Employee Information Privacy Concerns with Employer Held Data: A Comparison of Two Prevalent Privacy Models

The privacy stream of research has been studied considerably over the past 20 years. This included applying privacy questions to different online contexts such as health care, ecommerce, and government. The purpose of this article is to empirically compare and evaluate two prevalent privacy models; Concern for Information Privacy (CFIP) and Internet Users’ Information Privacy Concerns (IUIPC) within the organizational context of employment. By doing so, this research: I) evaluates the two privacy models to see which best predicts behavioral intention within an employee/employer relationship, and, 2) prescribes to organizations how individuals view the privacy of their information held by employers. This research extends the literature by validating IS privacy models in this new domain and provides valuable information to managers of information systems resources for organizations. Using a seeded sample of 457 employed individuals ranging in age from 18 to 71, the authors conclude that IUIPC is substantially superior for predicting behavioral intentions regarding employment privacy concerns.