electronic+employee+monitoring

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 * Monitoring:**

Monitoring is the regular observation and recording of activities taking place in a project or programme. It is a process of routinely gathering information on all aspects of the project. To monitor is to check on how project activities are progressing. It is observation; –– systematic and purposeful observation. Monitoring also involves giving feedback about the progress of the project to the donors, implementors and beneficiaries of the project. Reporting enables the gathered information to be used in making decisions for improving project performance. Click Here for Link

Monitoring provides information that will be useful in://
 * Analysing the situation in the community and its project;
 * Determining whether the inputs in the project are well utilized;
 * Identifying problems facing the community or project and finding solutions;
 * Ensuring all activities are carried out properly by the right people and in time;
 * Using lessons from one project experience on to another; and
 * Determining whether the way the project was planned is the most appropriate way of solving the problem at hand.


 * Examples of Electronic Employee Monitoring:**

When teachers or students get their fingerprints to sign in to somewhere, e.g. a library. Then the technology can help tell how long the teacher and student were in the place.

E-mail Monitoring.

A large number of managers indicate that they also consistently monitor e-mail communications. The dynamic qualities of e-mail that have propelled it to record use in business are also some of its vulnerabilities. For one, e-mail is less formal and may be more personal and impulsive. Employees may be sending confidential, sensitive or offensive information across a corporate network with the sincere belief that their communications are private. In reality, e-mail can be easily distributed, copied and read by numerous others without the sender's knowledge. E-mail distributed within a network is stored on the system even though receivers and senders may have deleted the messages. Stored e-mail provides records of communications that can be legally retrieved and printed for review. E-mail is also admissible in court. Organizations are legally liable for all communications originating from their networks. This puts the firm at risk for lawsuits if employees engage in harassing, profane, discriminatory or illegal communications. E-mail monitoring software scans employee communications and/or computer files for key words and phrases that may signal unacceptable or illegal messages. In one recent incident, the New York Times //relates that a sexual harassment suit at Chevron cost the company US $2.2 million when an employee sent coarse messages over the company e-mail system.Click Here for Link

click to view a flow chart expalining the process of electronically monitoring an employee.