Use of social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, myspace, LinkedIn, and other websites and applications, has exploded around the world, with hundreds of millions of people logging on. Employers are understandably concerned about how usage of social media can affect productivity, the ability to maintain confidentiality of intellectual property and other sensitive information, and the employer’s reputation. Thus, employers want to be careful to ensure that their employees understand how to use these media responsibly.

The hottest issue in workplace behavior

A well-written, effective social media usage policy sets forth the employer’s expectation for how employees may use social media in a manner that is consistent with the organization’s code of conduct and values. The policy should provide answers to specific questions and offer real-life examples.

The Ethical Leadership Group^TM, Global Compliance's team of nationally-recognized expert advisors, have unmatched experience in the assessment and development of workplace ethics policies that add organizational value because they are consistent with the clients’ values and executed in a way that employees can believe and understand them.

• Review and assessment of your existing policy to determine adequacy and alignment with your practices and realistic expectations
• Updating of your existing policy to ensure effectiveness and comprehensiveness for all levels of employees and stakeholders
• Development of a new policy to define organizational values, policies and expected behavior

Share your social media policy with employees. Measure its effectiveness.

Once your Social Media policy is developed, Global Compliance offers a range of Awareness tools to distribute it to your employees and other key stakeholders such as vendors and agents.  Awareness is key for understanding and retention and, ultimately, for impacting behavior.  Global Compliance also provides Certification solutions to verify your policy’s effectiveness by documenting receipt, understanding and intent to comply with the policy by all employees and relevant stakeholders.  Our Certification solutions also help to identify non-compliance so that your organization may document and review exceptions.

• Learn more about our Awareness Materials and Certification Programs.
• Learn about our Social Media and the Workplace training course.