The Advantages and Disadvantages of Workplace Monitoring

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The advantages and disadvantages of workplace monitoring Have you ever watched a TV show called "Candid Camera"? It shows a bunch of people of who are been tricked by the TV crews and 100% don't know there is a hidden camera monitoring them. When I watched the show with a friend, we roar with laughter because we know that the hidden camera won't do any harm to those who had been tricked, but what if the hidden camera is placed in your workplace and everyday while you are working, you don't know that you are being monitored by your boss? According to an article I read titled "You've Got Inappropriate Mail" there is a system manager at a toy company who installed some program on his computer to make possible for him to monitor all his employees for a whole day, every day. With that program he would know which employee really works hard and which does not. But we also know that everything has its own advantages and disadvantages. So, there are advantages and disadvantages of workplace monitoring. First, I will talk about the advantages of workplace monitoring first. According to the article "You've Got Inappropriate Mail" the advantages of workplace monitoring are to make sure every employee works hard or if some of the workers are doing something bad like wasting time searching some website for personal reasons or disturbing other workers. Mishra,Jitendra M. and Crampton,Suzanne M. said that the advantages of workplace monitoring are one of the best way to increase the employee's work performance. If the employee knows that they are being monitored, they will try to change their bad habits and make some improvement in their work performance. This knowledge can increase employee performance and efficiency. For example, a study conducted by Christopher Earley in 1988 indicated that "computer-based feedback has a greater impact on an employee's performance if he or she

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