Workplace confidentiality requires that this information be identified and secured to prevent unauthorised access or release of the information and includes everything from policies on workplace Internet usage to nondisclosure agreements in employee contracts. Breaches of workplace confidentiality can result in a range of problems. Customers tend not to work with companies they think are untrustworthy, and consumers may specifically warn people away from companies that have mishandled private information like addresses, purchasing records, and credit card numbers. Companies can also experience compromises in their long term business plans if information about products in development or ideas a company is considering are released
It was stated on the door before you were to enter the facility that you were not allowed on the premises wearing gang colors. So with that warning customers that they are entering a place that is aware of the dangers in the area and that the place of business is doing a duty to make sure it patrons are in an environment that will be safe. The business had a duty of obligation to make sure they are doing their best to prevent violence from happening to their customers. Instead of following through with their duty they allowed the bikers in and didn’t follow with what they said and put their customers in harms way. This case is relevant to what I have studied.
There could be different drug testing that are more important for different type of jobs then others like, someone who works with heavy machinery as a manager you would not want anybody drinking alcohol and with someone who sells alcohol you would want that person when they are trying to sell the alcohol to try it out with the possible buyers. For a professional athlete it would be very important to conduct steroid testing for all athletes because it would be considered cheating and lets say for an example someone who works in a library it would not be that necessary to conduct a steroid test on that
Reciprocity is the mutual trust and obligation between researcher and subject. This means that the researcher needed their subject to gain the information and the investigator is obliged not to use the information in an inappropriate manner. Shield law is a law that was put in place to protect writers from having to disclose information from their source. It is government immunity from prosecution. It also restricts or prohibits the use of certain evidence in sexual offense cases.
Second, the author addresses the prohibitionist argument that illegal drugs cause harm to people around the user as well. Huemer agrees that drugs have the potential to ruin a user’s life whether it be laziness, poor communication with others, or not taking pride in one’s work. He states that drug use only has a chance of causing one to behave in these ways. There are people all over the world that voluntarily behave in these ways without the use of drugs. Should these people be arrested for being losers?
Policies are arising in several directions to prevent the intentional, or unintentional, slip of information. Each facility should adapt their own personal rules and regulations regarding the issue of social media and patient privacy. In a law suit regarding a potential violation of the HIPAA, The General Hospital Corporation and Massachusetts General Physicians Organization Inc. agreed to a substantial fine to the U.S. government (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2011). This type of fine sets the example that a violation of patient’s privacy and rights is strictly prohibited. Within social media, a disgruntled employee may also use the sites to damage confidential information regarding a patient.
Those people that are labeled as elder abusers, thieves or predators cannot be a part of the staff in these facilities and must carefully be weeded out of the hiring process. This is done by conducting criminal background checks on the applicants that have hiring potential. Other forms of turnover in SNFs can be caused by poor management. Although the job of the administrator is to make sure the residents are taken care of, a good administrator will try to make sure that staff morale is at a tolerable level. By assuring the staff that their cries and complaints are not being overlooked and rewarding the hard work and accomplishments of the
To prevent sexual harassment, FedEx Company prohibits any conduct that may lead to or be interpreted as contributing to a sexual-harassing workplace, including any sexually-oriented conduct, or conduct based on sex, whether intended or not, that is unwelcome and has the effect of creating a work environment that is hostile, offensive, intimidating or humiliating to male or female employees, vendors, suppliers or customers. This includes the conduct of employees, vendors, suppliers and customers. While it is impossible to
Is it ok to smoke in or around a company’s area? Let’s look at the case from a different angle and go with the fact that smoking is permissible and of a person’s free will. As a manager, I believe it is my responsibility to always look after the health and welfare of employees. Smoking is injurious and dangerous for the health. If there is an employee at work that expresses their belief with regards to not being subjected to smoke in a room where other employees are smoking; I would take immediate action to try to resolve the issue.
Some speak out about it and some do not. Although sexual harassment is taking place it can be prevented by human resource departments and law enforcement. In legal terms, sexual harassment is any unwelcome sexual advance or conduct on the job that creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment. The shorthand version of the definition used by the federal government and most states. But it’s not necessary to couch the problem in legalisms.