Increasing Employees' Willingness to Share: Introducing Appeal Strategies for People Analytics

Increasingly digital workplaces enable advanced people analytics (PA) that can improve work, but also implicate privacy risks for employees. These systems often depend on employees sharing their data voluntarily. Thus, to leverage the potential benefits of PA, companies have to manage employees' disclosure decision. In literature, we identify two main strategies: increase awareness or apply appeal strategies. While increased awareness may lead to more conservative data handling, appeal strategies can promote data sharing. Yet, to our knowledge, no systematic overview of appeal strategies for PA exists. Thus, we develop an initial taxonomy of strategies based on a systematic literature review and interviews with 18 experts. We describe strategies in the dimensions of values, benefits, and incentives. Thereby, we present concrete options to increase the appeal of PA for employees.Comment: Peer-reviewed version accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB 2022

Strategies for Ethiopian Small Retailers Businesses To Succeed Beyond 3 Years

In Ethiopia, some small retail business owners (SRBOs) embark on initiatives without adequate preparation, which results in a risk of failure within the first three years. Grounded in the conceptual frameworks of resource-based views, dynamic-capabilities views, and relational views, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies used by SRBOs leaders to survive and grow beyond three years. The participants were four SRBOs from Ethiopia who succeeded in business for more than three years. Data were collected from semistructured interviews, company documents, observations, notes from data sources and analyzed using Yin’s 5-step data analysis process. Six themes emerged: business-centric knowledge, entrepreneurial skills, relationships and networking, innovation and creativity, customer-centric approach, and support system. A key recommendation for SRBOs is to develop strategies through business-centric knowledge to succeed. The implications for a positive social change include the potential for SRBOs to stimulate economic growth by creating jobs and generating income for the Ethiopian citizens and providing an expanded government infrastructure with increased tax revenues