Privacy and Attitudes Towards Internet-Based Selection Systems: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

By Michael M. Harris, Greet van Hoye, Filip Lievens. 2003

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This paper examines perceptions of privacy and how they relate to reluctance to submit employment-related information over the Internet. In addition, possible cross-cultural differences between the US and Belgium regarding these constructs and the role of Internet knowledge are investigated. Based on theories of privacy and cross-cultural differences, a survey methodology was applied to test several hypotheses. Results suggest that privacy considerations may affect reluctance to use an Internet-based selection system. Moreover, as expected, some differences were observed between US and Belgian respondents. Respondents possessing a higher self-rated knowledge of the Internet were less concerned that employment-related data submitted over the Internet would fall into the wrong hands.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/80dbafa0e3aa0742c444792ebe5ec5917d5f2733

Citations in the corpus

• Using social networking websites as a selection tool: The role of selection process fairness and job pursuit intentions (2012, unknown): “ Invasion of privacy (Harris et al., 2003).”