Since September 11th, the issue of security has been increasingly of
concern, not just to individual persons, but also to the federal
government, as well as private retail and industrial organizations.
However, while all of these respective organizations may wish to be safe,
quite often retail and industrial organizations have different budgetary
concerns that affect their risk management analysis of what technical
security measures to deploy, and also in their risk management assetsâ€"as
in, their analysis of what risky and dangerous behaviors their own
employees may be most particularly apt to engage in. Retail organizations
will almost always, by organizational necessity, promote profit making as
its main security and financial concern, in contrast to the federal
government's desire to protect the integrity of the nation over profit
making. Industrial organizations and service-based industries from
hospitals to schools may fall in between these two security concerns,
hoping to both protect the public, protect and screen employees, and also
For instance, industrial organizations, when engaging in internal
investigations into employee conduct, usually decide such behavior merits
investigation when it is against company and also against government
policy, such as in regards to sexual harassment law that violate other
employee's sense of personal integrity. Companies do not wish to be found
legally in violation of such statutes. Employee policy is thus subject to
discipline as defined in employers' codes of conduct. Transgressing policy
may also be defined in collective bargaining agreements within corporate as
well as within public legal structures.
Thus negative employee behavior may be legally undefined and left to
the employer's discretion at the time the conduct occurs. Obvious types of
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