and a number of nurses. Since this technology extremely innovative there will usually be a dozen people in the operating room. The doctor (who will be the person responsible for the operation) will be located at the computer console and doesn’t have any physical contact with the patient; he will be operating on him directly with the robot through the computer. This will enable the doctor to use the magnification component of the BRAINSUIT and view very clearly at pinpoint areas (where the human eye cannot view). The other component is they could do extremely precise incisions with the very steady and accurate Robot Arm, which is much more efficient than the human arm.


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Criterion B/ portfolio 3

Criterion B

The IT system that is used is highly sophisticated and is extremely delicate. In order to operate such a surgery using the BRAINSUITE there has to be a number of people who are all working in the operating room; it will consist of 2-3 surgeons, one anesthesiologist, and a number of nurses. Since this technology extremely innovative there will usually be a dozen people in the operating room. The doctor (who will be the person responsible for the operation) will be located at the computer console and doesn’t have any physical contact with the patient; he will be operating on him directly with the robot through the computer. This will enable the doctor to use the magnification component of the BRAINSUIT and view very clearly at pinpoint areas (where the human eye cannot view). The other component is they could do extremely precise incisions with the very steady and accurate Robot Arm, which is much more efficient than the human arm.


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Criterion A / portfolio3

The Brain Surgeon's New Toolbox

Criterion A

Brain surgery has gone to the next step when using cutting edge technology. The M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas in Huston has reached optimum level when handling extremely delicate situations like brain surgery (Rosenwald, 2007). The extremely sophisticated neurosurgical setup consists of a ceiling-mounted Camera which has extremely high resolution and focus so that the brain surgeon can magnify and focus the brain, it has a large billboard to display the information at a extremely quick pace which could be viewed by all of the surgeons, and an extra-wide MRI scanner can accommodate bodies which are laid at a side and can’t be rolled at the back. The final result was named the BRAINSUITE and it costs 9.2-million dollars with all the equipment needed to operate it (Rosenwald, 2007). The cost is quite high and most probably won’t be found globally very soon but it is said to be built in other seven US hospitals.

Criterion D/2

Criterion D

The problem which being introduced is that employee monitoring has been more and more popular to companies and the problem is that this policy is abusing the privacy of the employee.

A solution to this problem is to drop this policy and build a new one the new policy will be; to have the access to be informed whether the employee is doing any internet surfing, E mail, or any other technological abuse of any sort, to an extent.

The first component to this is that the company has the right to get a small notice, like a brief popup (a small message in words, and no visuals what so ever) which says something like “workstation 4 is surfing the internet.” This way the manager will be informed but in an ethical way which doesn’t abuse the privacy of the employee. The second component is that the employee will have to be penalised if he gets too distracted and crosses the line; the employee will have a certain number of points which he can use up, for example internet surfing could be 3 points and E Mail use could be 5 points and if the employee passes the number of points he will get penalised (this could be financially or a work related penalty), and if the bigger the line between the points the bigger the penalty will be. The last component is that for the sake of the employee, the company has to get the opinion of the employee so they will get a group of employees and discuss the possible solutions that could be also done.

Criterion C

Criterion C

Privacy has become a huge concern to the average employee, as he is being monitored by their managers or people who have access to monitor them. This problem addresses the social and ethical issues of privacy and productivity.

“Is my employer legally allowed to see what is on my workstation?” Is a common question which people ask and the answer is: Yes, since he has the right to monitor anything that is being done in his network hence he the right to monitor you (Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, 2006). It is vital that the employees have their privacy and have their right to do what they desire. This is because, businesses also have to look out whether their actions are ethical or not, because how could they attract a costumers or even more employees with unethical company behaviour, like abusing the privacy of others.

Companies are deliberately monitoring their employees because they want to see their productivity rate go up. It is true that after employee monitoring software’s have been placed in companies the productivity rate of the average employee has gone up (Schulman, 2001). The problem is that the employee’s well-being will drop and if that drops then the Well-being of the hole firm will drop, thus causing a problem with the lack of motivation and even though the productivity is going up the problem is that the quality of the work will drop, and in businesses the quality is much more important.

criterion b/2

Criterion B

The IT system that is used is not that sophisticated, the Software is written to keep track on the things that the employee are looking at on the computer screen. It is specifically made for this scenario, where the manager wants to observe what his employee’s are working on and what his employees are looking at in their computer, since the computer could be used for a number of different purposes. The main purpose for this software is to allow the manager to observe what his employees are doing.

This software is linked to the Network that is used in the office (which is linked to all the computers in the office or building, look at figure 1), so the software will be transmitting the information from the employee’s work office (what he is looking at) to the manager in charge of keeping track of the employee’s work. The software is very sneaky in withholding the information on the employee screen, because it hacks into the computer and with these following methods; Packet sniffers, Log files, Desktop monitoring programs, Closed-circuit cameras, they could instantly observe what the employee is doing(look at figure 1). Some of the names that are given to these programs consist of Shadow, SpyAgent, Web Sleuth and Silent Watch.




Figure 1

criterion b/2

Criterion B

The IT system that is used is not that sophisticated, the Software is written to keep track on the things that the employee are looking at on the computer screen. It is specifically made for this scenario, where the manager wants to observe what his employee’s are working on and what his employees are looking at in their computer, since the computer could be used for a number of different purposes. The main purpose for this software is to allow the manager to observe what his employees are doing.

This software is linked to the Network that is used in the office (which is linked to all the computers in the office or building, look at figure 1), so the software will be transmitting the information from the employee’s work office (what he is looking at) to the manager in charge of keeping track of the employee’s work. The software is very sneaky in withholding the information on the employee screen, because it hacks into the computer and with these following methods; Packet sniffers, Log files, Desktop monitoring programs, Closed-circuit cameras, they could instantly observe what the employee is doing(look at figure 1). Some of the names that are given to these programs consist of Shadow, SpyAgent, Web Sleuth and Silent Watch.




Figure 1

criterion A/2

Criterion A/2

The fact is that in our current society people have been abusing their technological privileges, specifically E-mail and the internet. This is particularly aimed at businesses which come from a range of private or public companies; the employees in our current society have been abusing the technology to access their private E-mail for personal purposes, accessing the internet for shopping online, and entering unethical websites like dating pages, from a Business’ point of view this should be a clear burden since these companies could be working for a ethical purpose plus if that is not the case then the employee’s should not be getting paid for these actions. This is a problem which has to be addressed from the higher ups (predominantly CEO’s) and the results are that the managers now have the right to access employee files and spy on their work

This problem addresses the social and ethical issues of Privacy and Productivity. The Privacy is being addressed to the Mangers who are doing all of the surveillance, and the fact is that the companies are abusing the privacy of others. The reason from this is that companies are deliberately attacking the privacy of their employees so that they could get more productivity from their employees, by force. Although the businesses are doing this, this could be a downfall for businesses because this technology will affect the well-being of an employee when working since he is being monitored and rubbed from his privacy, this will also cause discomfort for the employee.

Criterion B - 2

Criterion B

The IT system that is used is very high the Software is written to keep track on the things that the employee is looking at on the computer. It is specifically made for this scenario, were the employee wants to see what his employee’s are working on and what his employees are looking at in their computer, since the computer could be used for a number of different purposes. This software is linked to the Network that is used in the office (which is linked to all the computers in the office or building), so the software will be transmitting the information from the employee’s work office (which he is looking at) to the manager in charge of keeping track of the employee’s work.
This System is specifically made for keeping track of all the work that is being in the

criterion a- 2

Criterion A

The fact that in our current society people have been abusing their technological privileges like e-mails and the internet. This is specifically aimed at businesses which are private or public; the employees in our current society have been abusing the technology to access their private E-mail for personal purposes, accessing the internet for shopping online, and entering unethical websites like dating web pages. This is a problem which has to be addressed from the higher ups (predominantly CEO’s) and the results are that the managers now have the right to access employee files and spy on their work