Electronic Performance Monitoring and sustained attention: Social facilitation for modern applications

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Highlights:

• EPM has been used in numerous organizations to monitor and evaluate employees.

• This article describes two studies that examine the effects of EPM on vigilance.

• The results demonstrated that EPM could improve detection performance in vigilance.

• This implies that electronic presence can facilitate sustained attention.

• Future work should replicate these results in organizational contexts.

摘要

•EPM has been used in numerous organizations to monitor and evaluate employees.•This article describes two studies that examine the effects of EPM on vigilance.•The results demonstrated that EPM could improve detection performance in vigilance.•This implies that electronic presence can facilitate sustained attention.•Future work should replicate these results in organizational contexts.

论文关键词:Vigilance,Video-based monitoring,Performance,Social facilitation

论文评审过程:Received 14 May 2018, Revised 21 November 2018, Accepted 3 January 2019, Available online 4 January 2019, Version of Record 8 January 2019.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.01.001