Understanding Business
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ISBN: 9781259929434
Author: William Nickels
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Assume you are the HR Manager at Prosperity. Recently employees have been expressing concerns around the privacy of
employee information that is stored in the company’s HRIS. You have promised these employees that you will take up the
matter of employee information privacy with the Executive Committee.
Write an email to the Executive Committee in which you outline concerns around employee information privacy as it
relates to collection and storage in the company’s HRIS. Suggest ways in which Prosperity can protect employee
information privacy
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