Remember the Hawthorne Studies from Business & Society, Principles of Management, and/or Organizational Behavior? Even back in the early 1930 workers to the point where management knew how many telephone relays per hour, per minute. You have read about utilitarian theory. You have studied how managers have every right to optimize production. Hopefully, in a college of business, you are learning those tools every day-that is why you are studying business... Businesses own the machinery, the method, the material, and they hire the human resources to put everything together to build a good or service. Anything that decreases productivity is essentially theft of resources from the firm we could (and did) monitor were built per day, Question #1 Why in the world would any worker have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in the workplace? Ordinarily I don't like to use the questions right out of the book, however this close to home for me. Please turn to page 342 under "Questions, Projects and Exercises" look at question #6. "Term papers on the Internet... one strikes practically every subject imaginable are available on Question #2: Are you persuaded? Question #3: Is there anything unethical about this service in general? Question #4: If so, who should be held accountable, the poster, the ultimate user, or someone else? Question #5: What can be done to combat this practice? Technological, or otherwise?