Impacts of Personnel Data Technologies

个人电脑、局域网和internet在工作组织中的广泛使用促进了对员工个人信息收集的惊人增长。越来越多的组织收集和维护数据，例如使用网络计算机系统的测试结果和性能记录。-组织将这些数据提供给越来越多的组织成员，用于多种目的。-使用技术来收集、维护和分发有关工人的信息引发了许多价值问题。组织需要了解可能与员工对隐私、自主权和工作保障的需求相冲突。这些对立的需求实际上保证了工作组织应该收集、维护和分发关于工人的哪些信息的冲突。这个奖项允许研究者开始研究关于这个冲突的两组相关问题。首先，员工认为这些技术的哪些方面或特征对他们的地位、福祉和隐私最重要？其次，在采用和部署这些技术时，组织决策者使用什么决策过程？赠款资金支持文献审查和理论发展的试点阶段，以及收集有关将人事数据技术引入组织的案例历史的初步定性研究。定性研究的材料将用于生成后续研究的调查项目。结果将使关于雇员的知识和态度以及管理人员在人事数据技术方面的决策过程的后续研究的理论重点和方法的可靠性更加突出。进一步的研究将以这些结果为基础，要求员工直接回应管理层的观点，并要求管理者直接回应员工的观点。在本研究中，员工和管理层观点之间的潜在冲突将被明确评估。-最终项目将提供一个纵向的视角，将工人信息技术引入一个组织，将员工和管理者态度的变化与个人数据技术的具体实例的引入联系起来

The widespread availability of the personal computer, local area networks, and the-Internet in work organizations has fostered extraordinary growth in the collection of-personal information about workers. Increasingly, organizations collect and maintain data-such as test results and performance records using networked computer systems.-Organizations make these data available to a widening circle of organizational members for-multiple purposes.-The use of technology for collecting, maintaining, and distributing information about-workers raises numerous value-laden questions. Organizational need to know may-conflict with worker need for privacy, autonomy, and job security. These opposing-needs virtually guarantee conflict about what information work organizations should collect,-maintain, and distribute concerning workers.-This award allows the investigator to begin to work on two related sets of questions about this-conflict. First, what facets or features of these technologies do workers evaluate as most-important to their status, well being, and privacy? Second, what decision processes do-organizational decision-makers use when adopting and deploying these technologies? Grant-funding supports a pilot phase of literature review and theoretical development and an initial qualitative-study to collect case histories concerning the introduction of personnel data-technologies into organizations. Material from the qualitative study will be utilized to generate-survey items for subsequent studies. Results will sharpen the theoretical focus and methodological soundness of- subsequent studies of the knowledge and attitudes of-employees and the decision processes of managers in regard to personnel data-technologies. Further research would build upon these results by asking-employees to respond directly to management views, and asking managers to respond-directly to employee views. In this study, the potential for conflict between employee-and management perspectives would be explicitly assessed.-A final project would provide a longitudinal view of the introduction of a worker-information technology into an organization, to link changes in employee and manager attitudes to the introduction of a specific-instance of a personnel data technology.-