Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.31141/zrpfs.2025.62.158.609
Could Managerial Prerogatives Justify Digital Panopticon in the Contemporary Workplace?
Andrijana Bilić
; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu
Abstract
Employment relation is characterised by dependency of the employees on their (specific) employer in an economic, social, and psychological sense. This employee dependency is a root of inequality of bargaining power between employer and employee in the employment relationship. So, the employer’s higher hierarchical position gives him/her the possibility of consummation of managerial prerogatives. This means, as master of the work, s/he has exclusive rights to the control and supervision of the activities of the employees regarding the execution of the work, the possibility of applying disciplinary powers and organization of the work. The digital revolution and artificial intelligence have enabled employers to monitor employee activities even more closely, leading to a culture of panoptic surveillance that may cause significant harm to employees’ privacy issues. Can a real justification for excessive surveillance of employees in managerial prerogatives be found?
Keywords
inequality of bargaining power; managerial prerogatives; employee privacy protection; digitalisation; panoptic surveillance
Hrčak ID:
347629
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Publication date:
31.12.2025.
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