Information privacy in organizations: Empowering creative and extrarole performance

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Alge, BJ; Ballinger, GA; Tangirala, S; Oakley, JL
• 署名单位: Purdue University System; Purdue University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.91.1.221
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 221-232
• 关键词: information privacy; creativity; ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR; empowerment

摘要

This article examines the relationship of employee perceptions of information privacy in their work organizations and important psychological and behavioral outcomes. A model is presented in which information privacy predicts psychological empowerment, which in turn predicts discretionary behaviors on the job, including creative performance and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Results from 2 studies (Study 1: single organization, N = 310; Study 2: multiple organizations, N = 303) confirm that information privacy entails judgments of information gathering control, information handling control, and legitimacy. Moreover, a model linking information privacy to empowerment and empowerment to creative performance and OCBs was supported. Findings are discussed in light of organizational attempts to control employees through the gathering and handling of their personal information.