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Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal

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01.06.2011

Legal and Ethical Implications of Corporate Social Networks

verfasst von: Gundars Kaupins, Susan Park

Erschienen in: Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal | Ausgabe 2/2011

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Corporate social networking sites provide employees and employers with considerable opportunity to share information and become friends. Unfortunately, American and international laws do not directly address social networking site usage. The National Labor Relations Act, civil rights laws, and various common law doctrines such as employment at-will and defamation provide the pattern for future social networking laws. Ethical considerations such as productivity, security, goodwill, privacy, accuracy, and discipline fairness also affect future laws. Corporate policies on corporate social networking should balance the employer’s and employee’s interests. Existing laws and ethical issues associated with social networking should impact social networking policies related to configuration, communication, discipline, and evaluation of policies. Corporate social networking policies should be business-related, ensure user notification of monitoring, maintain adequate records, and provide for reliable, consistent, and impersonal evaluation of monitoring effectiveness.

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Titel: Legal and Ethical Implications of Corporate Social Networks
verfasst von: Gundars Kaupins
Susan Park
Publikationsdatum: 01.06.2011
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal / Ausgabe 2/2011
Print ISSN: 0892-7545
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-3378
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10672-010-9149-8

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