Technology, Power, and the Organization: Wearable Technologies and Their Implications for the Performance Appraisal

Lia Tirabeni ()
Additional contact information
Lia Tirabeni: University of Turin

Chapter Chapter 4 in Performance Appraisal in Modern Employment Relations, 2020, pp 61-85 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Ubiquitous technologies may offer interesting opportunities for both employers and employees to exert power within organizations with implications for workers performance improvement and assessment. However, along with these opportunities there are many hidden risks. Through a meta analysis concerning the adoption of wearable technologies at work, the chapter investigates the critical role played by such technologies in shaping power within workplaces and related opportunities for the design of workers performance appraisal systems. After a background analysis regarding the relationship between power, technology and the organization, an investigation of the use of wearable devices within organizations and their meanings with respect to issues of power follows. The chapter ends with a SWOT analysis concerning the implications of these digital tools for the design of workers performance appraisal systems, and conclusions and future research proposals drawn.

Keywords: Wearable technology; Power; Organization; Performance appraisal systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-26538-0_4

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783030265380

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-26538-0_4

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().