You are a manager at a factory that manufactures bike frames. You supervise workers at the factory
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You are a manager at a factory that manufactures bike frames. You supervise workers at the factory by periodically walking around and observing productivity. However, you cannot be in all places at once. Therefore, in addition to your personal supervision, the employees are required to punch time-cards so you know when they come and go from the factory. Of course, you also keep detailed records about how many bike frames are produced by each employee at the factory. The factory has turned a reasonable profit every year under this system. Despite these measures and the relative success of the factory, Billy Buckston, the owner of the factory, has recently put pressure on you to boost profits. He wants you to increase the performance of the factory workers. He thinks that they are not working fast enough and suggests that you install closed-circuit cameras in the factory to manage employee productivity. These cameras would be linked to a computer in your office where you could watch over every worker in the factory at all times. Through the sound system installed in the factory, you would then be able to yell directions at any workers who were not working fast enough. Do you think Mr Buckston’s idea would be justified in light of Canada’s privacy laws? In particular, do you think the cameras would be effective in achieving Mr Buckston’s goal of increasing productivity? Can you think of any other less privacy-invasive ways of trying to achieve the same goal?
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Managing the Law The Legal Aspects of Doing Business
ISBN: 978-0132164429
4th edition
Authors: Mitchell McInnes, Ian R. Kerr, J. Anthony VanDuzer