Corporate Espionage
“The growing corporate espionage activities due to intense competition lead to highly controlling security measures and intensive employee monitoring which bring about distrust in the workplace”
Part I .What I already know The reason I chose this topic is due to the fact that a class called human resources management which by the way is my major, once we discussed the topic of ethics the professor covered corporate espionage and determined it as a federal crime. Professor Valdivieso felt very passionately about this topic because his thesis was based on this area. He is a professional who I admire very much, and I was looking forward to developing a research paper on this topic. Day by day the news portrays crimes like assault, murder, etc. but rarely do we learn about industries committing corporate crimes for example price fixing or corporate espionage. Both this crimes are common yet because the massive amounts of money and very important prestigious people involved in most of the cases, the media and the government do not share with the community the real and darken side of the companies. From what I can recall corporate espionage arises when peer competitors are looking to improve their products and services or just to sabotage the launch of a competitor’s creation. Why should we be interested in this topic? Well to let you know corporate espionage or economic espionage affect the economy as a whole and is the reason for the majority of lay-offs around the world. Ethics is a key word when talking about business. Intellectual property stealing is a world-wide problem the fact that we as citizens should pay more attention to the “strategies” employed by governments and in our own businesses starts monitoring every move we can to make the employers clear and committed as possible. Part II. What I want to find out I am aware of the threats that economic espionage represent to the stability of a county and therefore its citizens.
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Part I .What I already know The reason I chose this topic is due to the fact that a class called human resources management which by the way is my major, once we discussed the topic of ethics the professor covered corporate espionage and determined it as a federal crime. Professor Valdivieso felt very passionately about this topic because his thesis was based on this area. He is a professional who I admire very much, and I was looking forward to developing a research paper on this topic. Day by day the news portrays crimes like assault, murder, etc. but rarely do we learn about industries committing corporate crimes for example price fixing or corporate espionage. Both this crimes are common yet because the massive amounts of money and very important prestigious people involved in most of the cases, the media and the government do not share with the community the real and darken side of the companies. From what I can recall corporate espionage arises when peer competitors are looking to improve their products and services or just to sabotage the launch of a competitor’s creation. Why should we be interested in this topic? Well to let you know corporate espionage or economic espionage affect the economy as a whole and is the reason for the majority of lay-offs around the world. Ethics is a key word when talking about business. Intellectual property stealing is a world-wide problem the fact that we as citizens should pay more attention to the “strategies” employed by governments and in our own businesses starts monitoring every move we can to make the employers clear and committed as possible. Part II. What I want to find out I am aware of the threats that economic espionage represent to the stability of a county and therefore its citizens.
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