Title: Describe how employee behavior outside the workplace can affect employment.
Course: Career Investigations (19258-9) > Section: Building Workplace Standards

Description should include the following:

- An individual represents his or her employer, whether he or she is on the job or not.
- An individual must maintain ethical and professional standards at all times, even when participating on social networking sites, because others will connect individual behaviors to the standards of his or her employer.
- An individual who fails to meet ethical standards at any time is subject to employment termination.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What does it mean for an employee to be ethical?
- How might your employer influence the way you communicate on social networking sites?
- How can positive contributions to your community affect your employment?