Policy: July 2004 Archives

My professor posted the following guidelines for creating/evaluating an employee use policy.

Email and Internet Usage Policy

Implementation of sound, well-written policies helps manage risk by defining acceptable and unacceptable forms of behavior and educating employees as to the organization’s expectations concerning their behavior. Organizations can and should expect their employees to act ethically and the organization, as well as its employees, should expect to be accountable to society for their actions. On the positive side, good policies

encourage ethical behavior, and discourages criminal behavior,

encourage polite and civil communication,

encourage individual integrity and honesty,

encourage respect for others and their property,

protect the organization’s information infrastructure from danger, and

the risk of lawsuits.

Good policies also

discourage copyright infringement, software piracy, and plagiarism,

discourage slander, libel, defamation, and mendacity, and

discourage profanity, obscenity, pornography, and waste.

(See Kinnaman, D., Critiquing acceptable use policies. http://www.io.com/~kinnaman/aupessay.html)