Write 1150-1650 essay in which you examine the manner in which Walmart Business Philosophy has impacted its perception of being unethical towards supply and employee stakeholders. Follow APA guidelines.

The Internet has become an extremely valuable business tool, but it’s also a huge distraction for workers on the job. Employees are wasting valuable company time by surfing inappropriate websites (Facebook, shopping, sports, etc.), sending and receiving personal email, texting to friends, and downloading videos and music. According to a survey by International Data Corp (IDC), 30 to 40 percent of Internet access is spent on non-work-related browsing, and a staggering 60 percent of all online purchases are made during working hours.
Many companies have begun monitoring employee use of email and the Internet, sometimes without their knowledge. Many tools are now available for this purpose, including Veriato Investigator, OsMonitor, Work Examiner, Mobistealth, and Spytech. These products enable companies to record online searches, monitor file downloads and uploads, record keystrokes, keep tabs on emails, create transcripts of chats, or take certain screenshots of images displayed on computer screens. Instant messaging, text messaging, and social media monitoring are also increasing. Microsoft offers software called MyAnalytics, which assembles data from emails, calendars, and other sources to show employees how they spend their time, how often they are in touch with key contacts, and whether they multitask too much. It also aggregates the data for managers to see how their teams are doing.
Although U.S. companies have the legal right to monitor employee Internet and email activity while they are at work, is such monitoring unethical, or is it simply good business?
Managers worry about the loss of time and employee productivity when employees are focusing on personal rather than company business. Too much time on personal business translates into lost revenue. Some employees may even be billing time they spend pursuing personal interests online to clients, thus overcharging them.
If personal traffic on company networks is too high, it can also clog the company’s network so that legitimate business work cannot be performed. GMI Insurance Services, which serves the U.S. transportation industry, found that employees were downloading a great deal of music and streaming video and storing the files on company servers. GMI’s server backup space was being eaten up.
When employees use email or the web (including social networks) at employer facilities or with employer equipment, anything they do, including anything illegal, carries the company’s name. Therefore, the employer can be traced and held liable. Management in many firms fear that racist, sexually explicit, or other potentially offensive material accessed or traded by their employees could result in adverse publicity and even lawsuits for the firm. Even if the company is found not to be liable, responding to lawsuits could run up huge legal bills. Companies also fear leakage of confidential information and trade secrets through email or social networks. U.S. companies have the legal right to monitor what employees are doing with company equipment during business hours. The question is whether electronic surveillance is an appropriate tool for maintaining an efficient and positive workplace. Some companies try to ban all personal activities on corporate networks—zero tolerance. Others block employee access to specific websites or social sites, closely monitor email messages, or limit personal time on the web.
IT Authorities, a Tampa, Florida–based infrastructure management and support organization, is using Veriato 360 employee monitoring software to help improve employee productivity. The company implemented the software in 2016 to reduce what it believed to be “inefficient activities.” According to CEO Jason Caras, knowing that managers can see whether employees are working and exactly how they are working is a huge deterrent to wasteful activity. For IT Authorities specifically, Veriato 360 tracks and records the websites employees are visiting, what documents they are transmitting (and how), what they are sending (and to whom) in email and instant messaging, and even how long they might have been away from their computers at any given time. With Veriato 360, companies such as IT Authorities are able to identify “normal” patterns of activity for an individual’s job, as well as any anomalies, so they can quickly address any potential productivity loss before it costs their company thousands or even millions of dollars in lost work.
A Proofpoint survey found that one in five large U.S. companies had fired an employee for violating email policies. Among managers who fired employees for Internet misuse, the majority did so because the employees’ email contained sensitive, confidential, or embarrassing information.
No solution is problem-free, but many consultants believe companies should write corporate policies on employee email, social media, and Internet use. Many workers are unaware that employers have the right to monitor and collect data about them. The policies should include explicit ground rules that state, by position or level, under what circumstances employees can use company facilities for email, blogging, or web surfing. The policies should also inform employees whether these activities are monitored and explain why.
The rules should be tailored to specific business needs and organizational cultures. For example, investment firms will need to allow many of their employees access to other investment sites. A company dependent on widespread information sharing, innovation, and independence could very well find that monitoring creates more problems than it solves.
Sources: “Technology Is Making It Possible for Employers to Monitor More Work Activity than Ever,” Economist, April 3, 2018; www.privacyrights.org, accessed April 5, 2018; “Electronic Surveillance of Employees,” www.thebalance.com, accessed April 5, 2018; “Office Slacker Stats,” www.staffmonitoring.com, accessed May 3, 2017; “How Do Employers Monitor Internet Usage at Work?” wisegeek.org, accessed April 15, 2017; and Veriato,“Veriato 360 Helps IT Authorities Quickly Increase Employee Productivity,” March 15, 2017.
Please answer the following questions for the case study.
Case Study Questions
1.Should managers monitor employee email and Internet usage? Why or why not?
2.Describe an effective email and web use policy for a company.
3.Should managers inform employees that their web behavior is being monitored? Or should managers monitor secretly? Why or why not?

Instructions:  There are four (4) topic areas listed below that are designed to measure your knowledge level specific to the social issues of equity and access relative to class, race and gender.  You must respond to #2 and select any other two of these topic areas providing appropriate responses in essay form.  In most cases the topic area has several components. Each must be addressed to properly satisfy requirements.
State-wide and in most professional industries, there has been a mandate that college students be more proficient in their writing. While this is not a writing class, all writing assignments will be graded for grammar, syntax and typographical correctness to help address this mandate.
Pay attention to what you are being asked to do (see Grading Rubric below). For example, to describe does not mean to list, but to tell about or illustrate in more than two or three sentences, providing appropriate arguments for your responses using theories discussed in our text.  Be sure to address all parts of the topic question as most have multiple parts. A verifiable current event (less than 4 years old) relevant to at least one of the topics you respond to is a fundamental component of your quiz as well.  You cannot use information from the text book or any book/article by the author of the text book as a current event.  Make sure that your reference has a date of publication.  For each chapter quiz and final quiz you are required to find and include at least one reference and reference citation to a current event less than 4 years old (a reference with no date (n.d.) is not acceptable) in answer to at least one question.  This requires a reference citation in the text of your answer and a reference at the end of the question to which the reference applies.  You must include some information obtained from the reference in your answer.  The references must be found on the internet and you must include a URL in your reference so that the reference can be verified.
You should type your responses directly under the appropriate question.  Be sure to include your name on your quiz. Only the first three (3) questions with answers will be graded.   Include your name in the document filename. Your completed quiz must be placed in the appropriate eCollege Dropbox, no later than 11:59 pm on the due date.   Do well.

1. (a) Do we, as a society, have a special obligation to disabled persons to ensure that they have full Internet access? (b) Is the argument that by providing improved access and services for disabled persons, non-disabled users will benefit as well, a reasonable argument? Consider that it can be dangerous to reason along this line; for example, suppose that non-disabled persons did not benefit from software applications designed for the disabled. (c) Would that be a reason for not investing in software for disabled people? Defend your answer. Please elaborate (beyond a yes or no answer) and provide your “theoretical” rationale in support of your responses. (comprehension)
2. Theismeyer described racist/hate Web sites in this chapter. (a) Should Web sites that promote racist speech be allowed to thrive on the Internet? (b) Has the proliferation of these sites increased the incidence of racism on a global scale? Or is the Internet, as some have suggested, a force that can help to reduce racism? Please elaborate (beyond a yes or no answer) and provide your “theoretical” rationale in support of your responses. (comprehension)
3. The increased use of expert systems (ES) technology in many professional fields has generated some ethical and social concerns.  Some  ethical controversies surrounding ESs have to do with critical decisions, including life and death decisions; for example, (a) should “expert doctors” be allowed to make decisions that could directly result in the death of, or cause serious harm to a patient? If so, (b) who is ultimately responsible for the ES’s decision? (c) Is the hospital that owns the particular ES responsible? (d) Should the knowledge engineer who designed the ES be held responsible? Or is the ES itself responsible? In answering these questions, you may want to take a look back in chapter 4, specifically the case involving Therac-25. Please elaborate (beyond a yes or no answer) and provide your “theoretical” rationale in support of your responses. (comprehension)
4. (a) What obligations does the United States have, as a democratic nation concerned with guaranteeing equal opportunities for all its citizens, to ensure that all its citizens have full access to the Internet? (b) Does the United States also have obligations to developing countries to ensure that they have global access to the Internet? If so, (c) What is the extent of those obligations? If not, (d) Why? For example, (e) Should engineers working in the United States and other developed countries design applications to ensure that people living in remote areas with low connectivity and poor bandwidth have reasonable Internet access? If so, (f) Who should pay for the development of these software applications?  If not, (g) Why? Please elaborate (beyond a yes or no answer) and provide your “theoretical” rationale in support of your responses. (comprehension)

One of the criticisms of the Hebrew Bible is the violence of God. Scriptures from other religions (Hinduism: The Bhagavad Gita is set entirely in war; the Qur’an talks of war; Christianity is based on a final battle and destruction of the world) depict their gods as violent as well. However, throughout the Hebrew Bible God is also depicted as a God of love.
Main discussion questions for the week:
Given the Covenants between the Israelites and God, the 10 Commandments, the beauty of the Psalms, and the predictions of the prophets, provide three (3) of your own observations about this violent/loving God.
Judaism is a religion of doing and faith is seen in actions towards others.

• Compare and contrast the 10 Commandments with the 8-Fold Path of Buddhism, the Confucian Virtues, and the 12 Vows of Jainism.
• Are we seeing the same concept of doing and faith today, or has there been a shift as we move to Western religions?

In this paper, you will complete an evaluation of 15-20 pages research paper on ethical issues in regards to modern day science and technology. Students will be able to write about the perspectives of Christian principles and values toward life. The research paper will illustrate how modern day science is trying to enhance and preserve modern life beyond the life expectancy. It will also demonstrate how scientists and modern technology can be useful.  It will explore the pros and cons of modern technology and observe ethical issues in the era of modern day science such as cloning and human sleeves which scientist is a human body transfer. The conclusion will display and explain how science and religion can work together for the benefit of human race.
Format your paper MLA style. Use at least 12 sources.