Privacy in the workplace in perspective

Linowes, David F.; Spencer, Ray C.

doi:10.1016/s1053-4822(96)90011-x

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“…Each of these endeavors requires additional details that for reasons of readability and space constraints, we furnish in an online supplement to the paper. Overall, we update and extend prior reviews that either explicitly (e.g., Linowes & Spencer, 1997; Stone-Romero & Stone, 2007) or implicitly (e.g., Alge & Hansen, 2014; Bernstein, 2017) focus on workplace privacy.…”

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Privacy at Work: A Review and a Research Agenda for a Contested Terrain

Bhave¹,

Teo

Dalal

2019

Journal of Management

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Privacy in the workplace is a pivotal concern for employees and employers. Employees expect to be in control of the personal information and access they provide to the organization. Employers, however, expect extensive information regarding their employees as well as extensive access to employees’ presence. The chasm between these two often competing expectations has been magnified by regulatory and technological trends. We begin the review by integrating viewpoints from multiple disciplines to disentangle definitions of privacy and to delineate the privacy contexts of information privacy and work environment privacy. We then identify the key stakeholders of privacy in the workplace and describe their interests. This discussion serves as a platform for our stakeholders’ privacy calculus model, which in turn provides a framework within which we review empirical findings on workplace privacy from organizational research and related disciplines and from which we identify gaps in the existing research. We then advance an extensive research agenda. Finally, we draw attention to emerging technologies and laws that have far-reaching implications for employees and employers. Our review provides a road map for researchers and practitioners to navigate the contested terrain of workplace privacy.

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Privacy at Work: A Review and a Research Agenda for a Contested Terrain

Bhave¹,

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Dalal

2019

Journal of Management

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“…As we described earlier, organizations desire to have accurate personal information that will enable them to analyze and make fine-grained hiring and promotion decisions. Employers look for job applicants who show promise of being good citizens and productive members of their organizational work forces (Linowes & Spencer, 1996). But only when employees' privacy concerns are addressed will these prospective employees give accurate information.…”

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Will it be Disclosure or Fabrication of Personal Information? An Examination of Persuasion Strategies on Prospective Employees

Santhanam

2008

International Journal of Information Security and Privacy

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Individuals are increasingly reluctant to disclose personal data and sometimes even intentionally fabricate information to avoid the risk of having it compromised. In such situations, , organizations face an acute dilemma: they must obtain accurate job applicant information in order to make good hiring decisions, but potential employees may be reluctant to provide accurate information because they fear it could be used for other purposes. Building on theoretical foundations from social cognition and persuasion theory, we propose that, depending on levels of privacy concerns, organizations could use appropriate strategies to persuade job applicants to provide accurate information. We conducted a laboratory experiment to examine the effects of two different persuasion strategies on prospective employees’ willingness to disclose information, measured as their intentions to disclose or falsify information. Our results show support for our suggestion. As part of this study, we propose the term information sensitivity to identify the types of personal information that potential employees are most reluctant to disclose.

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“…2 For more on these and further examples, see e.g. Linowes and Spencer (1996), Mishra and Crampton (1998), Oz et al (1999), Parenti (2001), and Townsend and Bennett (2003). 3 As a consequence, public sector employees enjoy more workplace privacy protection, because their employer is the state.…”

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Workplace Surveillance, Privacy Protection, and Efficiency Wages

Schmitz

2004

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in University of Bonn and CEPRAbstract. Consider an employer who wants her employee to work hard.As is well known from the efficiency wage literature, the employer must pay the (wealth-constrained) employee a positive rent to provide incentives for exerting unobservable effort. Alternatively, the employer could make effort observable by costly workplace surveillance. It is argued that a privacy protection law preventing surveillance may increase the total surplus. While such a law reduces the employer's profit, this loss can be overcompensated by the employee's gain, because the employer invests in surveillance not only to implement higher effort, but also to reduce the employee's rent.

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Privacy in the workplace in perspective

Cited by 13 publications

References 7 publications

Privacy at Work: A Review and a Research Agenda for a Contested Terrain

Privacy at Work: A Review and a Research Agenda for a Contested Terrain

Will it be Disclosure or Fabrication of Personal Information? An Examination of Persuasion Strategies on Prospective Employees

Workplace Surveillance, Privacy Protection, and Efficiency Wages

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