Companies Today May Want to Control the Use of Instant

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Essay

Companies today may want to control the use of Instant Messaging (IM)by their employees. What are three of the techniques they could use to accomplish this?

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Definitions:

Transitive Preferences

A condition in decision-making where if an individual prefers option A over option B and prefers option B over option C, then the individual also prefers option A over option C.

Median voter theorem

A theory suggesting that the outcome of a majority rule voting system will represent the preferences of the median voter.

Majority rule

A decision-making process where the option that receives more than half of the votes wins.

Arrow's Impossibility Theorem

A theory stating that no rank-order voting system can meet a set of reasonable fairness criteria simultaneously.