Academic literature on the topic 'Marketing harassment'

Business professionals take full advantage of micro-blogs and other social media platforms as powerful tools in recruiting and screening job candidates. In addition businesses aggressively monitor employees' social media use, both inside and outside the workplace, as employees actively use these platforms to both discuss work experiences and perform work duties. These monitoring practices seem warranted as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recognizes hiring practices, harassment, and off-duty conduct as the top three areas of conflict in the workplace. Much litigation and literature in this area focuses largely on employees' privacy rights; this chapter will take a more encompassing view and assert that having a strong corporate-wide social media policy in place can help strike an equitable balance between an employee's expectation of privacy and an employer's legitimate business interests in selecting ideal job candidates, managing its brand image, protecting the company's proprietary interests and assuring a harassment free workplace.

Informal organizations in education are those groups or unions that are spontaneously formed within the educational institutions by the members of staff, students and tradesmen for the realization of their identified goals. Those groups, in spite of their advantages, are chaotic and complex in nature as they are bound to bringing about frustration to the top or line mangers of the schools, encourage negativism, generate inter-personal and group rivalries, resist changes, cause harassment to certain employees, promote rumor mongering and promote dissatisfaction among employees. All of these deter the smooth operation and management of schools which if care is not properly taken may result to institutional entropy. The chapter puts forward some future trends for managing complexity of informal organizations by contending that, educational managers should employ approaches of cooptation, divide and rule, control of information, control of reward, displacement and control of meeting for the management of those groups.

With the rise in usage of social media, large quantities of data like pictures, videos, audio, and computer graphics are created. As the data is shared over the network, security and privacy become important concerns. Social networks are most popular and have become a medium for instant information sharing. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp are the most popular social networks. There has been extreme increase in the usage of audiovisual data over the social network. When multimedia data are stored in a networked environment, billions of users get connected to it for different purposes. The privacy challenges are personification, harassment, password sharing, location-oriented services, and privacy vs. marketing. The other challenges are data semantics, content management rights, and false information. There has been significant contribution by the researchers in development of security systems against these threats; still, the problems of clickjacking, short URL, phishing remain unresolved for some network architectures.