Tui University

Jag Persaud

                                                Ethics

                                                ETH 501

                                Instructor Dr. Mark C.Friske

                                        March 14th 2011

        For this assignment, I chose to look at a company that I do not work

for but applied in the past at that company for a job. The name of that

company is Shell (the company that sells gasoline).

        In the employment I overviewed at Shell, one thing I didn’t like,

every bit of detail regarding not taking Shell’s information outside the

company in any case and in any form. However, to my amazement I

didn’t see any such clause or law in the employment of Shell that

assured the employee that his/her personal information will be used only

for the use of Shell only. It won’t be in any form and in any case be

provided to any other third party no matter if the third party is working   with or for Shell. (Privacy Clearing House, 2007).

        Moreover, in the employment agreement regarding the use of

Shell’s assets, whenever employees use Shell’s information or assets,

they are promptly informed, however, why don’t they   have a

clause to notify the employees and prompt them whenever they use

employees personal information and specify the cause for which they are

using it?(Shumaker, 2003).

        Also in their employee agreement again, I was surprised to see that

Shell has written down strict rules and regulations for their confidential

information and it’s going out of the organization, however, how would

anyone know what information do they consider confidential? They

have left that part of the clause open ended and this clause can be used

against an employee at any point in time or may be just at the right time

when he/she is no more needed at the company. (Genova, 2009).

        Moving on with the other part of the question, yes, there are... [continues]

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