THE EFFECT OF END USER PERCEPTIONS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGİES ON THE INFORMATİON SHARING

İbrahim PINAR, Özge MEHTAP, Esra ERZENGIN
2012 Journal of Global Strategic Management  
In recent decades, extant studies have focused on dominance of Information Technologies (IT) using different perspectives. While some of these studies utilized domains of IT management, remaining scholarly works dealt with issues of employee perceptions regarding IT usage and how IT usage affects employee outcomes such as job satisfaction. Accordingly, aim of this study is to explore and measure how IT related perceptions of employees determine the use and sharing of information they derive out
more » ... of using the system effectively. We conceptualized the perceptions in terms of perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, perceived self-efficacy and perceived information strenght loss. Employee satisfaction will be evaluated as a mediating variable between IT perceptions and information sharing resulting from these employee perceptions. We will test our model using a 114sample unit size of employees from 3 different universities. The obtained data are analyzed through SPSS. Relaibility, normality, factor and regression analysis was conducted in order to test the hypothesis. Whether we could not find any mediation effect of the satisfaction in the model; the results revealed that both the perceived usefulness and ease of use effect knowledge sharing through IT, however satisfaction is only effected by perceived usefulness.
doi:10.20460/jgsm.2012615784 fatcat:5d2qbjz4h5e6zkrwy3blvt4xte