Probing social media harassment: How firms can effectively investigate the bullies
Human Resource Management International Digest
ISSN: 0967-0734
Article publication date: 13 June 2016
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the process of investigation of employee harassment via social media to develop best practices to help organizations conduct such investigations more effectively.
Design/methodology/approach
It reviews the technical, managerial and legal literature to develop guidance for organizations conducting investigations of employee harassment via social media.
Findings
Organizations may not have effective procedures for the investigation of social media misuse, in general, and employee harassment via social media, in particular. This paper provides guidance for organizations to conduct investigation of employee harassment via social media more effectively.
Originality/value
The paper consolidates the fragmented discussion of investigation of social media misuse with regard to employee harassment via a literature review across technical, managerial and legal disciplines. The paper provides guidance to support organizations for conducting investigations of employee harassment via social media more effectively.
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Acknowledgements
Retraction notice
The Publisher wishes to retract the precis article “Probing social media harassment: How firms can effectively investigate the bullies”, published in Human Resource Management International Digest, Vol. 24 No. 4, 2016. It has come to the attention of Emerald Publishing that this precis article contains large sections of unattributed text taken from the original research article “Investigating employee harassment via social media”, by Mark Taylor, John Haggerty, David Gresty, Natalia Criado Pacheco, Tom Berry, Peter Almond, published in Journal of Systems and Information Technology, Vol. 17 No. 4, 2015.
Precis articles are intended to summarise original academic research articles for a different audience, and should not include verbatim passages from the original articles. This error occurred due to a miscommunication in the commissioning process.
To avoid any repeated incidents of this nature, Emerald has fully revised its guidelines and briefed its Commissioning Editors. Human Resource Management International Digest sincerely apologises to the original authors and its readers for this error. The original article can be viewed here: 10.1108/JSIT-03-2015-0022.
Citation
Beal, B. (2016), "Probing social media harassment: How firms can effectively investigate the bullies", Human Resource Management International Digest, Vol. 24 No. 4, pp. 8-10. https://doi.org/10.1108/HRMID-03-2016-0034
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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