Monitoring Employee Behavior Through the Use of Technology and Issues of Employee Privacy in America

Despite the historic American love for privacy that has enhancedinnovation and creativity throughout the country, encroachments on privacy restrainindividual freedom. Noticeable, advances in technology have offered decision makersremarkable monitoring aptitudes that can be used in numerous tasks for multiple reasons.This has led scholars and practitioners to pose a significant number of questions aboutwhat is legitimate and illegitimate in the day-to-day affairs of a business. Thisarticle is composed of (a) research about electronic monitoring and privacy concerns;(b) definitions of, critiques of, and alternatives to electronic performance monitoring(EPM); (c) motives behind employee monitoring and leadership behaviors; (d) advice thatmakes monitoring less distressful; (e) employee monitoring policies; (f) reviewingpolicies and procedures; (g) the role of human resource development (HRD) in employeeassessment and development; and (h) conclusion and recommendations for furtherstudies