Understanding Workplace Adoption of Social Networking Sites: Employers’ perspective

Studies on social networking sites (SNSs) rarely touched on the acceptance of SNS use in theworkplace. This study, in turn, attempts to fill this gap by explaining the acceptance of SNSuse in the workplace by proposing a research model for the acceptance of SNS use, based onthe technology acceptance model (TAM) and the theory of planned behavior (TPB), in orderto explain the intention of employers to adopt SNS use in the workplace. Structural equationmodeling (SEM) was used to examine the extent to which the perception of employers on thebenefits/usefulness, subjective norm, risks, and the ease of use of SNSs affect the intention toadopt the use of SNSs in the workplace. Data was collected from 81 employers in the U.S.The findings show that both perceived usefulness and perceived subjective norm are the maindeterminants of the intention to adopt social networking site use in the workplace.

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