Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2008. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-55).

Thesis (M.S.)--Mississippi State University. Department of Psychology. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

This dissertation explores applicant reactions to Internet-based selection procedures in order to advance theory and practice related to the use modern employee selection tools. Previous authors have explored this topic area (e.g., Harris et al., 2003). However, this dissertation goes beyond previous research by proposing and testing a model that incorporates the measurement of multiple constructs that are highly relevant to organizations when utilizing Internet-based selection procedures. Such constructs include privacy concerns, explanations, control, fairness perceptions, litigation intentions, organizational intentions, and test-taking motivation. Current organizational justice theory, previous findings from studies on applicant reactions to selection procedures, and research on Internet privacy concerns provided the foundation on which this research is based. This dissertation also pulls from theory in the legal, information sciences, and psychology literatures. A model of applicant reactions that included privacy concerns and multiple outcomes relevant to organizations was proposed. Hypotheses examining this model were tested via a high-fidelity laboratory study with student participants. One-third of the participants in this study were seeking jobs at the time of participation. Findings indicated that privacy concerns are an important predictor of both proximal (i.e., fairness perceptions) and distal (i.e., organizational intentions, test-taking motivation) applicant reaction outcomes. Results also demonstrated support for a mediating role of fairness perceptions in the relationships between privacy concerns and organizational intentions as well as between privacy concerns and test-taking motivation. Providing applicants with control and explanations were found to have no moderating effect on the relationship between privacy concerns and fairness perceptions. However, post-hoc analyses indicated that excuse explanations moderated the effect of privacy concerns on test-taking motivation. Theoretical implications of this dissertation include support for a one-factor model of organizational justice as well as a call for more integration of research from outside of industrial-organizational psychology. Additionally, areas for future research, including opportunities for improvement of study design involving timing of measures, are presented. Finally, implications for practice are discussed in regard to the possible impact of privacy concerns to large numbers of applicants participating in Internet-based selection processes, including a discussion on the importance of applicant privacy concerns to organizations and the use of multiple, inexpensive methods that may aid organizations in increasing fairness perceptions among applicants.

Previous research highlighted that Internet use, in particular online information<p>retrieval and discussions, can facilitate offline collective actions (Boulianne, 2009).<p>Recently, however, the Internet also has been criticized for encouraging low-cost and lowrisk<p>online collective actions—slacktivism—that may have detrimental consequences for<p>groups that aim to achieve a collective purpose (Gladwell, 2010). More precisely, it is<p>argued that actions such as “liking” Facebook pages or posting ingroup-endorsing<p>comments online make users instantly feel good, satisfy their need to act, and derail<p>participation in offline collective actions (Lee & Hsieh, 2013; Morozov, 2009).<p>In my thesis, I assessed this postulation as well as the underlying processes and<p>boundary conditions of the relationship between so-called slacktivist actions and offline<p>collective actions. After introducing a conceptualization of slacktivism as expressive lowthreshold<p>online collective actions, I investigated its influence on offline engagement<p>(Study 1, N = 634; Study 2, N = 76; Study 3, N = 63; Study 4, N = 48). Results indicated that<p>expressive low-threshold online collective actions reduce the willingness to join offline<p>collective actions. This effect was mediated by the satisfaction of group-enhancing<p>motives; members considered the online actions as a substantial contribution to the<p>group's success. The demobilizing impact of expressive low-threshold online collective<p>actions was qualified when members took the online actions in the co-presence of the<p>ingroup, all parties being mutually identifiable (Study 5a, N = 84; Study 5b, N = 99). In this<p>context, obligatory interdependencies between members were enhanced and fostered a<p>spill-over from online to offline collective actions (Study 6, N = 62). / Doctorat en Sciences Psychologiques et de l'éducation / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:40:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rosa Maria Farah.pdf: 1905344 bytes, checksum: 41ca6bf65c00f7e36c2a67f5668fe317 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-18 / The objective of this work is to describe behaviors and experiences of the Internet users according to observations made during the coordination of the NPPI Núcleo de Pesquisas da Psicologia em Informática (Center for Psychological Research about Informatics), which is part of the Clinical School of the Psychology Department at PUC-SP. The behaviors and situations described were qualitatively analyzed having the concepts of Analytical Psychology as a reference. The work starts with a revision of the material that has been published about the Internet and its developments, and this material comes from different psychological schools. Many publications from other areas are listed (philosophy, sociology, etc), since they also study the psychological factors that are present in the analysis of the Internet usage. A few Jungian works related to the topic are presented as well. A brief summary about the creation and development of computers and the Web and their effects on the relationship man &#56256;&#56517;&#56256;&#56518; machine is used to examine the relationship between the evolution of new technologies and the development of consciousness considered as processes that occur synchronically. The fifth chapter presents concepts and ideas proposed about the cyberspace as a psychic space. After that, it discusses the notion of a virtual body and presents examples about the presence of the images related to technology in dreams that people have nowadays. The cyberspace is occupied by the internauts who use it as a stage for expressing conflicts, as well as a place for experimenting with new forms for structuring the subjectivity and for establishing relationships and connections. On the other hand, we also notice attempts to create new forms of knowledge, through the use of resources and tools that allow for activities in group and that are offered by the communication made possible through informatization. The last topics of the fifth chapter offer a picture of these expressions in the field of virtuality / O objetivo deste trabalho é descrever comportamentos e vivências dos usuários da Internet, de acordo com observações feitas durante a coordenação do NPPI - Núcleo de Pesquisas da Psicologia em Informática, o Serviço de Informática da Clinica Escola da PUC-SP. O método adotado foi a Observação Participante. Os comportamentos e vivências descritos foram analisados qualitativamente segundo o referencial da Psicologia Analítica. O trabalho se inicia por uma revisão da literatura da qual constam publicações sobre o tema Internet e seus desdobramentos, fundamentadas em diferentes enfoques psicológicos. São relacionadas publicações de áreas afins (filosofia, sociologia etc.) por conterem estudos que tangenciam fatores psicológicos envolvidos na análise dos usos da Internet. Ao final, são apresentados trabalhos junguianos referentes ao tema. Na sequência, insere-se breve histórico sobre a criação e desenvolvimento dos computadores e da WEB e suas repercussões para a relação homem &#56256;&#56517;&#56256;&#56518; máquina, com o objetivo de relacionar a evolução das novas tecnologias ao desenvolvimento da consciência, como processos que ocorrem em sincronia. Compondo o quinto capítulo são apresentados inicialmente conceitos e proposições sobre o ciberespaço como espaço psíquico. Em seguida, a noção do corpo virtual e ilustrações sobre a presença de imagens referentes à tecnologia nos sonhos da atualidade. O ciberespaço é ocupado pelos internautas como palco de expressão de conflitos e de ensaio de novas formas de estruturação da subjetividade, estabelecimento de vínculos e relacionamentos em renovadas expressões. Como contraponto, observa-se a experimentação de alternativas de construção do conhecimento, com a utilização dos recursos e ferramentas colaborativas oferecidas pela comunicação informatizada. Os últimos itens do quinto capítulo compõem um painel ilustrativo sobre essas expressões do ser humano no campo da virtualidade