When Job Candidates Experience Social Media Privacy Violations

Dianne Hall, John Drake, Shiwei Sun

OAI: oai:igi-global.com:312251 • DOI: 10.4018/JGIM.312251

This study uses a cross-cultural sample from the U.S. and China to compare information privacy-protective responses to a breach in privacy during a job interview. Using a job recruitment scenario, the relationships among individuals' concern for information privacy, disposition to trust, judgment of moral issues, and their information privacy-protective responses were examined. Based on the multiple group analysis results, this paper find that the privacy-protective responses significantly vary between the American and Chinese cultures. The findings shed light on individuals' responses to privacy issues in the United States and China.