Workflow-Management-Systems: Source and Solution of Privacy Problems in Organisations
Kurt Bauknecht, Ralph Holbein · 1996
Introduction of workflow management systems (WMS) in organisations implies various information concerning employees’ productivity and performance to be generated and available on computer systems with extensive capabilities for exploitation of this personal information. In this chapter we will consider the privacy problems concerning personal information that arise by an introduction of WMS. We will show that these problems concern information misuse in general and that WMS also provide means to solve this problem. Hence, we will not consider IT security concerning confidentiality, integrity and availability of WMS, i.e. workflow services and data. Appropriate solutions for these basic security issues are well known and available by traditional means of IT security.