Personnel Resources Company Considers Using Software to Analyze Employee Behavior

question 9

Multiple Choice

Personnel Resources Company considers using software to analyze employee behavior with the goal of predicting wrongdoing. In this situation, the ethical focus is on

• A)the success of the software.
• B)sanctions for something yet to be done.
• C)questions of privacy.
• D)whether data mining should occur only online.

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Definitions:

Price Floor

A minimum price set by the government or a regulatory body, below which a good or service cannot be sold in the market.

Compact Discs

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Surplus

A condition in which the amount of a good offered for sale by producers is greater than the amount that buyers will purchase at the existing price. A decline in price would eliminate the surplus.

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