Monitoring employees' use of networks and social media in the workplace can help improve productivity and protect company resources and information. It ensures employees focus on their job duties during work hours rather than personal matters online. However, questions arise around ethics and privacy. Monitoring may be acceptable if limited to work hours and protecting legitimate business interests, but personal information and off-hours use should remain private. Employers must balance productivity needs with employee rights and confidentiality.

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MKT Peer1 JOHN RESPONSE
It takes time and one has to be cautious when coming up with the survey questions. One
has to consider the respondents when designing the questions in order to ensure that they have the
capability of understanding the questions and the issue does not take a longer time to execute.
Furthermore, the sample questions determine the success of the results since this emanates from
the respondents understanding on the issue. However, one should not structure the questions in
order to match the predetermined answers in the long run since this is unethical and affects the
credibility of the research. Therefore, one should not manipulate the questions once they research
gas been undertaken given that only the data that has been gathered should be used in the research
process and this also helps in eliminating the biases. However, one should structure the questions
in a way that they cover all the aspects in the research process but should not be structured in a
way that they can be termed as leading questions. However, the questions must be clear and concise
to ensure that all the respondents have the similar understanding on the issue at hand given that
the level of education may differ between the respondents.
PEER 2 ELIZABETH RESPONSE
Some of the information in the workplace such as salary is confidential and people may
not be ready to share such details. However, such questions are unavoidable but when such a
research is condu8csted it is important to ensure that they do not lead to cases of making estimates
since they are likely to affect the workplace survey. On the other hand, most people may not be
willing to reveal such information and as result, there is always a need to ensure that the survey
remains confidential. Therefore, such study should not request from the respondents to provide
their names especially when the questionnaires are issued. The same case should also apply to the
other type of research but numerical figures should be used in this type of survey. However, this

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may deviate from the closed questionnaires that are often relied upon in the research process in
order to avoid cases of estimates. Therefore, questions ranging from the salaries and the manner
in which benefits are used within the organization. Specificity, therefore, should be the driving
force by the researcher but the options provided for non-numerical questions should give the
respondents options in order to ensure that the survey is credible.
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Monitoring Employees on Networks: Unethical or Good Business
Monitoring the employees on the network is good for the success of the company. This is
important since it helps in protecting the company resources along with its reputation. According
to Friedman, and Reed, (2007) large percentage of employees often log in to various networks
during the working hours which affects their productivity. Furthermore, the consistent use of the
networks creates a situation where employees are unable to execute their day to day activities on
time or in other cases the employees' attention to their day to day responsibilities may also be a
challenge. Employees personal issues should not affect their ability to work responsibly and since
networks act as the distraction which affects the company revenues. If the employees put more
focus on the networks, their ability to generate the revenues is compromised. Therefore,
monitoring the employee's use of social media helps in improving the company productivity since
employees become more engaged into the business operations. Therefore, the company should
ensure that employees personal issues derived from the use of networks are not incorporated in the
organization activities. It is important for the employees to separate their personal issues from the
business operations (O'Rourke, Teicher, & Pyman, 2011). The employees should only be allowed
to use the social media during the break or after the working hours to ensure that they are able to
concentrate on their work. The company should also monitor employees on the networks in order

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to safeguard the business operations and ensure that the company is not prone to activities such as
hacking which may emanate from the use of social media. Furthermore, it also helps in protecting
the business secrets which may be shared through the use of social media during the working
hours. The confidentiality of the company information is important for the success of the company
operations in the long run.

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References
Friedman, B. A., & Reed, L. J. (2007). Workplace privacy: Employee relations and legal
implications of monitoring employee e-mail use. Employee Responsibilities and Rights
Journal, 19(2), 75-83.
O'Rourke, A., Teicher, J., & Pyman, A. (2011). Internet and email monitoring in the workplace:
time for an alternate approach. Journal of Industrial Relations, 53(4), 522-533.