Situating workplace surveillance: Ethics and computer based performance monitoring

Ethics and Information Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 211-223

  Ball, Kirstie S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINES; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; ETHICS AND COMPUTERS; FINE-GRAIN ANALYSIS; ITS APPLICATIONS; PERFORMANCE MONITORING; PROCEDURAL AND DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE; SOCIAL RELATIONS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EID: 3142707695     PISSN: 13881957     EISSN: 15728439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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