<p>Although the research literature on employees’ privacy management has grown noticeably over recent years, much of this research tends to focus on how organizations’ use of technology to monitor and manage the performance of employees might violate workers’ perceived privacy rights and privileges. While formal programs and policies such as the use of certain technologies can cause privacy concerns for workers, threats to employees’ privacy may also stem from informal communication between employees. To date, however, practically no research has directly examined whether and which aspects of informal communication between employees might be viewed as threats to employees’ privacy boundaries. Accordingly, the present research sought to stimulate further scientific exploration into this topic by providing researchers with a valid tool to examine an interesting, yet unexplored phenomenon in the organizational sciences: workplace nosiness. Workplace nosiness refers to employees’ intrusive attempts to obtain private information from others at work. Findings across four studies suggest that workplace nosiness is a relatively common experience for employees and is a multidimensional construct, and that perceptions of workplace nosiness can result from individual differences, interpersonal factors, and features of the broader work context and are related to a variety of adverse affective and behavioral outcomes for employees. We provide several suggestions for future research to further extend the nomological network of workplace nosiness.</p>

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Mind Your Own Business: Developing and Validating the Workplace Nosiness Scale

  • Richard A. Currie,
  • Mark G. Ehrhart

摘要

Although the research literature on employees’ privacy management has grown noticeably over recent years, much of this research tends to focus on how organizations’ use of technology to monitor and manage the performance of employees might violate workers’ perceived privacy rights and privileges. While formal programs and policies such as the use of certain technologies can cause privacy concerns for workers, threats to employees’ privacy may also stem from informal communication between employees. To date, however, practically no research has directly examined whether and which aspects of informal communication between employees might be viewed as threats to employees’ privacy boundaries. Accordingly, the present research sought to stimulate further scientific exploration into this topic by providing researchers with a valid tool to examine an interesting, yet unexplored phenomenon in the organizational sciences: workplace nosiness. Workplace nosiness refers to employees’ intrusive attempts to obtain private information from others at work. Findings across four studies suggest that workplace nosiness is a relatively common experience for employees and is a multidimensional construct, and that perceptions of workplace nosiness can result from individual differences, interpersonal factors, and features of the broader work context and are related to a variety of adverse affective and behavioral outcomes for employees. We provide several suggestions for future research to further extend the nomological network of workplace nosiness.