Abstract
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) refers to the provision and use of personal mobile devices by employees for both private and business purposes. Although there has been research on BYOD, little attention has been paid to employees' perception of threats to their personal information security (ISS) when using a BYOD, especially in a professional context. This article investigates employee coping strategies related to BYOD ISS threats in France. The results of a survey of 223 employees indicate that while perceived behavioral control exerts only direct effects on problem-focused (i.e., disturbance handling) and emotion-focused (i.e., self-preservation) coping strategies, ISS concern exhibits significant direct and moderating influences. Several security paradoxes could be identified, namely, discrepancies between the respondents' ISS concern and the adopted coping strategies. This article offers the first insights into the French context and can serve as a basis for comparisons in future research and to help improve employees' personal ISS in the professional context.
Highlights
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) refers to the provision and use of personal mobile devices by employees for both private and business purposes
The adoption of a disturbance handling strategy is only influenced by the perceived control of digital natives. These results suggest a security paradox, as threats pertaining to personal information and security concerns should—but do not—have any impact on this population
This paper aimed at better understanding coping strategies stemming from threats perceived by employees concerning the ISS of their personal data in a BYOD context
Summary
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) refers to the provision and use of personal mobile devices (smartphones, tablets or laptops) by employees for both private and business purposes This phenomenon reflects a growing “consumerization” trend in information technology (IT), i.e., the adoption in a work context of consumer market technologies (Harris et al, 2012; Jarrahi et al, 2017). BYOD is of particular interest in that it is said to increase employees’ motivation, satisfaction, innovation, levels of comfort, and performance (Harris et al, 2012), offering new productivity gains at the organizational level (Köffer et al, 2015) while reducing technological costs (Singh, 2012) This phenomenon raises technical, security and legal problems (Harris et al, 2012) and entails actual risks for the information security (ISS) of end users’ data and devices.
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