MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES OF INTERNET TECHNOLOGY

MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES ARISING FROM THE USE OF INTERNET TECHNOLOGY

Management Challenges & Use of Internet Technology

Introduction

According to the Constitutional Court, the email is in the same degree of privacy and inviolability of the post. Trade unions call for judges and law to adapt to new technological developments, the extension of the legal concept of "letter" in order to protect the right to confidentiality of communications. However, the use of Internet can be a double-edged sword, especially in the workplace in terms of time and money investment primarily intended for a single work activity.

Discussion and Analysis

Internet Use and Abuse

Recent reports on layoffs by using email in enterprises for the private use of employees have been relocated into question an old theme: the use of company resources for private purposes. Traditionally, the object of abuse was the phone, but the massive incorporation of new technologies of communication extends to email and browsing Web pages losses timely work. A study by consultancy Domeus shows that 74% of workers with email in the workplace use this system to send and receive private mail Browsing web pages is also a significant loss of working hours (Aral, 2007).

The Report Domeus

According to the survey by consultancy Domeus, the overwhelming majority of employees, 91.1%, defends his right to make private use of company email, although the 75.2% admit that in moderation, 72% believed that the company has no right to inspect email. The study reveals that:

A 52.9% of Spanish employees with Internet access spend less than 30 minutes a week managing their personal messages in the enterprise and the Web for private

Another confesses 37.1% spend between 30 minutes to an hour

Just a 4.8% is devoted to two hours of work per week.

Young people between 18 and 34 are the most frequent to use this type of communication, 55% of posts, most sent between friends. Another 13.7% are news or newsletters you subscribed to the Internet, 11% of this mail is data products and services and 7.3% are unwanted advertising messages (Bertschek, 2004).

Studies and Statistics

Any email account or Internet surfing can be traced easily by sniffers or "sniffers," which are programs that let you track all the information over TCP / IP or through the firewall, software that serves as a barrier Control over the Internet. Increasingly, specific Web pages created on the subject. The facts change little from one country to another.

In the United States, Congress passed and in 86 the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, a law that prohibits personal communications intercept, unless express consent of the worker or based on the activity of that the company.Meanwhile, in the UK, called Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 allows you to stop those who do not provide correct key messages interfered with. In October, would give carte blanche and complete freedom to control the Lawful Business Practices with the Regulations. The new legislation has generated spirited debate; confront both the right to privacy recognized in the European Convention on Human Rights and with ...