Presentations

Question 1

Employee monitoring – Evidence-based recommendations for employee performance monitoring (Tomczak, Lanzo, & Aguinis, 2018)

EPM =

Answer 1

Electronic performance monitoring = organizational systems that use technology to gather, store, analyse, and report employee behavior data to assess performance and observe actions on the job.

Pros:
- Big-data representation of productivity and performance measurements.

Cons:

• Perceived injustice.
• Privacy invasion.
• Decreased satisfaction and organizational commitment.

Question 2

AI in decision making – Artificial intelligence and the future of work: human-AI symbiosis in organizational decision making (Jarrahi, 2018)

AI =

Answer 2

Artificial Intelligence = intelligent systems that are able to think and learn.

Pros:
- AI can extent the human’s cognition in complex situations (quantitative data).

Cons:

• Humans are better in evaluating subjective and qualitative matters.
• Humans are better in big-picture thinking.

Question 3

Gamification – A theory of work gamification: something old, something new, something borrowed, something cool? (Cardador, Northcraft, & Whicker, 2017)

Gamification =

Answer 3

Applying principles of digital and computer games in organizational contexts.

Pros:
- Increases work motivation and effectiveness.

Cons:
- Need to know how, why, and when it works. Effectiveness depends on worker characteristics and application characteristics.