Comparative Analysis of Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance

        Pluralism theory is about the idea that how power is distributed among different group of people in society or in organization. This theory indicates that power prevailing between people is distributed between different groups. These group can be correlation of different people like unions, business law B and professional associations. This type of theory is more focused towards factors like compromising and collective bargaining. Different sub groups in this theory have different types of interest and it can cause conflict between these groups due to different types of interest. For instance, conflict between management of an organization and trade union is an example of application of this theory. It can be suggested that at this theory is opposite to unitary approach because in unitary approach, all the members of the group have same interest and they are considered to be homogeneous.

        Management of organization has clear defined policies for implementation in order to achieve the formulated goals and objectives. That is why, unitary approach is better for organizations as compared to pluralism approach. Sense of competition is considered to be one of the most significant elements in pluralism theory. Workplace surveillance does not have implementation of any kind of competition due to which this theory is not relevant for workplace surveillance. This theory can be associated with workplace surveillance in a manner that some of the employees working in the organization might consider workplace monitoring of employees as a positive step by the management of the organization because they believe that management is safeguarding the employees at workplace. Some of the employees have conflicting opinion that workplace surveillance is mostly implemented by the management of the organization against the privacy rights of the employees working at workplace. Organization does not have right to collect Private data of employees working at workplace. These conflicting opinions related to implementation of workplace surveillance are one of the associated examples for Pluralism theory.

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