دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی سوءاستفاده از سیاست های سازماندهی IS با سیستم های مهلک: یک مورد در چین - امرالد 2017

Abstract

Purpose: To investigate how selected employees in China deliberately subvert organizational IS Policy by developing feral working practices in order to gain access to the applications that they believe essential to work. Design: Interpretive Case Study Findings: Employees cannot accept the limited IT policy/environment imposed by corporate management and develop their own workarounds that subvert the organizational IT policy so as to ensure that they can get work done Research Implications: We draw on elements of punctuated equilibrium theory to conceptualize our findings into four theoretical propositions. We encourage researchers to probe these organizational practices and solutions in depth. Practical Implications: Organizations cannot expect their digital native employees to leave their social media culture at home when they come to work. Social media penetrates all aspects of their lives and in all locations. Therefore, organizations must find a way to permit its use at work. Originality: Subversion is a rarely studied topic in IS research, or in business/management more generally. Our focus on the subversive behaviour of organizational employees is original and important for we suggest that subversive behaviour may be more common than the limited literature suggests.

8. Conclusion

Employee subversion of corporate IS policy is not a topic that has received much attention from researchers. However, we suggest that this is a phenomenon that will become more salient as ever more digital natives enter the workforce and confront organizational cultures and values established under the aegis of senior managers accustomed to very different normative behaviours. Given the extent to which social media applications and other forms of IS are embedded into the lives of digital natives, it would be naïve to expect these same people to amputate integral parts of their lives and personalities: instead, we should expect them to fight to retain access to the same social media applications, whether for work or nonwork purposes. Digitally literate employees have a considerable repertoire of resources and skills at hand to secure the optimal working environment, irrespective of corporate IS policy or mandate. In this paper, we have explored how digital native employees in the Chinese operations of a global hotel chain subvert a restrictive corporate IS policy, securing access to the resources they insist they need. We also identify some theoretical components of the phenomenon that merit future investigation. We anticipate the strong need for more research into the feral systems developed by bricolage-oriented employees who baulk at nothing to gain access to the technologies that they deem essential to their work.