week 2

1. Do employees behave differently in a flat versus a hierarchical organizational structure? Explain your answer.

2. Do employee personality types differ between hierarchical and flat organizations?

3. What is difficult about policy implementation in a flat organization? What is difficult about policy implementation in a hierarchical organization?

4. How do you overcome employee apathy toward policy compliance?

5. Create a policy framework implementation plan for the fictional Specialty Medical Clinic (the plan should not be longer than two pages). The Specialty Medical Clinic is being acquired by a larger parent organization under HIPAA compliance law. The parent organization is a hierarchical structure with multiple departments and clinics. The medical clinic is a flat organization. Following is an outline of those areas of the plan you need to include:

Parent Medical Clinic

Acquires Specialty Medical Clinic

Publish Your Policies for the New Clinic

{Explain your strategy.}

Communicate Your Policies to the New Clinic Employees

{How are you going to do this?}

Involve Human Resources and Executive Management

{How do you do this smoothly?}

Incorporate Security Awareness and Training for the New Clinic

{How can you make this fun and engaging?}

Release a Monthly Organization-Wide Newsletter for All

{How can you make this newsletter succinct?}

Implement Security Reminders on System Logon Screens for All

{This is for access to sensitive systems only.}

Incorporate Ongoing Security Policy Maintenance for All

{Review and obtain feedback from employees and policy-compliance monitoring.}

Obtain Employee Questions or Feedback for Policy Board

{Review and incorporate into policy edits and changes as needed.}