TY - GEN
T1 - Social Transparency in Enterprise Information Systems
T2 - 6th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-Cultural Computing, BESC 2019
AU - Alsaedi, Tahani
AU - Stefanidis, Angelos
AU - Phalp, Keith
AU - Ali, Raian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - Social transparency within an organisation refers to the intentional sharing by individuals of information relating to themselves and their group to others in the workplace. This includes announcing personal interests, activity status, priorities and personal achievements. Such transparency is typically intended to increase relatedness, motivation and trust amongst colleagues. Social networking features are being embedded within organisational information systems, allowing an online version of social transparency. An ad-hoc implementation of such transparency can pose issues such as information overload, motivating unwanted grouping amongst colleagues and increasing pressure to perform in a certain manner. This results in organisational problems such as reduced productivity, unproductive competition and high turnover rates. Our ultimate aim is to address these issues by proposing an assessment method for online social transparency to detect and minimise its negative impact on employees and organisations. In this paper, we report on empirical study results and present (1) a set of peculiarities of implementing online transparency in enterprise information systems and (2) a set of essential factors that relate to the assessment process.
AB - Social transparency within an organisation refers to the intentional sharing by individuals of information relating to themselves and their group to others in the workplace. This includes announcing personal interests, activity status, priorities and personal achievements. Such transparency is typically intended to increase relatedness, motivation and trust amongst colleagues. Social networking features are being embedded within organisational information systems, allowing an online version of social transparency. An ad-hoc implementation of such transparency can pose issues such as information overload, motivating unwanted grouping amongst colleagues and increasing pressure to perform in a certain manner. This results in organisational problems such as reduced productivity, unproductive competition and high turnover rates. Our ultimate aim is to address these issues by proposing an assessment method for online social transparency to detect and minimise its negative impact on employees and organisations. In this paper, we report on empirical study results and present (1) a set of peculiarities of implementing online transparency in enterprise information systems and (2) a set of essential factors that relate to the assessment process.
KW - Enterprise Social Software
KW - Organisational Information Systems
KW - Social Computing
KW - Social Transparency
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85077497918&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/BESC48373.2019.8963048
DO - 10.1109/BESC48373.2019.8963048
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85077497918
T3 - BESC 2019 - 6th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-Cultural Computing, Proceedings
BT - BESC 2019 - 6th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-Cultural Computing, Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 28 October 2019 through 30 October 2019
ER -