ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE OF EMPLOYEES

Electronic Surveillance of Employees

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Electronic Surveillance of Employees

Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace.

The video cameras can be hidden or not. They pursue the goal to protect the employer's business only against intruders, but also against their own employees. Privacy protection and labor relations can be derived from two fundamental principles that should be account the employer prior to installing surveillance cameras on the premises of the company: the principle of need and the obligation of the employer, to assess the degree of intrusion into the privacy of your employee. For example, without being very wrong, we can say that an employer may be entitled to install video surveillance equipment in his shop if the installed cameras are placed near various entrances to the company. This facility would allow the employer to protect their sudden intrusion establishment or, as is the case, allow information to reconstruct relevant have been recorded. Also, the employer may want to protect their employees, or of the public entrances and exits near the safe. For this employer, installing of close cameras and monitoring of the sound company is paramount, but essential importance for guard against theft (Hlotyak, 2000).

Although the employer may install surveillance cameras in the establishment of the company to increase your safety when necessary, should not be inferred that can be installed cameras in any place and circumstance. In fact, the installation of surveillance cameras must meet only one criterion of necessity, but when installed, the employer should minimize its intrusion into the privacy of its employees. For example, the employer would not be justified in placing cameras directly in the direction of their employees when they are working. An employer must take into account, as a rule, that no surveillance cameras should be used to investigate the quality and work performance of employees. However, if the employer has serious reasons to believe that an employee will commit a crime or is about to doing it, probably would be entitled to install surveillance cameras that go directly to this employee on a temporary basis.

Explain whether it makes a difference if an employee is in an open area or an enclosed office.

Even most workers do not pay attention for electronic observer. Some even like it, and they admit that they prefer electronic monitoring to all other methods of assessing their work. Psychologists have found that the reaction of an employee on an electronic monitoring depends on the purpose for which primarily uses the data collected in this way. In situations where the information is used to help workers upgrade their skills (and not in order, for example, to punish too many breaks), most of them are in favor of electronic monitoring. Many workers have a positive attitude to this modern method of assessing the impact of labor, because it gives them confidence in its objectivity: the result of evaluation is not dependent on sympathetic to their manager for HR and training or ...