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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2022(VII-II).31      10.31703/gssr.2022(VII-II).31      Published : Jun 2022

Biometric Attendance Management System: A University Perspective

    Employees working in the workplace are electronically monitored in this digital age of globalization and digitization. Managing attendance by old-style methods is a tedious job putting signatures on attendance registers these days. Universities working under the influence of digitization have adopted bio metric attendance management systems. This study is an attempt to study the advantages and disadvantages of a bio metric attendance management system installed in the context of a university. The convenience research approach was employed as a research design to carry this research. It is qualitative research, and the data gathering gadget was the observation and discussion method. Researchers observed bio metric attendance management system operation critically and minutely for around two months and noted various modes and behaviors drawing outcomes. Findings displayed that the bio metric attendance management system has certain advantages and disadvantages. Advantages encompassed real-time in and out tracking, easy attendance record maintenance, work performance improvement, and controlling employee absenteeism. Conversely, disadvantages comprised job stress, disturbance due to load shedding of electricity, fear of salary deduction,and delay reaching to classes.

    Biometric, Attendance, Management System, University, Perspective
    (1) Inayatullah Kakepoto
    Department of English, Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering, Science and Technology, Nawabshah, Sindh, Pakistan.
    (2) Niaz Ahmed Bhutto
    Department of Sociology, University of Sindh Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan
    (3) Aamir Iqbal Umrani
    Department of Business Administration, Sindh Madressatul Islam University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.