Using MIS (10th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134606996
Author: David M. Kroenke, Randall J. Boyle
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 4.8, Problem 4.7ARQ
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Advantages and disadvantages of employees using mobile systems at work:
The advantages of the workers using mobile phone at work are as given below:
- The use of mobile phone at work saves the cost and time.
- It offers greater employee satisfaction because they choose the work based on their own preferences rather than organization.
- It needs less training with more productivity because workers are already using the mobile devices for their own use.
- It also minimizes the support costs.
The disadvantages of workers using the mobile phone at work are as given below:
- The use of mobile phone at work station may leads to data loss or damage.
- Organization may loss the control at the time of data which is brought from workers owned device and it also loss the control when updating the software.
- This control loss may leads to compatibility issues.
- These drawbacks may leads to maximize the support costs.
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device):
The increasing trend among business organizations are employee-owned devices to perform specific official tasks known as BYOD. Tablets, Smartphone and laptops are the common example of BYOD.
BYOD policy:
The BYOD policy is a statement regarding permissions and responsibilities of workers when they utilize their own mobile device for business purpose.
List of BYOD policies:
The six BYOD policies are listed below:
- They don’t exit
- We’ll be a coffee shop
- We’ll offer limited systems you can access from any device
- You’re responsible for damage
- We’ll check it out, reload software, then manage remotely
- If you connect it, we own it
Compare the six policies with their functionalities and organizational control:
| BYOD Policy | Functionality | Organizational control |
| They don’t exit | This policy does not provides any functionality | This policy does not provide any control to organization. So the control is low. |
| We’ll be a coffee shop | This policy uses wireless network to access to internet for business. | This policy does not provide any control to organization. So the control is low... |
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Using MIS (10th Edition)
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