erted that they had been sexually harassed because of jokes sent through the company network. For abuses to end, snooping proponents argue, monitoring must take place. It cannot only prove guilt-it can prove innocence" (Faltermayer p. 159). Illegal online gamblers and those who visit pornography sites are individuals that no one needs at work anyways. Of course, other online activity is detrimental to the overall healthiness of a work environment as well. These are just two examples. But, managers can use these devices to weed those individuals out and promote a much healthier environment for their employers by protecting them from such individuals. Monitoring also promotes discipline. Discipline is often extremely necessary to accomplish any mission. If an employee knows that they may be subject to monitoring, they should have enough self- discipline to focus on work related issues vice such activities as recreational use of the Internet. "Discipline here is taken to be the willing acceptance of a social force that rationalizes organizational work to ensure normalized and controlled collective action (Sewell p. 10). It may force employees to follow company policies and rules, nonetheless; they are being followed. Another aspect of monitoring that is often either overlooked or underestimated is that it can actually promote teamwork. Teamwork is essential for organizations to produce favorable results and to attain an overall positive working environment. When productivity within a team setting is monitored and the results from this monitoring is relayed to the employees from managers, employees can evaluate themselves as a team and can eventually incorporate ways for the overall production of the team to increase. After all, we have all heard the old adage that you are as good as your slowest person. In many ways this holds true. For instance, if employee (A) is working slower and much less efficiently than employees (B) and (C), then ...
