Assignment: Developing an Organization-Wide Policy Framework Implementation Plan

Overview

In this lab, you identified human nature and behaviors in hierarchical and flat organizations, you found ways to ensure employees overcome apathy related to security awareness, you identified how security policies shape organizational behaviors and culture, you compared hierarchical and flat organizational structures, and you created an organizational policy implementation plan for a combined organizational structure.

Lab Assessment Questions & Answers

1. What are the differences between flat and hierarchical organizations?

2. Do employees behave differently in a flat versus a hierarchical organizational structure? Explain your answer.

3. Do employee personality types differ between hierarchical and flat organizations?

4. What is difficult about policy implementation in a flat organization?

5. What is difficult about policy implementation in a hierarchical organization?

6. How do you overcome employee apathy toward policy compliance?