Hammer Wines Business Report

Accompanying all actions, there are equal, and opposite reactions. Just as there are many benefits of social media in the workplace, there are many not-so-beneficial attributes associated with allowing social networking in your workplace. Time management is obviously the most important issue for all of us with always-on technologies of communication. Today we can record conversations, take pictures, check email, and visit networking sites through our own telephones. Extended smoke breaks are no longer in the picture when compared to the amount of time employees are using during work to reconnect with friends and family.

As it was pointed out in a global security survey organizations are “haunted” by threats and that raises the concerns and demonstrates how vulnerable they are to attacks. The 48 per cent it thinks it is exposed to loss of data (information leakage) in another case 46 per cent in phishing and pharming and that pairs with the fact that the weakest link in the security system of an organization that causes failure is humans(such as employees, customers) with 86 per cent (Deloitte, 2009: 29-30). Therefore based on the information provided by these surveys, corporate intranets are the main target of internet attacks

Abuse of the Internet access provided by the company in violation of law or company policies will result in disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment. Employees may also be held personally liable for any violations of this policy. The following behaviors are examples of previously stated or additional actions and activities that are prohibited and can result in disciplinary action.

However, this statement is vague because they do not state how the company increases their overall profit by using this approach. This announcement does not elaborate when is the right time and how long for the worker exploiting the internet. If jobholders use the internet to do irrelevant content, they would be spotted by this software. Anyone who does not follow the company policies would be reported, under such circumstances, workers would pay more attention to their duty and greatly improve the company’s’ profits due to all the workers are forcing to do their work. On the other hand, using shorter time on using internet does not mean everyone in this company are using the time acutely while they are not using the internet. Moreover, for that mechanism the company like this required more people to monitor. It means that supervisors or managers have to work longer or stop what they are doing to check in their employees. Still, those people are not paying their own value to the company. Therefore, this way does not boost the overall earnings for its own good pay his or her own value to the company.

Slide two introduces the audience to the “whys” behind the behavior of some companies. In other words, slide two provides a good outline detailing reasons why organizations feel the need to monitor employee email and internet usage. Some of the information provided in this slide are: firms can investigate complaints

The study fails to explain why education emerged as a significant predictor of the likelihood of the frequency of Internet abuse at work supporting Hypothesis 3. It could be, that better-educated workers had more discretionary income that they could spend shopping (no income data). Perhaps more educated workers had jobs that afforded them more autonomy at work and thus more opportunity to engage in undetected Internet abuse.

Many employees are unaware that their employers can monitor what they do online and fire or discipline them based on the information. According to a recent report by the American Management Association, more than a quarter of employers have fired workers for misusing e-mail, and about a third have fired workers for misusing the Internet (Snell & Bohlander,

According to the survey of Internet Usage at Work, a quarter of workers spend an hour or more online at sites unrelated to their work, 22% said 30 minutes to an hour was distributed to entertainment. Nearly 10% promised they never did something not relevant to their jobs (Sharma & Jatinder, 2003). Thus, surveillance in workplace can monitor workers’ performance and reduce the waste of time. Furthermore, monitoring employee’s work has a positive effect on work distribution. Surveillance also can achieve the goal of fair work distribution and show how an employee’s performance is evaluated (Mason, Button, Lankshear, Coates, & Sharrock, 2002, cited in Watkins, Coopman, Hart, & Walker, 2007, p. 175). As a result of which, the employee’s enthusiasm is stimulated and the productivity of business will be significantly improved. The opponent argue that excessive monitoring, however, can do harm to employees, because privacy can be compromised if the disclosure of employees’ information was not authorized, and it may cause leak of private information (Ball, 2010). The significance of appropriately managing this issue recently drawn the public’s attention by the brutal cyberattack perpetrated against Sony information in late 2014. Sony employees’ private information was broadcasted to the third party (Ellis, 2014,

To further our investigation into The Wineries Industry, we will be analysing the finances of Majestic Wine (MW), a large UK based plc, and applying the findings to our own global company. MW has been operating for 35 years with 211 stores in their network (Majestic Wine Warehouse Ltd, 2015). The company offers a different way for us to Merge and Acquire in California. Instead of producing wine, we could introduce a wine retail experience to consumers and source a wide variety of wine and sommelier knowledge to provide them, or buy out a company already operating in this manner. MW source their products from a variety of New and Old World countries, including France, Italy, New Zealand and California (Majestic Wine

University of Bergen (UIB) demonstrates that the usage of social media for private purposes in working hours could have a harmful consequence on work performance. This study can be implemented in the case of emergency health care sector.

            Quantum Software is a computer software company that is nestled in the Rocky Mountains of Denver, Colorado and primarily caters to independent oil businesses. In a short three year growth, founders Stan Albright and Erin Barber have gained traction to over 200 employees and 90 million in sales revenue. With the rapid growth at a fast pace, Quantum employees are subject to hectic and demanding work schedules to keep up with the workload. To relieve the pressure and encourage a team concept, Stan and Erin host a weekly one hour beer bust for the organization.  All employees are invited to join the weekly

One of the legal interns shook a bottle of champagne, uncorked it, and sprayed it all over the large conference room of Uther Pendragon and Associates. Several of his colleagues followed his lead, and all the employees, including Arthur, were soaked in bubbly. Fortunately, the room was free from laptops, tablets, and other electronics, otherwise, it would have been an expensive celebration.

Furthermore, a recent study has shown that social media use by employees is costing U.S. business million of dollars each year in lost productivity.[2]

Social media has increasingly been on the rise for over the past 10 years, so has the concern on the effect of it being in the workplace. People are spending more and more time on social media and other communication technology (Walder). Because of this, researchers have begun to wonder what the effect will be in the workplace. The argument of social media in the workplace is on the rise, and will continue to grow as the Internet continues to transform the way people are spending their time (Carlson).

The growing issues with Internet usage in the workplace has become a major concern for employers. Employers are discovering that employees are spending hours of wasted time surfing the Internet and sending inappropriate emails. Employers classify this type of behavior as, “Internet abuse,” and breaking company’s policies. While employees see this type of behavior harmless, employers see this as potential risks to their organization. Previous researched study show employees spend hours surfing the Internet and sending non-work related emails to co-workers, family, and friends. With millions of employees having access to their employer’s Internet, companies are seeing an increase in Internet usage causing potential legal