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- Title
Employees' Attitudes toward Electronic Monitoring.
- Authors
AL Thnayan, Saleh Abdullah
- Abstract
Electronic monitoring is a rapidly growing phenomenon in Saudi organizations. The Majority of Saudi organizations today use electronic technology to monitor their employee activities. Managers justify electronic monitoring in terms of protecting the company's confidential information, preventing the misuse resources while uplifting the quality of work and increasing productivity. On the other hand, employees' attitudes toward electronic monitoring is a controversial issue. Therefore, this study empirically investigated the employees' attitudes towards electronic monitoring. Based on simple random sampling, data were collected from 178 employees in three companies, by administrating a structured questionnaire in which items were of 5-point Lickert scale. In this study, Perceived Violation of Privacy (PVOP) was negatively correlated with employees' attitudes toward electronic monitoring. Therefore, the organizations should take proper actions to eliminate this perception by increasing the awareness level among employees. On the other hand, Perceived Level of Productivity (PLOP), Perceived Rate of Tardiness (PROT), Perceived Fair Evaluation of Performance (PFEP), and Perceived Job Satisfaction (PJS) were positively correlated with attitudes toward electronic monitoring. Therefore, it is necessary for the organizations to reinforce these attitudes through actions appropriate with the data resulted from electronic monitoring systems.
- Subjects
EMPLOYEE attitudes; ELECTRONIC monitoring in the workplace; CONFIDENTIAL business information; DIGITAL cameras; COMPUTER network monitoring
- Publication
Multi-Knowledge Electronic Comprehensive Journal For Education & Science Publications (MECSJ), 2019, Issue 27, p1
- ISSN
2616-9185
- Publication type
Article