Global Institutional Pressures: Transparency and Accountability – Effects Within Organizations

Assignment 9: Global institutional pressures: transparency and accountability – Effects within organizations

Summarize Baker S., “Management by numbers”, Business Week, 9/8/2008, issue 4098

The article is basically about a project at IBM, where they attempt to codify workers by measuring a variety of variables. The project aims to optimize its employees. And how IBM can operate more efficiently “ Management by numbers”. The right people at the right place at the right time. in a large company like IBM in a tough competitive global economy it is important to effectively operate and control their business and its employees. Get a grip on their staff through word of mouth or personal contacts is too small and indistinct.

There, chose IBM to implement a systems for employees, which contributed to increased control out of the staff and to respond in as smoothly as possible to find the right person for the right job. For example: Online calendars show how employees use their time and who they meet. By tracking the use of cell phones and PDAs, they can track movements.

Example of similar "monitoring systems" that you have come across in your daily lives

examples of similar "monitoring system" that we have around us in our daily lives, is Raitsit that gives anyone the opportunity to get information about all who are residents in Sweden for their income, residential address, marital status, etc.

And then gives google earth the opportunity to enter and see exactly how each person's home looks like. Which leads to an extreme transparency. I Sweden you can also look up who owns a particular phone number and see where the people live, on websites Eniro and hitta.se.

We have come across similar techniques using advanced mathematical models to audit users in the search engine industry and in social media. For example google and facebook where users actions and opinions are monitored to adopt ads and other information presented to the user. However, this...