Question

You are the HR director of Brew421, Inc. a gourmet coffee retailer with 30 stores located throughout the Midwest. You oversee 15 stores and more than 200 employees and you've been asked to serve on a corporate task force assigned the responsibility of drafting a social media policy that addresses Brew421’s primary areas of concern. The following concerns were raised at task force meetings: • Customers ‘friending’ and ‘following’ employee’s social media accounts. Brew421 wishes to avoid liability for any posts made by its employees. Brew421 also wants to ensure maintain Brew421’s hard earned good reputation. • While Brew421 has strict policies prohibiting supervisors and subordinates from dating, there is nothing prohibiting coworkers from dating (and Brew421 doesn’t want to create a blanket policy prohibiting coworkers from dating). Brew421 wishes to avoid any liability for social media posts by employees that are romantically linked (or romantically severed). • Rumors have recently circulated that some Brew421 locations are considering unionizing. Brew421 wants to ensure that its social media policy does not amount to an unfair labor practice under the NLRA. In preparation for an upcoming task force meeting, prepare a paragraph (not less than 10 sentences) that addresses Brew421’s concerns. Special note: You do not need to re-invent the wheel for this assignment. A lot of great social media language is readily available on the internet and you are permitted to use it. However, be sure to tailor what you've located to the assignment set forth above - a simple copy and paste job will not do. Further, you must cite your sources.

Answer 1

Brew421, Inc quite produces to claim that the company has a workforce that is diverse and well equipped to deal with the different expectations and demands of the job as each employee is selected after the rigorous selection process. As this is the time of social media and wit has become an integral part of our lives, it is very important not only for us but also for the organization on how we behave and act on social media as it has a direct or indirect bearing on the image of the company. The company wants to ensure that all of its manpower become a responsible representative of the company on social media even in their private capacity. Thus, the company advises all the employees to act and behavior sensible and ethically on the different social media platforms and the company will not be directly or indirectly responsible for any unethical and illegal post made by the employee. It is advised to all the employees to uphold the high reputation of the firm on social media platforms.

It is quite evident that when we work in the office, we come in contact with others, and thus it is quite an obvious un having feelings with the coworkers and start dating them. The company does not have any objections in it but one must maintain the dignity and high values in this sort of activity. It has been noticed that some news was surfaced that some of the company locations are considering unionizing but it is to bring in the notice of all that the company’s social media policy does not amount to an unfair labor practice under the NLRA. So it is advised to all the employees follow the guidelines provided above to become a more ethical use of social medial platforms and also promote the high reputation of the organization.

Source=

Council, Forbes Human Resources (25 May 2017). "Why Your Business Needs A Social Media Polic