Individual differences and electronic monitoring at work

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 488-505

  Chen, Jengchung V ^a   Ross, William H ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic monitoring; Electronic Performance Monitoring; Individual differences; Personality; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548321336     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180701560002     Document Type: Article

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