Strict Labor Practices

Read the Ethical Dimension, #9 on page 269. Answer both questions and discuss with your classmates.

The Ethical Dimension #9 the chapter discussed some of Henry Ford’s strict labor practices that caused such high turnover. Workers were not allowed to talk on the production line, for example, and he employed detectives to spy on them when they were at home.

1. What limits should be placed on a company’s right to monitor and control its employees from an ethical perspective?

2. What moral rules would you create to help managers decide when, and which actions and behaviors, they have a right to influence and control