Reference no: EM132218795 , Length: 1000 Words
Assignment -
Scenario - You have been asked by ABC Education, a medium-sized private education college to investigate their existing copyright, privacy and ethics policies to ensure they are both compliant with relevant legislation and are also consistent with the aspirations of ABC Education to be an employer of choice and a destination of choice for students. The CEO has become concerned about this policies as she has recently found that there are only informal practices, rather than formal policies, in place in the organisation at present, and would like your advice on how formal privacy, ethics, and copyright policies could be implemented in ABC Education.
The CEO has also given you a list of organisational principles and practices that the ethics, privacy and copyright policies need to be consistent with. (See ABC Education - About Us in Learner Resources). You need to treat this document as a constraint and a guide as to what forms the final ethics, privacy, and copyright policies will take.
Instructions - Your task is to prepare a report for the CEO outlining to her what these policies need to address, and how the policies could be implemented. In particular, your report should address the following elements (at a minimum):
- What an organisational copyright policy needs to address, how it could be made consistent with organisational practices, and what legislation it needs to be compliant with (examples/specifics should be provided)
- What an organisational privacy policy needs to address, and what legislation it needs to be compliant with (examples/specifics should be provided)
- What an organisational ethics policy needs to address (examples/specifics should be provided)
- How the proposed copyright, ethics and copyright policies can be distributed to stakeholders, who those stakeholders might be, and how the feedback from stakeholders could be captured
- How privacy-related considerations such as information confidentiality, security, integrity and availability of information can be addressed by IT systems
- How any applicable proprietary rights of stakeholders will be maintained
- How any impact the new privacy, ethics and copyright policies will have on existing work practices will be determined
- What organisational processes could be put in place for various organisational stakeholders to support the policies e.g. to enable employees to report popicy violations, customers/students to report customer service that is inconsistent with company policies etc. You should also explain why these processes are necessary to support the policies e.g. meet reasonable expectations of stakeholders about organisational conduct, customer service etc
Resources - To help you write the report, you should consult the lecture materials as well as some of the other material in Learner Resources, such as sample copyright policies, ethics policies and privacy policies. There is also a report template to help you structure your report.