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Social media is at the core of digital transformations in organizations. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social media platforms widen the scope for rapid and effective communication with stakeholders. They also create a range of new and challenging ethical dilemmas.
This open access book categorizes the dilemmas organizations across a range of industries can face when they implement social media to communicate with stakeholders. This book provides a systematic framework for analyzing these ethical dilemmas in social media using the Navigation Wheel. This tool leads the decision-maker through a series of considerations such as legal questions, corporate identity, morality, reputation, and ethics. Finally, the author considers implications for leaders and presents potential solutions to these dilemmas.
Based on five years of original research with 250 executive students at a European business school, all of whom work with social media communications in their organizations, this book is the first major study to explore the ethical use of social media across industries and is a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners alike.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Digital dilemmas in organizations .- 2. Dilemmas in social media: A categorization .- 3. Ethical navigation in social media .- 4. Chapter 4: Leadership and social media.
About the author
Øyvind Kvalnes is Associate Professor in the Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour at BI Norwegian Business School, Norway. He has facilitated moral reasoning sessions in a range of organizations in the private and public sectors. Author of
Fallibility at Work and
Moral Reasoning at Work (both published by Palgrave Macmillan), Øyvind's main research interests are in ethics, moral psychology, leadership, and excellence in organizations.
