Chapter I: Workplace Surveillance

Joseph Migga Kizza
University of Tennessee - Chattanooga, USA

Jackline Ssanyu
Makerere University, Uganda

Abstract

This chapter identifies factors that are encouraging the growth in the monitoring of employees at work and investigates the reasons for this growth. Technologies, both old and new, that are available for use in monitoring workers are described, and the advantages in the deployment of some of these technologies are compared. The various effects of monitoring on employees are considered , along with ways by which employees can protect themselves from undesirable effects.