Lesikar's Business Communication: Connecting in a Digital World 13th Edition by Kathryn Rentz,Paula Lentz

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Assume that you are the ___ (you choose the supervisory position) of a small ___ (you choose the type) company or department. More and more, you've noticed, when walking past employees' cubicles and offices, that a social networking site such as Facebook, MySpace, or LinkedIn is up on the screen. You've read some articles pointing out that social networking on the job can be quite a drain on employees' productivity, and you worry that this is happening in your company (have you noticed any lapse in performance lately?). You think the time has come to send an email to the employees advising them to limit their use of social networking on the job.
The thing is, you know that social networking does also bring certain company benefits. You don't want to have the IT person block or monitor the use of social networking sites, nor do you want a strict policy that will actually be counterproductive. So you're going to try to get people to monitor themselves.
Think carefully about what you want the employees to do and why (for example, instead of doing social networking, what should they be doing?). Then write the message that will get them to change their behavior.