To be annoyed someone has lifted some of my work and used it in a presentation without at least asking?

This happened to me many years ago. I work in the NHS, also very niche role, only person in the (large) Trust doing this job. Really shocked to see my presentation being presented verbatim by a medical rep as her own work. Turned out a junior colleague from a different profession had sent it to her without my knowledge or permission.

MPs and more senior political leaders are not employed.
If they actually were employed, they could declare other work and a licence for a specific activity.
I'm not sure where you perceive links with someone who signed a standard contract with IP clauses stating that what they produce belongs to the employer?

they are hardly going to admit guilt unless absolute necessary ?

if everything belongs to the company then how the hell did margaret thatcher write her memoir?? or even, funnily enough, nicola sturgeon, who is in the process of doing the same but when in court, she cannot recall a damn thing????

surely there is a clear difference between

Making a presentation/doing it at work/sending out the slides afterwards to everyone - someone uses same thing a year later in the organisation - fairly normal, nice if they ask/mention to you its being used/any updates etc?

v

Working on something that is to be presented at some later point (so still draft/work in progress - may have some bits you KNOW are wrong/placeholders) and someone grabbing that off the server to use elsewhere without any checking.

The ownership of intellectual property created by an employee isn’t affected by the type of organization they work for.

Fair enough. I've never worked in the sort of organisation OP is describing.

Incorrect. Anything produced while an employee belongs to the company. Of course we use our previous skills and experience to inform what we produce. Good God.

I'd deliver the intended training and say something like

"Some of you may recognise the next few slides, if you attended xxx training.
I'm so pleased the subject we are discussing today is being made available across our Organisation. If you have any questions, just let me know"

For an assessment, yes, what is presented must be a student's own work. Obviously.

This is very clearly different.

I use charts from HMRC, quote blogs and articles no point writing your own if someone has already done the work.

Yes, this is correct. You cite where you have taken your source materials from. As in the organisation or paper. You don't cite "Sheila Brady who works at HMRC". Likewise, within an organisation, you don't cite the actual author of the slide 😂 - it's for everyone to use to the advantage of the company!

This is a very poor attitude, and you would not last in my organisation if you chose to behave like this. I would strongly encourage you to reconsider your approach, it is highly unprofessional.

Oh, ok but how are people credited then? I her manager isn't bothered, how can she say,' this is my work'?

They're not! I have genuinely never seen an individual credited for work they produce for an organisation. The organisation is credited/named as the source. Usually because many people will have contributed/shared/reused company materials for various purposes, as the OP's colleague has done.

Does the work actually belong to you though? Or did you produce this whilst being paid by the company? If so it is theirs and cam be used by the company for other purposes.

If you found your PhD thesis.being ripped off and used without crediting you it would be one situation, but if you produced this work for the company and they are re-usong it then it's fine

Incorrect.

Ethical standards in a workplace would be for information to be shared and reused.

It's really embarrassing that a number of posters have said, "think like a man, he'd create a huge fuss over this!" Mortifying and very much not true. It sounds like you have not been in the workforce before, or else worked in very junior roles.

Employees are there to do and get the best for the organisation. Full stop.

Mortifying.

You've misunderstood. Work produced by an employee at work belongs to the company. The copyright is theirs. OP was paid to produce it for them.

This is such a junior attitude, and NOT how senior women and men behave.

Oh my good God, do not do this, you loon!

It will make me more selective with what I share.

It's really not up to you, and this is a very immature attitude. If you have produced something while on work time, it belongs to work. You don't get to keep hold of it and not share it. Your time is paid for by work, you have produced it for work, and it is a workplace product.

Refusing to share work that you've been paid to create for your workplace would be a disciplinary matter in my organisation.

@Lex345 ah!! i have just read something about watermarks! easily removed in word but if you save the doc in pdf then they are far more difficult to remove so that would be the best way. just keep the original on your hard drive and share the pdf to the shared drive! I know how hard it is to change anything on pdf because I have tried on many occasions and failed!

thats understandable, just a gut feeling so to speak

Quite frankly, there's a load of nonsense being quoted about copyright & IP on this thread
To re-iterate some earlier posters, the work was produced by OP on company time, OP was paid for it by the company to create it & the IP and any copyright is owned by the company.

you/we have no way of knowing how much time spent on the work @Lex345 did, was wholly on company time, or partially - with some of the research effort done by the OP outside the time paid by the company. Their knowledge may come from numerous sources, and synthesised into the work done for the company but not wholly owned by them.

So you can't dismiss as nonsense the reference to IP and copyright, without having all the information - you're basing it on your assumption which may or may not be accurate.