Company Cell Phone Policies Discussion 4

1) Make sure you have carefully read Chapters 4 & 5 in your text.

2) Begin by reading the following scenario:

Two health care organizations have recently merged. The parent organization is a large medical clinic that is HIPAA compliant. The clinic recently acquired a remote medical clinic that provides a specialty service. The remote clinic is organized in a flat structure, but the parent organization is organized in a hierarchical structure with many departments and medical clinics. These organizations are in the process of aligning their operations. You are asked to make major refinements to the organization’s cell phone use policy immediately.

3) Research examples of cell phone policies and implementation. Write a report citing examples of at least three successful cell phone policy implementations found in your research. Indicate how you would analyze your organization, and then how you would identify and finalize a cell phone use policy for the organization. In addition, provide a rationale as to what types of business challenges would be overcome or enhanced.

Submission Requirements

Format: Use Microsoft Word to compile your report. Please name your file in the following format: lastname_firstname_LabPaper1.docx

Font: Arial or Times New Roman, 12-Point, Double-Space

Citation Style: APA

Number of Citations: At least 2 (your textbook can count as a resource)

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

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The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.