Case
LAHORE WASTE MANAGEMENT COMPANY (LWMC): ANDROID ATTENDANCE
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AREA :MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
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LENGTH :20
LUMS No :18-266-2022-1
PUBLICATION YEAR : 2022
ABSTRACT:
The case chronicles the dilemma of Waseem Ajmal, the Managing Director of the Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC), in May 2014, as he attempts to incorporate an information communication technology (ICT) based solution to a long-standing sanitary worker attendance issue. The sanitary workers all belonged to a religious minority and were well-knit as a social unit. Due to lax standards in the manual attendance system and lack of accountability, ghost workers had been a regular feature of LWMC’s roster. Essentially these employees, through corrupt collusion with the attendance checkers, had not come on duty for years, yet had been marked as present and their salaries were regularly disbursed. The new Android-based attendance system was meant to take out a significant part of the corruption through the requirement for documentary evidence of sanitary worker presence at duty in the form of GPS tagged and time-stamped photos of employees, uploaded to a central database twice a day.(approved 10-March-2022)