Organisational Management

Ethics Dilemma: To Approve or Not

Students need to consider what happens when colleagues or even your boss wants to “friend” you on a social network site.  Is it okay to provide people you know in a professional sense a “window into your personal life”? What ethical issues might arise in such a situation?  As you know, in Chapter 3 (Learning Organization, Communication, and Motivation), the distinction is made between formal communication and informal communication.  Most people would see Facebook as informal communication.  Employees have the right to decline others access to their personal information on a social networking site, unless the site is dedicated for company use.