Briefly describe the company: year founded, mission statement, culture, principles, and leadership.
Describe the setting of the case, and a description of the issues or dilemmas at hand, please be specific. You can think of this section as the definition of the who, what, where, when, and how of the case.
State the company’s goal and any existing constraints. Consider in your analysis how corporate culture and environment, individual behavior, power and politics, conflict, job design, and group behavior factor into this section.
Potential Strategies for Issue Resolution: 35 points
Identify five possible organizational behavior strategies the corporation can use to address the privacy issues not just for Facebook users but also include in your analysis, strategies that the company can use to keep the cohesiveness of their employees intact and motivated during these uncertain times with all of the negative publicity the organization is receiving, and how to respond to governmental entities (foreign and domestic) who are impacted by this. In this section your analytical skills should be used. Generally, there are no right answers to case analyses. Your goal is to develop your critical thinking and problem-solving skills by utilizing the concepts/theories/methods as they apply to the issue at hand that have been discussed thus far in Chapters 1-13.
Strategy 1:
Discussion of the strategy, why it could be a successful resolution and list any potential negative outcomes, no negative outcomes is not an option.
Strategy 2:
Discussion of the strategy, why it will be a successful resolution and list any potential negative outcomes, no negative outcomes is not an option.
Strategy 3:
Discussion of the strategy, why it will be a successful resolution and list any potential negative outcomes, no negative outcomes is not an option.
Strategy 4:
Discussion of the strategy, why it will be a successful resolution and list any potential negative outcomes, no negative outcomes is not an option.
Strategy 5:
Discussion of the strategy, why it will be a successful resolution and list any potential negative outcomes, no negative outcomes is not an option.
Then address the following: (5 points)
1. What is your opinion regarding these online privacy issues. To what extent are you concerned about how your personal information on website, such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google is used? Explain.
2. Looking back at the section on political influence tactics in this chapter, which tactics did Facebooks CEO Mark Zuckerberg use after he changed the original terms of use in 2009? Describe.
3. Of the stakeholders listed in the last paragraph of the case, which group do you think is most powerful in terms of shaping the future direction of online privacy issues? Explain.
