Chapter 12, Problem 2IR

Program Plan Intro

Given Information:

• Few policies are created for an employee to follow during social media participation.
• Intel policy is given that an employee requires to disclose his/her identity and company’s confidential information.
• Apple policy states that an employee requires to disclose from discussing company about their own websites and posting messages to the social media related to the company.

Corporate policies of “FORD” in participating social media:

• The first social media policy of ford is “Use your common sense”; the employees can add value in social conversation and they must keep it cool.
• Second policy is “Beware of privacy issues”, the employees should know how to use social media without any privacy problems.
• Third policy is “play nice and be honest”, the employee can perform any general operation like uploading and sharing only legal information and keep those information in private.

Corporate policies of “IBM”:

• The first policy says that the employees can be given clear guidelines about what cannot be shared and how the employees can communicate through social media.
• The second policy encourages the employees to express themselves to shine on social media by allowing them to share their new ideas and skills on social media.
• The third policy implies that the employees are allowed to share their concept via blogging and social media.

Explanation of Solution

Justification for the nature of policies:

• Consider the first policy of IBM, it indicates that the employee should share only the information which should not lead to any security issues.
• This can be considered as lenient policy as it allow the employees to share the information with others through social media in order to achieve company’s growth.
• Similarly, the same policy may be considered as too strict when the employee shares the confidential information as it could leads to a serious problem...

Explanation of Solution

Actions that are taken for an employee when they violate the policies:

• An employee can be notified by a formal written notification that an employee has violated from the rules and policies...

Explanation of Solution

The ways that policies differ among healthcare and education:

Policies in Health Care	Policies in Education
The healthcare policy is defined as planning, decisions and actions that are processed to achieve healthcare goals within a society.	Policies in education are defined as collections of rules and principles for governing education systems.
An employee working in a healthcare field is subjected to security issues in case of breaching patient’s information to other patients except doctors...