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Present day employees face a paradoxical situation. While, contemporary human resource management advocate autonomy, empowerment, and employee involvement/employee participation (EI/EP) as their core practices, the technological advancements have enabled organizations to keep employees under perpetual surveillance. Invasive technology has given employers access to employees’ personal and professional information at the click of a button. This paper argues that the deployment of digital surveillance technologies in an organization creates a paradox resulting in misinterpretation of human resource management policies and procedures from the sociomaterial perspective. This misinterpretation by the employees' further results in an imbalance of power, increased psychological distance between employers and employees, all leading to increased distrust between the two. Resultantly, the employers increase surveillance in the organizations as a means of improved security, control and protection. Surveillance as leading to reduced trust between employers and employees has been extensively studied; however, this paper argues that this spiral can be dismantled if the human resource management policies and procedures advocating autonomy, empowerment, and EI/EP are both designed and communicated effectively considering the entanglement of surveillance technologies in organizations, i.e., through the sociomateriality of surveillance.
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