Description:
In today’s Digital World, everything starting from Networking,
Product Promotion, niche recruitment etc happens via the Social
Media It has become an integral part of the Organisation these
days. The Impacts of social Media to HRM are that at the first
basic level the process of recruitment has changed. From
traditional hiring process, HR are actually using the social media
to find their preferences, ethics, behaviours and recruitment. Next
is the matter of copyrights , confidential and proprietary info
where there is a need to change their Policies to protect these
from being exploited by employees via the social media. As well as
the employee engagement policy needs to be fair and transparency as
anything negative has the chance of being exposed to the outside
world via the social media.
Some of the Social media Policies that can be implemented:
- Employees can disclose their affiliation with the company
granted that disclaimers are set freeing the company from any
intellectual investment in the post.
- Dishonorable content such as racial, ethnic, sexual, religious,
and physical disability slurs are not tolerated.
- Employees are not allowed to disclose information that are
financial, operational and legal in nature, as well as any
information that pertains to clients and customers.
- Employees are allowed to associate themselves with the company
when posting but they must clearly brand their online posts as
personal and purely their own. The company should not be held
liable for any repercussions the employees’ content may
generate.
- Content pertaining to sensitive company information
(particularly those found within Adidas internal networks) should
not be shared to the outside online community. Divulging
information like the company’s design plans, internal operations
and legal matters are prohibited.
- Proper copyright and reference laws should be observed by
employees when posting online.
- The company reserves the right to edit or amend any misleading
or inaccurate content depicted in blog posts. The company also
reserves the right to delete blog posts violating the code of
conduct.
- Principles of integrity, professionalism, privacy and
impartiality should be observed by journalists when posting
online.
- It is important for employees to properly define their
association with the publication as they would do offline.