Read Case 3.1: Big Brother at Proctor & Gamble. Answer the following questions and submit the completed assignment to you instructor.
a. Was P&G justified in investigating its own employees in order to find the source of a suspected leak? Do you agree with Artz that a company has a right to protect its secrets? Does this right depend on the kind of information that a company seeks to protect.
b. If P&G had a right to investigate, is there a limit to the steps it can take? Suppose P&G had searched only the company’s own telephone records or confined its search to the home telephone records of P&G employees. Would the company have kept within permissible limits?
c. Were the rights of Cincinnati-area residents violated by the check of their telephone records? How would you feel if your own telephone records were checked in this way?
