Debate the proposition that employers are more concerned with controlling employee behaviour than they are with eliciting employee commitment.

Unauthorized surveillance is a violation of privacy. Corporations insist that the use of video monitoring is strictly documented for legal purposes. What many companies fail to do is give handouts that clearly inform their employees and customers that such methods are being practiced and most don't even attempt to inform them. Some retail stores place security cameras in dressing rooms, monitor emails and even inspect online activity. Upon learning of these procedures, employees may feel violated, and customers may become nervous and uncomfortable. Word of these tactics can spread and prove detrimental to the organization. To avoid this,

Employees trust that the employer has the obligations to facilitate them the following: career advancement, incremental salary, salary based on the current working efficiency, upgrading, safe long-term employment, opportunities to build their career as well as support in case personal problems occur (Mario, Sandra and Dr. Ljiljana 2010, 233). On the other hand, the employees believe that they have the following obligations towards their employer: working overtime, staying loyal, taking initiative to take up new responsibilities at work, providing a beforehand notice when taking another position, be ready for transfer, rejecting support to rivalry, protecting confidential company information, spending a minimum of two years doing the routine (Mario, Sandra and Dr. Ljiljana 2010, 233).

" Few would deny the importance of deploying surveillance technologies to watch out for risks of theft, fraud,

It creates something called Worker Stress which makes your employees not perform as well as they could because of the fact that they know that they are being “watched”. This type of overbearing causes some people to quit their job and look elsewhere for money making opportunities (McDunnigan 1). It makes the staff nervous and unsure of almost every decision they make because they think that it has to be perfect. Surveillance may also send negative vibes towards the hired hands causing trust issues. Over all, it just makes an awkward

Todd (2012) has interviewed employer association representatives and examined their public statements and submissions. From her research, she questions whether the changes to the industrial relations system that employer associations advocate would enhance productivity. With regard to issues such as penalty rates and job security, there is evidence that these relate to cost cutting and enhanced managerial prerogative rather than productivity. Discuss

Employees are required to use the department’s thumbprint scanner to clock in and out. Human resource

Businesses putting in cameras and monitoring computers are not uncommon now a days. Observing the work area and its employees allows employers to find out who works and who doesn 't. Well-placed cameras and software helps companies detect and identify any employees who may be stealing company property or slacking off on work computers. A 2005 survey by the American Management Association showed that more than half of the employers use video surveillance at work to counter theft, violence, or sabotage (AMA 2010). And 16% of the employers surveyed used video surveillance to monitor employee performance (AMA 2010). When talking about property damage, having the surveillance cameras monitored by security personnel greatly increases the chance of catching anyone misusing or stealing company

What's interesting about fingerprint time clock software is how they first started using this technology to keep top secret military bases secure. If you didn't have the right fingerprint, you weren't getting in. It worked for the military, and this technology can

Possibly the technological feature creating the most controversy is surveillance cameras. What is seemingly there for public safety could also inhibit safety by exposing the public’s private life. Every move made under the hawk-like vision of the camera is observed and judged by someone sitting behind the scenes. Women risk being stalked by sexual predators, and assailants have been known to memorize the schedule of a subject in order to time the perfect attack (Stead). “Bad cops” may gain insight to a personal life that allows for the watcher to blackmail the victim. In recent studies it has been proven that an increase in surveillance cameras does not decrease the crime rate; it

Organizational commitment is one of the two individual outcomes derived from individual mechanisms like job satisfaction, stress, motivation, trust, justice, ethics, and learning and decision making. These mechanisms and outcomes can be found on the integrative model of organizational behavior (OB). Colquitt, LePine, and Wesson defined organizational commitment in their Organizational Behavior 5th Edition book as the desire of an employee to remain a member of the organization (p 64).

Workplace surveillance has become a controversial issue in the workplace environment. The technological surveillance has developed as a necessity, it doesn’t only help in monitoring what the workers’ do, but it also helps to know how they do it. The modern technological development may have helped the employers’ to have an aerial view of the workplace environment, but it has created a controversy between the employees’ and the employer about the employees’ right to privacy being violated. The employees’ believe the act of workplace surveillance to be hateful that violates their right to privacy and liberties. The surveillance at the workplace often effects workers mental health, productivity, future success in their work and their relationship with the employer, despite being a necessity for the employers’ to protect themselves against the liability, many employers’ in the process of achieving efficiency through surveillance mistakenly ruin their relationship with their employees. The workplace surveillance is helpful in improving the performance of workers or it is contributing towards degrading the performance of workers and their work relationships.

Furthermore, Misuse of CCTV surveillance is not limited; Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes revealed his office opened 783 formal complaints during 2010, with more than 400 cases related to data security breaches. This is how day by day use of CCTV is increasing and misuse of it is also increasing so it will be better to reduce usage of this CCTV. There are so many issue in more developed countries due to high use of surveillance technology An article title of BBC new on 6 December 2005 “CCTV staff 'spied on naked woman'” Two council workers used CCTV

Richard E. Walton’s article “From control to commitment in the workplace” is a groundbreaking work which advocates that managers evolve from using the control strategy to ultimately adopting the commitment strategy. The discussion below considers his description of a control organization by looking at a case study. The case study which will be put under the microscope for the discussion focuses on developments which have led to degradation in how the workforce is managed at the Slade Company. By highlighting elements of their approach used to manage employees, and then providing examples, it will be clear that control strategy was being used. Further, an examination of defects in the implementation of the

Electronic monitoring makes it possible for employers to monitor the activities of their employees continuously and secretly. Although electronic monitoring includes a wide range of practices, three general categories dominate computer-based monitoring, telephone call, accounting and service observation; and video surveillance.

Surveillance cameras in banks, offices, shops and streets have been very successful in reducing crime in the workplace and in public, but they are also a tool for their users to spy on people's private business.