When employees are asked to create documents or presentations for work, generally the workplace considers those documents to be property of the organization. However, if a worker creates something or researches something on his or her own for work, where does ownership lie?

Do some research in your current job or in the career you are planning to determine how ownership is generally handled.

Write a policy for your workplace that makes clear the ethics implications and expectations for ownership of writing by employees. Your policy should be directed to the whole company.

Explain the implications for an employee who is assigned a writing project and for an employee who develops materials to promote his or her ideas as an unassigned work task.