Scholarly article

• The Impact of E-Mail Communications on Organizational Life- This article describes some of the impact e-mail has made on organizational communications. You have likely never experienced a time without e-mail, so it's worth taking a look at this and trying to change your perspective. Many of the habits (some of which are counter-productive) are so ingrained that they have become the accepted standard for the medium. Should they be? Is there a better way?

This presents a dilemma for management; email is an extremely important tool, and it is also a huge distraction. It very easily intermingles personal and professional lives, and thus each intrudes into the other. And, even if you can separate personal and professional time, email is still a common distraction that interrupts productive work.

Essay: Using communication, behavior and management theory create some strategy for email policy.

• Define the problem
• Discuss relevant theory
• Build and support a policy
• Summarize purpose and expected outcome
• use at least 4 scholarly references