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This study examines factors that influence an employee’s attitude and decisions about the information privacy practices of corporations. Using a survey of 319 employees from different corporations, this study explores individual factors, organizational factors and environmental factors affecting attitude towards personal information privacy. The results show that prior privacy experience, trust in IT on functionality, trust in IT on predictability, trust in IT on helpfulness, policy enforcement, top management support and government regulation are key factors affecting employees’ attitude towards personal information privacy. The results also show that employees’ concern about personal information privacy is related to actual punishments for the invasion of privacy rather than oral warnings.
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Hung, SY., Shen, KJ., Kang, TC. (2018). Factors Influencing Employees’ Attitude Towards Personal Information Privacy. In: Cho, W., Fan, M., Shaw, M., Yoo, B., Zhang, H. (eds) Digital Transformation: Challenges and Opportunities. WEB 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 328. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99936-4_4
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