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• Unit 3
• Work and The Workplace

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• A guest worker program that provides seasonal and
  hard-to-find-labor is in the news.
• What are the pros and cons of such Program?

What is an H1-B Visa? Does anyone oppose it? Why?
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• A guest worker program that provides seasonal and
  hard-to-find-labor is in the news.
• What are the pros and cons of such Program?

H1-B Sponsors
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• How long do you spend answering e-mail everyday?
• Time Management

Pros Cons
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• Were you surprised to learn that there is no
  constitutional right to privacy at work?
• Things That Are Not In the U.S. Constitution
• Right to Privacy
• Privacy

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• National ID
• Biometrics Pinned to Social Security Cards

Are you in favor to have such ID? Why
Who is opposing it? Name them? Background
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• Brain Circulation
• How High-skill Immigration Makes Everyone Better
  off

New Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Transnational Entrepreneurship
A new Model of Globalization
A new Policy Environment
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• The New Face of the Silicon Age

What really Happens here? What happens to
American Programmers?
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• The New Face of the Silicon Age

Who is Jairam?
What does she do?
Where is the University of Pune?
What is the firms name?
According to the research firm Gartner, how many
white-collar job will depart U.S in the next 15
years? Equivalent to how much in US?
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• Computer Software Engineer

Significant Point
Nature of the Work
Working Conditions
Training, Other Qualifications, and advancement
Employment Job Outlook Earnings Related
Occupations
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• 14. The Computer Evolution

Computer and Workers 80s 70s

PC Diffusion and Wage Effects 1984-2001 82.3 -
2001 42.7 W/O
Implication Causal impacts Necessary
condition
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• 14. The Computer Evolution

Presentation Components of the Computer Unit

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• Making yourself Understood

In an age of technology, writing skills are more
important than ever.
Manager must increasingly rely on persuasion
and inspiration
The good, the Bad and the Ugly The power of the
pen
The rise of instant messaging suggests that worse
is to com. The new Language of Business The
return of the Punctuators
The power of Words The opportunity 12 Habits of
Effect Writers Writers block is a luxury that
executives cannot efford
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• Privacy, Legislative, and Surveillance Software

Protecting the corporation while respecting
employee privacy an old puzzle made more
complex with new software.
Workplace Privacy A The quality or state of
being apart from company or observation B
freedom from unauthorized intrusion ltones right
to privacygt.
Federal Privacy Legislation in the
workplace Result by AMA page 69 Table 1 52
monitored 22 have terminated an employee for
violation email policy
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• Privacy, Legislative, and Surveillance Software

Workplace monitoring has existed for a long time
in one form or another and will undoubtedly
continue to proliferate and become increasingly
sophisticated as technology advances.
Along with the ever-increasing exploitation of
technology in the workplace has become the
capability for employers to see and measure
nearly every aspect of company usages.
Company Electronic Communication
Policy Monitoring Software
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Negative and Positive Rights, or Liberties and
claim rights

• Negative Rights or Liberties, are rights to act
  without interference.
• Negative and Positive Rights
• They include right to live (no one can kill
  you), be free from assault, use your property,
  use your labor, skills, and mind to create goods
  and services and to trade with other people in
  voluntary exchanges. First Amendment of the U.S.
  Constitution, are negative rights.

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Negative and Positive Rights, or Liberties and
claim rights

• The (Negative) Right to access to Internet is so
  obvious in free countries that we do not even
  think of it, but communist countries, it is
  restricted or denied
• Claim rights or positive rights, impose an
  obligation on some people to provide certain
  things for others.
• A positive right to a job means that someone must
  hire you regardless

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Negative and Positive Rights, or Liberties and
claim rights

• A positive right to a job means that someone must
  hire you regardless of whether they voluntarily
  choose to, or that it is right, or obligatory,
  for the government to set up job programs for
  people who are out of work.
• Negative rights and positive rights often
  conflict.