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Information technology enables organizations to easily collect large amounts of information about employees. Discuss the following issues:

a. To what extent should management monitor employees' e-mail?

b. To what extent should management monitor which Web sites employees visit?

c. To what extent should management monitor employee performance by, for example, using software to track keystrokes per hour or some other unit of time? If such information is collected, how should it be used?

d. Should companies use software to electronically "shred" all traces of e-mail?

e. Under what circumstances and to whom is it appropriate for a company to distribute information it collects about the people who visit its Web site?**