SUBJECT: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

BOOK: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (10TH EDTION)

Assume you are a member of the information services team at a large corporation. The CIO has asked for a confidential meeting with your group to talk about ways to improve productivity. The CIO wants to ensure that people are not sending personal emails or surfing the Web for entertainment while they are supposed to be working. The CIO suggests that employees be informed that their emails and Web surfing will be monitored. In truth, the company does not have the resources to do this and does not plan to implement any monitoring. The CIO strictly forbids anyone in the information services team from revealing this fact. Discuss the ethics of management in making such an announcement