Employee Monitoring



Employee Monitoring

Introduction

Privacy can be regarded as a privilege, and therefore as an essential right or interest to be impartial against others. Privacy in an organization is about providing the employee's the right to private space and to manage their private information with the employer's right to supervise the workplace and make effective assessment and decisions. In some cases, gathering of information about employees can sometimes concentrate on improper information or some unreasonable methods could be used by the employers. However, the employer has the right to know the information about the employees as much as possible. This is the reason why the employers monitor their employees. There are different ways in which the employee monitoring can be done. Today's technology has blurred the concern, as it allows using of never considered before methods to access information.

Ethical Issues of Employee Monitoring and its Impact

The employer has to monitor the employees of the organization because of the law, as an employer is responsible for its employees' acts, which is why the employers look for maximum amount for data they can access of their employees to guard themselves from any liabilities. On However, researching the areas that have insignificant importance to the individual's abilities to do work tasks is exposing the employees' privacy (Alder et al, 2008). The arrival of new technology led to the emergence of new ethical issues because we regard the technology progress and don't consider the implications. Despite the problems associated with the different areas of the company process, now we have ethics problems that have never been faced previously. For instance, the rule does not essentially deal with the new challenges like the implication of latest technologies in respect to the distinction caused between the use of work and personal use of technology, the variables of time ...