Today's employers face the increasingly difficult challenge of needing to protect themselves from workers whose actions create legal liability and reduce productivity — without being accused of invading employee privacy and reducing employee morale.

In order to meet this challenge head-on, you need to enact and enforce privacy policies and practices that protect your organization...because you certainly can't afford:

• sexual harassment lawsuits spurred by dating among co-workers
• decreased productivity due to Internet surfing
• discrimination claims arising from offensive e-mail
• workplace accidents due to illegal drug use
• complaints of unfair treatment based on inconsistent enforcement of dress code policies
• employee resentment over computer monitoring.

But, what can you do? How far should you go to monitor your employees' actions?

Now you can find out what steps other employers are
taking to protect themselves with AHI's...

2005 SURVEY OF WORKPLACE PRIVACY POLICIES AND PRACTICES

The Alexander Hamilton Institute conducted a national survey of over 300 organizations to find out how they handle tough workplace privacy situations like: dating; drug testing; dress codes; electronic monitoring; and more. Now you can benchmark your organizations' policies and procedures against those of your peers.

You'll find a wealth of insightful analysis explaining the survey results and what they mean as well as the legal implications including:

13 Practical & Legal Pointers For Handling Workplace Dating Situations

18 Practical & Legal Pointers For Handling Dress Code Dilemmas

16 Practical & Legal Pointers For Approaching Workplace Search Issues

9 Practical & Legal Pointers For Evaluating Your Drug & Medical Testing Policies

15 Practical & Legal Pointers For Monitoring Employees' Use of Computers, E-mail,     And The Internet


DOZENS OF CHARTS AND GRAPHS
Crisp graphics bring the numbers to life to make it easier to judge where your company's current strategies fit in with your peers. Plus, you'll be able to use the charts to enhance your own efforts to get your points across to upper management or the employee workforce.

Great for presentations! When you download this report, you will also receive Microsoft Excel files containing the survey results which you can use to create a report for top management.

BENCHMARKS FOR YOUR BUSINESS SUCCESS
See how you stack up when it comes to
privacy-related policies and practices. You'll find out how your peers answered such key questions as:

• If you learned that a superior was dating a subordinate, would you transfer one of the   employees to eliminate any potential claims of favoritism?

• What kinds of monitoring techniques do you use to monitor employee use of the company's   electronic equipment?

• Do you have a policy that prevents employees from transferring confidential information from   their work computers to a portable device or through e-mail to a home computer without   express permission from management?

• Has an employee ever accused your organization's monitoring efforts of illegally invading   his/her privacy?

• If a drug test confirms that an employee is under the influence of illegal substances or   alcohol while on the clock, which company officials are notified?

MORE THAN JUST A SURVEY

Sample Policies
In addition to the survey results, this executive report provides sample policies you need to protect your organization from privacy-related lawsuits.

State Drug-Testing Laws Affecting Privacy
Recognizing that federal drug-testing law is rather limited in scope, many states have adopted their own drug-testing statutes. This report includes a summary of the intricacies of all applicable state and federal laws.