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Product Description
Keep your workplace safe -- create a sensible technology policy with this all-in-one-guide.
Sixty-eight percent of employees in the U.S. have sent emails that exposed their company to risk, and more than 229 million records have been taken from stolen business laptops or hacked business websites since 2005. It is no wonder, then, that technology dangers consistently rank number one on the list of employers' concerns.
Every new device that promises to make our lives easier brings with it the risk of misuse -- whether accidental or intentional. That's why it's so important that any business that employs both people and computers create a safe and sensible policy for technologies in the workplace.
Smart Policies for Workplace Technologies provides the tools employers need to assess your current policies' effectiveness, along with information on how to draft or revise, then distribute and enforce your new customized policies.
Learn how to protect your business with a policy that addresses:
Trade secret protection
Customer, employer and employee privacy
Communicating with employees regarding privacy policy
Managing electronic documents and tools
Limiting liability for employee misconduct
Conserving company resources
Co-published with the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), Smart Policies for Workplace Technologies keeps your business safe, online and off.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #207138 in Books
- Published on: 2011-02-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 2
- Binding: Paperback
- 240 pages
Features
- ISBN13: 9781413313260
- Condition: New
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Editorial Reviews
From the Publisher
Create and execute the best technology policy for your workplace, from cell phones to the web.
About the Author
Guerin, an editor/author specializing in employment law, is author or co-author of several Nolo books, including The Manager's Legal Handbook, Dealing with Problem Employees, Nolo's Essential Guide to Federal Employment Laws, Workplace Investigations, Create Your Own Employee Handbook, and Nolo's Guide to California Law. Guerin has practiced employment law in government, public interest, and private practice where she represented clients at all levels of state and federal courts and in agency proceedings. She is a graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
By Daniel S. Boucher
Smart, creative and clever. This book is one that should be on every network admins desk.
Policies pulled together from from real-world work places that can be implemented without making it impossible to be able to function. Granted you can find most of this info spread throughout online, but this is a simple one-stop-shop for great work policies. The supporting documentation on CD makes printing and implementing a breeze.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
By Christine
This is an inexpensive resource that every office should purchase--even if you think you've covered everything, you will probably find another aspect to consider.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
By Rolando Muntz
Typical for a Nolo book, you get a well organized, more-than-a-layperson and less-than-a-lawyer view of the relevant issues. This is a review of the second edition of this book, published two years after the first, which includes an additional 20 pages. It starts with a general overview of why you might need such policies in the first place. The rest of the book coherently carves out the role of specific technologies in the workplace including e-mail, camera phones, and company social media sites. Chapter 7, "Company-sponsored Social Media," was extremely relevant as my organization has just established a Facebook site. This chapter is now must reading by our Facebook committee members.
All chapters include an overview of the specific technology, and its general and unique issues. This is followed by extended discussion with numerous examples. A sample policy is always listed at the end of each chapter. In my organization's case, most of the policies would be overkill. However, it's far easier to remove provisions you don't need, than to add ones you don't know exist. All of the sample policies are included on a CD-ROM and make excellent leaping off points for developing your own documents. Policies on the CD-ROM are in rich text format (rtf).
The chapters are liberally sprinkled with "Lessons from the Real World," examples of actual legal action relevant to a specific technology. For example, in Chapter 7 one can read about "Defamation in 140 Characters or Less" (page 144) where we are regaled with what the author claims may be "the first Twitter lawsuit." Courtney Love was served with legal papers for calling fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir "a prostitute, drug addict, and 'nasty lying hosebag thief.' " Indeed.
Copies of this book should probably go to the CEO, CIO, and head of HR. Also good for general reference collections in libraries.
This is a really tough subject area handled really well. Due to the ongoing changes in all things internetty I would expect to have to regularly buy new editions, or avail myself of the free legal updates posted at Nolo.com.
Note: This reviewer received a free copy of the book via LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program. This review has also been posted at the LibraryThing site.
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