Week 3: Discussion and Blog Student Response


Domestic Violence

Knutsford Thompson

4/11/2017 10:10:43 PM




Using the resources provided, your own research, and your knowledge of the ethical concepts from the text, consider the issue of off-site monitoring of conduct:

  • Considering your own work experience, imagine a circumstance in which your supervisor monitored your behavior off the job. Describe the circumstances, including how and why your conduct was monitored. The only time I've seen someone behavior monitored while off-duty is if they are pending UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice) charges, these are the rules and regulation the military has to follow along with any state and federal law that they are station in or the incident took place. Domestic Violence is a big issue for the military, and if convicted can end a person career.

  • Would you consider your example to involve a minor, moderate, or severe invasion of an individual’s privacy? Explain your reasoning. Share your unemotional, well-defined, evidence-based response to your boss to support your viewpoint. Everyone has a right to privacy, but when lives are involved, it a bit different.

  • What issues do you believe led to your employer monitoring you? Use one ethical theory or perspective to help support your employer’s viewpoint, and use a scholarly source as your evidence. As an employer you have to really rely on your Deontology skills, look at the action that was committed, and how you can prevent it from happening again. But we also need to take into account the individuals Virtue Ethics.

  • What about your viewpoint as the employee? Use one ethical theory or perspective to support an employee’s right to privacy outside of work, and use a scholarly source as your evidence