Technology now enables companies to monitor employees by measuring keystrokes, tracking the duration of calls, video surveillance, listening in on telephone calls, and even chairs that can measure worker wiggling (presuming that more wiggling means less working). When do electronic monitoring devices cross the line from being effective management control methods to being intrusions on employee privacy?

Technology now enables companies to monitor employees by measuring keystrokes, tracking the duration of calls, video surveillance, listening in on telephone calls, and even chairs that can measure worker wiggling (presuming that more wiggling means less working). When do electronic monitoring devices cross the line from being effective management control methods to being intrusions on employee privacy?

Principles of Management

OER 2019th Edition

ISBN:9780998625768

Author:OpenStax

Publisher:OpenStax

Chapter17: Organizational Planning And Controlling

Section17.5: Formal Organizational Planning In Practice

Problem 1Q: What ethical problems could surface with data mining as it applies to employee health records?

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