A field study of corporate employee monitoring: Attitudes, absenteeism, and the moderating influences of procedural justice perceptions Export

@article{citeulike:5320107, abstract = {Managers are responsible for creating and enforcing company policies governing organizational practices, and one practice that is on the rise in organizations involves monitoring of employees for security purposes. The research literature on security behaviors has focused almost exclusively on compliance with or obedience to such policies; however, compliance with prescribed behaviors is not complete in terms of organizational performance. People may comply with policies with which they disagree, but harbor resentments and exhibit counterproductive and even destructive behaviors in protest. We conducted a field study of organizational monitoring policies and practices using factors from the threat control model and found that perceptions of threat, self-efficacy, and trust in the organization were key factors in attitudes about monitoring, and that these factors interacted with employee perceptions of organizational procedural justice such that high perceptions of organizational procedural justice moderated negative attitudes toward corporate monitoring, and better attitudes about monitoring was found to associate with reduced employee absences from the job.}, author = {Workman, Michael}, citeulike-article-id = {5320107}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infoandorg.2009.06.001}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1471772709000220}, day = {23}, doi = {10.1016/j.infoandorg.2009.06.001}, issn = {14717727}, journal = {Information and Organization}, keywords = {human\_resources, security, users}, month = {July}, posted-at = {2009-08-01 14:26:04}, priority = {2}, title = {A field study of corporate employee monitoring: Attitudes, absenteeism, and the moderating influences of procedural justice perceptions}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infoandorg.2009.06.001}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5320107 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5320107 N2 - Managers are responsible for creating and enforcing company policies governing organizational practices, and one practice that is on the rise in organizations involves monitoring of employees for security purposes. The research literature on security behaviors has focused almost exclusively on compliance with or obedience to such policies; however, compliance with prescribed behaviors is not complete in terms of organizational performance. People may comply with policies with which they disagree, but harbor resentments and exhibit counterproductive and even destructive behaviors in protest. We conducted a field study of organizational monitoring policies and practices using factors from the threat control model and found that perceptions of threat, self-efficacy, and trust in the organization were key factors in attitudes about monitoring, and that these factors interacted with employee perceptions of organizational procedural justice such that high perceptions of organizational procedural justice moderated negative attitudes toward corporate monitoring, and better attitudes about monitoring was found to associate with reduced employee absences from the job. JF - Information and Organization SN - 14717727 TI - A field study of corporate employee monitoring: Attitudes, absenteeism, and the moderating influences of procedural justice perceptions KW - human_resources KW - security KW - users AU - Workman, Michael PY - 2009/07/23/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infoandorg.2009.06.001 ER -