Information Privacy in Organizations: Empowering Creative and Extra-role Performance

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Bradley Alge

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CERIAS TR 2006-59

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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. Results from two 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.

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2006

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Journal of Applied Psychology

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Alge

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221-232

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2006-01-01

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	author = "Bradley Alge",
	year = "2006",
	journal = "Journal of Applied Psychology",
	pages = "221-232",
	volume = "91",
	abstract = "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. Results from two 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.",
	url = "http://www.mgmt.purdue.edu/faculty/alge/Publications/Alge Ballinger Tangirala Oakley in press JAP.pdf",
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