The artikel: Sunday, Sep. 03, 2006, Snooping Bosses
By Kristina Dell and Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, give examples from when the workers being watched by their superior.
as one manager says in they artikel "I don't give a rat's rear what they do at home, But what they do at work is all my business."
considering that the managers pay their workers to preform what they are expected to do, i find it very interesting and fully acepted that they are overlooking their staff. If I where having workers that didn`t do their assignment because of other interests and webbpages on working ours they schould be watched and if not amidietly fired at leest being foorst to explain themselves.
As a shareholder I would not accept that the money I put in to a company would go to hours of facebooking or driving children to football practise.
To summary this blogg assignment i find it very accepted for superior workers ti watch over their staff.
Referring to the sentence “I don't give a rat's rear what they do at home, but what they do at work is all my business” I agree with what this manager is saying. You are supposed to work and not spend time blogging, facebooking or doing any non-related business work during the time you are at work. But firing them without listening to what they have to say is unacceptable. They might have finished their work and had a five minute break before they started with a new task and thereby have an acceptable reason. I think everyone deserves a second chance, depending on how important the job was. But isn’t extreme snooping one way to show that you don’t trust your co-workers?
SvaraRaderaAbout shareholding, if they spend more time doing what they are supposed to do, the company could have made a bigger profit, thus increasing the value of each stock. The only thing is that you can’t escape the fact that people will spend time at facebook or any related webpage, unfortunately.
I like the quotetation you refer to. The problem is to make it work in practice. If you snoop a little on your employees, you will snoop on their privacy. All of us need to handle some private things at work every now and then.
SvaraRaderaI agree with you in a sense that if I owned a company I would like to see every employee is working perfectly and using their time and energy completely for the company. However, I also agree with Andreas that a short break should be accepted and the employees should feel free to choose how they want to use it. At the same time, it is the responsibility of me and other managers to fill workers' time with real and productive activities which are towards the company goals and objectives.
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