Monitoring Employee Performance at the Workplace

Abstract

Employee performance monitoring is one of the essential functions of human resource management and contributes to effective management of individuals and teams in order to achieve stated organizational goals.  An exploratory study was carried out to ascertain the various tools employed in monitoring the performance of employees in the selected organisation and the general opinion of employees about these tools were sought. The results indicated that telephone, video, computer, and the use of suggestion boxes were the main tools used by managers to monitor the performance of their employees. However, majority of the respondents did not feel comfortable with video monitoring and saw it as invasion of their privacy.

Keywords: Employee performance monitoring, human resource management, workplace