Organizational Philosophies and Technology A company can control the ethical behavior of their employees through technology. Integrity and professionalism, along with the quality of service to its customers, are what help mold the reputation of a company. Corporate management never needs to be present at the physical location to know whether their employees are following standards or guidelines. The type of ethics a company dictates models the type of culture and environment it chooses to exemplify. Technology is becoming so advanced, companies allow their systems to eliminate incompatible applicants instead of an actual person in their human resources department. Technology is how companies are receiving more production with less manual labor. Email, phone calls, web surfing, and surveillance cameras are all ways companies use to manage the ethical behavior of their employees and implement guidelines. They can pull an email containing inappropriate content before it reaches the intended recipient or prevent employees from surfing the web of unacceptable websites. Employees are restricted from playing games on business computers as well. Companies have ways of monitoring and programming their business computers to where only websites and contacts for that particular network may be access from their systems. They also program the computers to notify a higher person of authority when an employee performs an unauthorized transaction on the system. In a business with direct customer service, timers installed help monitor and keep track of the amount of time employees take to service customers. Without timers, employees would not be concerned about the amount of time taken to service customers. Sense of urgency would not be a priority. A company cannot know everything that a potential employee is capable of when hiring them. Only so much information is