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Your firm is implementing a new comprehensive policy on smoking. Employees who smoke are encouraged to quit and offered assistance in doing so in the form of seminars and counseling. In practice, under this policy smokers are regularly visited in their work areas by counselors who urge them to quit. In addition, non-smoker employees are encouraged to report colleagues who smoke to the counselors, so that the counselors can keep an accurate count of smokers in the organization.Clearly the company is trying to ensure the long-term health of its employees, but has it gone too far? Why or why not? What are some of the factors that might be motivating such a policy?
Does an organization have the right, let alone the responsibility, to try to shape its employees' behaviors in this way? Your firm is implementing a new comprehensive policy on smoking. Employees who smoke are encouraged to quit and offered assistance in doing so in the form of seminars and counseling. In practice, under this policy smokers are regularly visited in their work areas by counselors who urge them to quit. In addition, non-smoker employees are encouraged to report colleagues who smoke to the counselors, so that the counselors can keep an accurate count of smokers in the organization.
Clearly the company is trying to ensure the long-term health of its employees, but has it gone too far? Why or why not? What are some of the factors that might be motivating such a policy?
Does an organization have the right, let alone the responsibility, to try to shape its employees' behaviors in this way?
Explanation / Answer
Yes, the company has gone a bit far because of the two thing sthat they did-
1. Report about colleagues- Because the employee has a good reason to believe that this creates a negative impression in front of his boss and his colleagues
2. Counselors visting them in their work areas- Disturbs the environment, work and the employee may think that he is being stalked.
This policy might be motivated by the following factors:
1. Employees may wish to quit smoking
2. The firm is assiting employees help quit smoking
No. No organization has the right to shape its' employees behavior untill and unless the employee has approached the firm or asked for support because they can't live with this habit or because their work is getting affected owing to this habit.
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