In both small and large-scale enterprises, tracking personnel performance is of great importance in terms of business efficiency. The continuity of personnel in the workplaces attracts the attention of these organizations in terms of human resources management.
Personnel tracking systems, which are becoming increasingly common in our country, are preferred by more and more businesses. However, there is also debate about the limits and ethical dimension of follow-up. In this article, you can find some details on the ethical dimension of personnel tracking systems.
Opportunities Offered by Technology in Personnel Tracking
In the years when technology was not as advanced as today, workplaces employed extra personnel responsible only for this work for the data of the personnel such as job tracking, entry and exit times and performance. The data in question was monitored and reported by the persons assigned to this work. Some businesses preferred applications where employees noted their own entry and exit times instead of extra employment.
Today, there are personnel attendance control systems (PDKS) that can perform these functions more practically, safely and effectively. Such automated systems eliminate dozens of problems encountered in previous periods, such as calculating the timetable, collecting and storing data, and incorrectly recording entry and exit times.
Ethical Responsibility in Personnel Follow-up
As a business owner, you have the right to monitor the activities of your employees as they enter employment for your company. This includes employees' digital media and electronic parts such as computers and company phones. Monitoring employee information without the employee's knowledge is the most unfiltered way to track employees, but the practice raises some ethical issues.
How you use employee monitoring can also directly impact employee-management relationships and reduce work efficiency.In this respect, it is necessary to be careful when receiving and implementing services in personnel follow-up.
1) Follow-up of Working Time Entry and Exit Hours When it comes to personnel attendance control systems, the first application that comes to mind is the working entry and exit times.
Access to this information is a reasonable request on the part of businesses. There is no ethical debate about this.
2) Email and Correspondence Control
However, within the scope of personnel tracking systems, there are options such as viewing e-mails and other communication accounts. Viewing employees' personal emails and other communication accounts can have legal consequences for business owners.
The important point here is that the application is limited to the communication tools that the staff use for work. The follow-up of communication channels related to the private life of the employee will be problematic both ethically and legally.
3) Unauthorized Access to Personal Information
Monitoring the company's electronic and digital devices, including phones and computers, is a legal practice in our country. However, monitoring these devices without employee knowledge can create an ethical dilemma for you as a business owner, due to personal information you may hear or see.
For example, seeing an email that an employee sent using your company's computer can reveal that the employee is experiencing credit crunch and is at risk of losing his home in foreclosure. This information can cause you to treat the employee differently, even if you don't want the employee to know about this information.
Quality and Safe Service in Personnel Tracking Systems
Apart from ethical responsibility, you should prioritize quality and ease of use when choosing personnel attendance control systems for your business. Varnost Access Control Systems, which has a leading position in personnel attendance control systems as the distributor of the world-famous Dahua company in Turkey, offers high quality service with its more than 10 years of experience and expert technical team.
You can review thepersonnel attendance control systems products offered with Varnost quality and get detailed information about the most suitable technology solutions for your institution by contacting (0212) 220 9 220 – (0505) 445 06 54.
by B4MIND