Chapter 4.8, Problem 4.7ARQ

Explanation of Solution

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...