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Author Ostermaier, Andreas.

Title The business case for employee privacy : empirical analysis of the effects of employee privacy on empowerment, creativity, and job satisfaction / by Andreas Ostermaier
Published Berlin : Duncker & Humblot, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse ; Band 140
Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse (Duncker & Humblot) ; Bd. 140.
Contents The Business Case for Employee Privacy; The Ethical Challenge of Employee Privacy; An Analytical Approach to the Privacy Challenge; Making the Business Case for Employee Privacy; Conceptualization of Employee Privacy; The Relationship between Privacy and Control; The Balance between Achieved and Desired Privacy; Perceived vs. Objective Privacy; Privacy Regulation Behaviors; Control over the Environment; Control over Communication; Control over Personal Information; Control over the Work-Life Boundaries; Development of a Measure of Employee Privacy; The Development of Measures
Development of the Initial ItemsItems for Control over the Environment; Items for Control over Communication; Items for Control over Personal Information; Items for Control over the Work-Life Boundaries; Validation of the Measure; Final Measure of Employee Privacy; The Effects of Privacy on Creativity and Job Satisfaction; Privacy and Creativity; Creativity as an Objective of Companies; The Effect of Privacy on Creativity; Privacy and Job Satisfaction; Job Satisfaction as an Objective of Companies; The Effect of Privacy on Job Satisfaction; The Mediating Effects of Empowerment
The Concept of EmpowermentThe Effect of Privacy on Empowerment; The Effect of Empowerment on Creativity; The Effect of Empowerment on Job Satisfaction; The Control Variables and their Effects; Choice of the Control Variables; Person-Related Effects; Job-Related Effects; Context-Related Effects; Empirical Test of the Effects of Privacy; Research Setting, Participants, and Procedures; Research Setting; Participants; Procedures; The Measures; The Measure of Creativity; The Measure of Job Satisfaction; The Measure of Empowerment; The Measure of Creative Potential
The Measure of Motivating PotentialThe Measure of Climate for Creativity; The Measures of the Manifest Variables; Statistical Procedures; Choice of the PLS Approach; Evaluation of Reflective Measurement Models; Evaluation of Formative Measurement Models; Evaluation of the Path Model; Results of the Empirical Analysis; Evaluation of the Measurement Models; Evaluation of the Structural Model; Analysis of Moderating Effects; Test for Common Method Variance; Discussion of the Results; Summary of the Results; Limitations and Implications for Research; Managerial Implications
Appendix: Statistics and TestsTest of psa and csv for Significance; The Sobel Test for Mediation; Test for Moderation; Appendix: Tables; Correlations between the Privacy Items; Indirect and Total Effects; Appendix: German Questionnaire; Appendix: English Questionnaire; Bibliography; Index
Summary Privacy poses a challenge to companies, which strive to strike a balance between economic interests and moral obligations. Employees claim their right to privacy, but economic reasoning seems to warrant restrictions of employee privacy, since less privacy means more control. However, is there really a conflict between privacy and profit?In his study Andreas Ostermaier investigates effects of employee privacy that are in line with company interests and thus might resolve the conflict between privacy and profit. Specifically, the author investigates how intrinsic motivation, creativity, and job
Notes Doctoral Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2011
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-160) and index
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Subject Employee rights.
Privacy, Right of.
Supervision of employees.
Electronic monitoring in the workplace.
Information resources management.
Information Management
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
Electronic monitoring in the workplace
Employee rights
Information resources management
Privacy, Right of
Supervision of employees
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783428538263
3428538269
Other Titles Empirical analysis of the effects of employee privacy on empowerment, creativity, and job satisfaction