TY  - CHAP
AB  - We present a model of organizational monitoring that integrates organizational justice and information privacy. Specifically, we adopt the position that the formation of invasiveness and unfairness attitudes is a goal-driven process. We employ cybernetic control theory and identity theory to describe how monitoring systems affect one's ability to maintain a positive self-concept. Monitoring provides a particularly powerful cue that directs attention to self-awareness. People draw on fairness and privacy relevant cues inherent in monitoring systems and embedded in monitoring environments (e.g., justice climate) to evaluate their identities. Discrepancies between actual and desired personal and social identities create distress, motivating employees to engage in behavioral self-regulation to counteract potentially threatening monitoring systems. Organizational threats to personal identity goals lead to increased invasiveness attitudes and a commitment to protect and enhance the self. Threats to social identity lead to increased unfairness attitudes and lowered commitment to one's organization. Implications for theory and research on monitoring, justice, and privacy are discussed along with practical implications.
VL  - 25
SN  - 978-1-84950-426-3, 978-0-76231-327-3/0742-7301
DO  - 10.1016/S0742-7301(06)25003-5
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0742-7301(06)25003-5
AU  - Alge Bradley J.
AU  - Greenberg Jerald
AU  - Brinsfield Chad T.
ED  - Joseph J. Martocchio
PY  - 2006
Y1  - 2006/01/01
TI  - An Identity-Based Model of Organizational Monitoring: Integrating Information Privacy and Organizational Justice
T2  - Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management
T3  - Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 71
EP  - 135
Y2  - 2024/04/23
ER  -