TY - GEN
T1 - Acceptance of online social networks as an HR staffing tool
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Multidisciplinary Social Networks Research, MISNC 2015
AU - Yeh, Chu Chen Rosa
AU - Gossmann, Karen Castellanos
AU - Tao, Yu Hui
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The popular online social networks are increasingly used by business organizations for various business activities. This research focused on the adoption of online social networks by human resources (HR) professionals as a tool in organizational staffing activities. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was the theoretical basis of this study which sought to investigate the issue with a multi-country sample. Online questionnaire invitations were sent to HR practitioners in Taiwan, India, Spain and Guatemala, which generated 101 valid responses. Partial least square-based structural equation modeling was used to fit the proposed model and test the research hypotheses. Results indicated that, as hypothesized, the perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and subjective norms in TAM model effectively explained HR practitioners’ behavioral intention to use online social networks for staffing activities in our sample. Limitations and future research were also discussed.
AB - The popular online social networks are increasingly used by business organizations for various business activities. This research focused on the adoption of online social networks by human resources (HR) professionals as a tool in organizational staffing activities. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was the theoretical basis of this study which sought to investigate the issue with a multi-country sample. Online questionnaire invitations were sent to HR practitioners in Taiwan, India, Spain and Guatemala, which generated 101 valid responses. Partial least square-based structural equation modeling was used to fit the proposed model and test the research hypotheses. Results indicated that, as hypothesized, the perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and subjective norms in TAM model effectively explained HR practitioners’ behavioral intention to use online social networks for staffing activities in our sample. Limitations and future research were also discussed.
KW - HR professionals
KW - HR staffing
KW - Online social networks
KW - TAM
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-662-48319-0_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-662-48319-0_6
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84946013507
SN - 9783662483183
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 70
EP - 79
BT - Multidisciplinary Social Networks Research - 2nd International Conference, MISNC 2015, Proceedings
A2 - Wang, Kai
A2 - Uesugi, Shiro
A2 - Wang, Leon
A2 - Okuhara, Koji
A2 - Ting, I-Hsien
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 1 September 2015 through 3 September 2015
ER -