Information privacy in organizations: Empowering creative and extrarole performance.
- 1 January 2006
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Applied Psychology
- Vol. 91 (1), 221-232
- https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.91.1.221
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 (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.Keywords
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