15 research outputs found
Legal and Ethical Implications of Corporate Social Networks
Corporate social networking sites provide employees and employers with considerable opportunity to share information and become friends. Unfortunately, American 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 employerâs and employeeâs 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
Is there an app for that? A case study of the potentials and limitations of the participatory turn and networked publics for classical music audience engagement
The participatory turn, fuelled by discourses and rhetoric regarding social media, and in the
aftermath of the dot.com crash of the early 2000s, enrols to some extent an idea of being
able to deploy networks to achieve institutional aims. The arts and cultural sector in the UK,
in the face of funding cuts, has been keen to engage with such ideas in order to demonstrate
value for money; by improving the efficiency of their operations, improving their respective
audience experience and ultimately increasing audience size and engagement. Drawing on a
case study compiled via a collaborative research project with a UK-based symphony
orchestra (UKSO) we interrogate the potentials of social media engagement for audience
development work through participatory media and networked publics. We argue that the
literature related to mobile phones and applications (âappsâ) has focused primarily on
marketing for engagement where institutional contexts are concerned. In contrast, our
analysis elucidates the broader potentials and limitations of social-media-enabled apps for
audience development and engagement beyond a marketing paradigm. In the case of UKSO,
it appears that the technologically deterministic discourses often associated with institutional
enrolment of participatory media and networked publics may not necessarily apply due to
classical music culture. More generally, this work raises the contradictory nature of
networked publics and argues for increased critical engagement with the concept
âWhat About Us?â Exploring what it Means to be a Management Educator with Aspergerâs Syndrome
Very little is known on the subject of educators with Aspergerâs Syndrome (AS), and the available information pales in comparison to the enormous literature studying students with AS. In this article, Professor Gundy Kaupins shares his thoughts and experiences related to the issues educators with AS face and offers an alternative lens to see the advantages that having AS can bring to the management education classroom. Professor Kaupins also offers ideas for behavioral solutions and considerations for future research. We finish with a commentary on the individual and institutional issues pertaining to disclosure of âdifferencesâ and invisible disability in the university classroom