In: Psychology
1. Briefly discuss the boundary between expressing an opinion and defamation.
2. Discuss methods other than filtering to prevent employees from inappropriate use of the Internet at work and whether the approach taken by a large company would be as successful at a small company.
3. Explain the main disadvantages of allowing employees at a given organization to create their own personal blogs to reach out to partners, customers, and other employees, and to improve their corporate image.
1. Expressing an opinion may be based on facts or a mix of facts and perspectives on which opinion is based whereas defamation is a false statement that negatively impacts the reputation of the other. Opinions are not defamatory.
2. Methods to prevent the employees from inappropriate use of internet at work, other than filtering:
These methods can be effectively taken by both large and small companies. Large companies need to make the instruction more reachable and stricter surveillance are needed . So, measures should be taken to intrinsically motivate them and make them aware of the ill effects of using internet inappropriately rather than completely relying on monitoring the employees.
3. Disadvantages of personal blogging can be: