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Essay Instructions: Assignment is to answer the following question in 2 pages:
Identify for me a basic physical privacy right issue in the workplace you are studying. You may think about:
? drug testing
? polygraph testing
? physical requirements about hair or clothing
? pregnancy
? dating/sexuality
? whatever you wish.
EXPECTATIONS:
Identify one issue and explain the utilitarian and deontological considerations.
Objectives
? Explain the nature of physical privacy in the workplace
Reading assignments
please read the following two articles from Proquest in our cyber library:
Drug testing: The things people will do
The American Salesman; Burlington; Mar 2001; Anonymous;
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=68899525&SrchMode=1&sid=23&Fmt=3&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=4&clientId=29440

Abstract:
Many companies have instituted drug testing policies to insure their workforce is drug-free. This, of course, has created the demand for products designed to help those who would normally fail to pass the tests. Unlike the urine test, which can only test for recent use of drugs, the hair test allows companies to look back into a person's past few months of possible drug use. This is because when someone uses drugs, the chemicals are absorbed into the skin and stay there for a long period of time. One other benefit of having a drug testing policy or requiring prospective employees to take drug test is those who use drugs usually will not want to work for a company that touts employees and that may be the easiest way to screen out possible problem employees without ever having to pay for the tests at all.
Read:
Workers Get Greater Drug Test Protection
New York Times; New York, N.Y.; Dec 15, 2000; Laurence Zuckerman;
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=65213550&SrchMode=1&sid=24&Fmt=3&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1&clientId=29440
Abstract:
The new rules extend to validity testing two safeguards that already protect a worker who actually tests positive for any of five illegal drugs: cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, marijuana and PCP. A medical review officer, hired by the employer, will have the right to cancel the result of a validity test upon finding a sound medical reason for a specimen's testing illegitimate. And workers will have the right to demand that a second sample of their specimen be tested at a laboratory different from the first.

Serious questions about validity testing, which is now optional, at the employer's discretion, were raised in September after Delta Air Lines agreed to reinstate four flight attendants and a pilot whom it fired last year for failing validity tests. Delta had maintained that the tests were accurate, and the four flight attendants, though insisting that they had not tampered with their specimens, had been unable to challenge the airline's decision.

Yasuko Ishikawa, one of the four Delta flight attendants who lost their jobs, weighed 90 pounds, rarely ate meat and, on the day she was tested last year, drank about three quarts of water to avoid dehydration during a nine-hour flight from Japan. A few days later she was told that her sample had been ''substituted,'' and within weeks, Delta had fired her for submitting a false specimen.

Essay Instructions: The session long project, at TUI, is not a term paper. It is not a long project due at the end of the course.

Rather, the session long project is your chance to take something from the real world and apply it to the topic of each module.

There are two parts to this session long project:

I

I would prefer you to select the company you work for as your real world situation to study. If you do not wish to do that, then please select a company you know something about.

You will be thinking about how your company handles different moral problems.

Please write a little bit about the company you will be working on

II

Identify for me a basic physical privacy right issue in the workplace you are studying. You may think about:

drug testing

polygraph testing

physical requirements about hair or clothing

pregnancy

dating/sexuality

whatever you wish.



EXPECTATIONS:

Identify one issue and explain the utilitarian and deontological considerations.

Please answer this question in two to three pages and upload it to coursenet by the end of this module.

Essay Instructions: Identify for me a basic physical privacy right issue in any workplace you wish. You may think about:
? drug testing
? polygraph testing
? physical requirements about hair or clothing
? pregnancy
? dating/sexuality
? whatever you wish.
Identify one issue and explain the utilitarian and deontological considerations.

Essay Instructions: Identify for me a basic physical privacy right issue in the workplace you are studying. You may think about:

drug testing

polygraph testing

physical requirements about hair or clothing

pregnancy

dating/sexuality

whatever you wish.



EXPECTATIONS:

Identify one issue and explain the utilitarian and deontological considerations.

Please answer this question in two to three pages and upload it to coursenet by the end of this module.