Bolhari, A., & Bolhari, A. (2018, June), IT Ethics and the Role of Perceived Possibility of Disclosure: An Interventional Research  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah. 10.18260/1-2--30738

\bibitem{asee_peer_30738}
  Bolhari, A., \& Bolhari, A. (2018, June), \emph{IT Ethics and the Role of Perceived Possibility of Disclosure: An Interventional Research}
  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah.
  10.18260/1-2--30738

Alireza Bolhari and Azadeh Bolhari P.E..  "IT Ethics and the Role of Perceived Possibility of Disclosure: An Interventional Research".  2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2018.  https://peer.asee.org/30738 Internet.  19 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_30738}
  Alireza Bolhari and Azadeh Bolhari P.E..
  "IT Ethics and the Role of Perceived Possibility of Disclosure: An Interventional Research".
  \emph{2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2018.
  https://peer.asee.org/30738 Internet.  19 Dec, 2024

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month = "June"
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Since the evolution of information technology, concerns have been raised to unethical IT conducts and their significant monetary and non-monetary losses for corporations. To date, a number of endeavors have been undertaken to model individuals' IT ethical behaviors. Perceived importance of the ethical issue, ethical judgment, ethical obligation, ego strength, codes of ethics, and law are some of the influencing factors. A relatively new factor, which needs further empirical examinations, is perceived possibility of disclosure, i.e. the possibility one perceives about disclosing either the unethical behavior or its consequences to others. The objective of this research is to practically examine the influence of perceived possibility of disclosure on ethical conducts in an IT context. Accordingly, an interventional research (pre-post study) is designed and data were gathered from 347 computer stations in an IT-centric company in Iran. Due to the company's codes of ethics, six categories of unethical IT-related behaviors were defined as a) surfing social media, b) checking personal emails, c) sending organizational documents without authorized tools, d) sharing video or music files in local network, e) stockbroking, and f) installing non-job-related software on computers. Two non-simultaneous phases with duration of three months were examined. In the first phase, a total number of 906 unethical behaviors were observed by means of company-wide log-systems. Subsequently, for the second phase, every personnel were formally informed that their working behavior with computer stations is systematically monitored. Then, all computer stations were monitored for another three months and 155 unethical behaviors were observed. Results revealed that in comparison with the first phase, by average more than 81% of unethical behaviors were reduced. In addition, the most three reductions in unethical behaviors were surfing social media (98.63%), checking personal emails (91.95%), and sharing files (83.94%), respectively. Finally, practical solutions to decrease the risk of unethical conducts in the domain of perceived possibility of disclosure in an IT context are discussed.
AU  - Alireza Bolhari
AU  - Azadeh Bolhari P.E.
CY  - Salt Lake City, Utah
DA  - 2018/06/23
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - IT Ethics and the Role of Perceived Possibility of Disclosure: An Interventional Research
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DO  - 10.18260/1-2--30738
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