4.6 Exercises
Individual Exercise
Reading and Responding to Employee Blogs
You found out that one employee from your company has created a blog about the company. Other current and ex-employees are also posting on this blog, and the picture they are painting is less than flattering. They are talking about their gripes, such as long work hours and below-market pay, and how the company’s products are not great compared to those of competitors. Worse, they are talking about the people in the company by name. There are a couple of postings mentioning you by name and calling you unfair and unreasonable.
- What action would you take when you learn the presence of this blog? Would you take action to stop this blogger? How?
- Would you do anything to learn the identity of the blogger? If you found out, what action would you take to have the employee disciplined?
- What would you change within the company to deal with this situation?
- Would you post on this blog? If so, under what name, and what comments would you post?
