The Business Case for Employee Privacy. Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Employee Privacy on Empowerment, Creativity, and Job Satisfaction

1. The Business Case for Employee Privacy The Ethical Challenge of Employee Privacy – An Analytical Approach to the Privacy Challenge – Making the Business Case for Employee Privacy 2. Conceptualization of Employee Privacy The Relationship between Privacy and Control – The Balance between Achieved and Desired Privacy – Perceived vs. Objective Privacy – Privacy Regulation Behaviors 3. Development of a Measure of Employee Privacy The Development of Measures – Development of the Initial Items – Validation of the Measure – Final Measure of Employee Privacy 4. The Effects of Privacy on Creativity and Job Satisfaction Privacy and Creativity – Privacy and Job Satisfaction – The Mediating Effects of Empowerment – The Control Variables and their Effects 5. Empirical Test of the Effects of Privacy Research Setting, Participants, and Procedures – The Measures – Statistical Procedures – Results of the Empirical Analysis 6. Discussion of the Results Summary of the Results – Limitations and Implications for Research – Managerial Implications Appendix A–D Statistics and Tests – Tables – German Questionnaire – English Questionnaire Bibliography Index