Surveillance And Individual Behavior

Surveillance and individual behavior

Introduction

The author also talks about individual behavior, which he defines as an individual behavior that does not include (centrally) interactions with other. This behavior may consist of work behavior, that is, performing the usual activities within the work, or it can consist of a behavior for personal maintenance and leisure (for example, lunch, read Internet news, visit the bathroom, get ready, listen to music). This solo behavior is often very sensitive to privacy, because it is increasingly subject to monitoring and surveillance by the employer.

Developing

Particularly through camera surveillance. According to Brey, together with individual behavior there is social behavior, which consists of interactions with other human beings. From a point of view of privacy, social behavior deserves to be treated separately from individual behavior. An important form of social interaction that deserves a special mention is verbal communication;either face to face, by phone, or by email, text message or chat online;These work social interactions can also have a private character.

Either because it contains information sensitive to privacy or because the conversators seek isolation to create intimacy, trust or confidentiality between them. Like individual behavior, social behavior is increasingThey, video surveillance is involved;That is why the arguments against video surveillance are manifested. While it is true that to verify the good performance of the worker.

Other types of monitoring such as satisfaction surveys, production statistics, or by means of the sales number can be carried out;Good performance is not only related to the fact that if employees work enough or create enough results. A good performance also means not damaging the organization (for example, carelessness, waste, robberies or embezzlement) and adequate compliance with responsibilities. Therefore, to guarantee the productivity and quality of work and to protect itself against damage, the employer must be able to control the aspects of the worker.

conclusion

Control that it becomes effective through video surveillance. But, the fact that it is an effective mechanism does not mean that it must pass over the rights that workers have, in fact, the transparency that must govern in this matter must be a fundamental element to legitimize the entrepreneur’s supervisory faculty;This transparency is achieved by implementing a policy of use of the technological means in which both the limits to which the workers and the scope and extension, material and temporary, of the surveillance that arewant to practice and the possible sanctions to apply.