Management and Organizational Behavior Answer the questions in essay format. You

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Management and Organizational Behavior

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1. Review the Legal/Ethical Challenge on page 375 of the text. Select your response from the choices 1-4 regarding the issue of how employers should address the use by employees of social media related to their organization. Defend and explain your reasoning.

LEGAL/ETHICAL CHALLENGE Should Employers Monitor Employees' Social Media Activity? There are at least two sides to the question whether n support of employee privacy. somie argue that sc employers should monitor employees' social media cial media monitoring often becomes a malicious fish use. Employees have a right to the privacy of what ing expedition, a disguised means of uncermirting or they say, to whom, when, and through which channels even terminating employees inappropriately, such as face-to-face, phone, or social media). Employers must to settle perscnal grudges. Employees also have been Iso "be vigilant about ensuring that empioyees are fired for pasting non-work related conternt such as re- not disclosing confidential or proprietary information ligious or palitical views or bikini contests. Privacy ad through social media, or using It to harass olher em- vocates olten concede that companles might be otherwise unlawful conduct" justifed in snocoing if they have a legitimate reason to do so, such as genuine suspicion of inappropriate con- Nancy duct. But even in these instances, they argue that it is appropriate to investigate only what employees do on ompany computers and netwarks, not their use of ployces or engage in unlawful ays employrnent law attorney Christin Choi135 Bolstering the argument for manitoring, Flynn, director of the ePolicy Institute, says It's all too easy for cisgruntled or tone-deaf employees to go on to social media and criticizc customers, harass subordinates, and othe misbehave. Sometimes that can bring workplace tensions and complaints, sometimes it can cdamage Employer, What Would You Do? a comparny's reputation in the marketplace, anc sometimes it can lead all the way to lawsuits or regulatory action." personal devices and If You Made Social Media Policy at Your personal accounts.10 I rwise 1. Monitor all employees. Justify 2. Never monitor employees. Justify 3. Manitor selectively. Specify the conditions under which you would monitor, which employees which devices, and with what frequency Consistent monitoring enables companies to catch roblems early, get undesirable information off-line quickly, begin damage control, and promptly cliscipline employees 4. Invent other options and explain.

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Below is what I do if I made social media policy at my employer or workplace -

Answer is option 4 - Invent other options.

The best option to implement the social media policy at workplace is -

To ensure that the employees follow the guidelines of the firm and avoid badmouthing on the social media about the firm and its customers/clients. Though the firm doesn't monitor the social media activity of the employees as such, it does monitor any negative feedbacks or mudslinging activities that they encounter on social media and if the person who does the same happens to be an employee, there would be punitive actions to be taken against the employee depending on the impact of his/her posts on the firm and its image.

By setting the expectations upfront, employees would be bound by the same as they are aware of the repercussions of their behavior and conduct on social media.

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