Effectiveness Of Justice-Based Measures In Managing Trust And Privacy Concerns On Social Networking Sites: An Intercultural Perspective

The unprecedented success of social networking sites (SNSs) has been recently overshadowed by concerns about privacy risks. As SNS users grow weary of privacy breaches and thus develop distrust, they may restrict or even terminate their platform activities. In the long run, these developments endanger SNS platforms’ financial viability and undermine their ability to create individual and social value. By applying a justice perspective, this study aims to understand the means at the disposal of SNS providers to leverage the privacy concerns and trusting beliefs of their users—two important determinants of user participation on SNSs. Considering that SNSs have a global appeal, empirical tests assess the effectiveness of justice measures for three culturally distinct countries: Germany, Russia and Morocco. The results indicate that these measures are particularly suited to address trusting beliefs of SNS audience. Specifically, in all examined countries, procedural justice and the awareness dimension of informational justice improve perceptions of trust in the SNS provider. Privacy concerns, however, are not as easy to manage, because the impact of justice-based measures on privacy concerns is not universal. Beyond theoretical value, this research offers valuable practical insights into the use of justice-based measures to promote trust and mitigate privacy concerns in a cross-cultural setting

THE EFFECTS OF FOUNDATION COURSE AND AGE IN DECISION TECHNOLOGY THE EFFECTS OF FOUNDATION COURSE AND AGE IN DECISION TECHNOLOGY TRAINING EFFECTIVENESS

In business, decision technologies are commonly and widely used among managers and analysts. The lack of skills surrounding this decision technology can create organization disadvantages. Therefore, effective training would hopefully prevent these disadvantages from such ubiquitous technology and potentially provide a competitive advantage for those organizations adopting training. Based on behavior modeling, “Improving Computer Training Effectiveness of Decision Technologies: Behavior Modeling and Retention Enhancement” Yi and Davis (2001) indicated that a combination of retention enhancement and hands-on practice produced better cognitive outcomes. Since information technology is dynamic, and time sensitivity is its critical issue, the effects of age among participants were examined

Factors Affecting Local People Participation in Forest Managed for Carbon Sequestration: The Case of Mount Damota, Southern Ethiopia

The main purpose of this study is to examine factors affecting local people participation in forest managed for carbon sequestration in the case of Mount Damta of Southern Ethiopia.The data were collected through document analysis, field observation, focus group discussions, key informant interview and by surveying 146 randomly selected households. The collected data were analyzed by using descriptive statistic, participation index and binary logistic regression. The study indicated that the level of participation of the local people was low in terms of attending the selected activities of the four stages of the forest management.However,majority of respondents participated in implementation phase activities.The level of participation of the local people was found being determined byage, sex, family size;training and education positively while land holding size, wealth, a distance from the forest and membership in executive committee negatively.Therefore, further efforts have to be made to enable the local people active participants in all processes of the forest management project. Keywords: Forest Management, Local People Participation, Mount Damot

Regeneration Status of Acacia polyacantha and Boswellia Papyrifera Species in Shimelegir Forest, Jawi District, Ethiopia

The study focusing on regeneration status of “Gemarda Gerare”Acacia polyacantha and “Walia”Boswellia papyrifera (Del.)species which conducted in Shimelegir Forest, Jawi Woreda, Awi Administration Zone, Ethiopia from October, 2012 to February, 2014. The general objective of the study was to explore density and regeneration status of those species. A systematic sampling procedure was employed to generate the data like height and DBH of the tree. Accordingly, a total of 36 quadrants, each with the size of 25 m x 25 m at an interval of 350 m were laid out along the established transect line with between 500m apart. Two sub quadrants having size of 5 m x 2 m at two sides of every main quadrant to assess seedlings and saplings. Hipsometer and caliper were used to measure hight and DBH of the tree respectively. The data was processed and analysed by using Micriosoft excal 2008.  The results show that the total density of Acacia polyacantha and Boswellia papyrifera was 24 and 56 Nha-1 respectively. The regeneration capacity of Acacia polyacantha displays an inverted “J” shape distribution with poor regeneration and good recruitment status and Boswellia papyrifera showed a bell shape population structure with poor regeneration and recruitment. Keywords: Acacia polyacantha, Boswellia papyrifera, Density, Regeneration, Shimelegir state forest

Participation of People in Participatory Forest Management in Jawi District, North West, Ethiopia

The study intended to coduct on determinant factors for participation in participatory forest management in Shimelegir Forest, Jawi district, Awi Administration Zone, Ethiopia from October, 2012 to February, 2014. By using stratified random sampling method, 151 households were selected to carry out a questionnaire survey with the aim to generate data on the socio-economic and physical conditions. Binary logistic regressions, STATA version 16, were used to analyze willingness of participation. From explanatory variables, land holding size (7%), livestock owned by respondents (1.7%), poverty (53%), understanding about the CBO (40%), education (27%) and gender (30%) were found to have a significant effect on participation and significant power to influence household decision on participation. Distance from market and distance from forest, HH size and age found to have insignificant effect on the decision of participation. Hence, different stackhoolder should conceder those factors specially; the researcher was come upwith as insignificant effect on peoples to decide participating in participatory forest management user group. Keywords: Participatory Forest Management, socioeconomic and biophysical factors and Shimelegir state fores

Focus Issue on Legacy Information Systems and Business Process Change:The Role of Stakeholders in Managing Change

To manage organisational change in the context of legacy information systems, which may need replacement or revision, the strategy process should respond to corporate opportunity rather than past internal difficulties. Steering groups are often used to guide the strategy process. An important problem is the identification of appropriate stakeholders that need to be represented on the steering group. A related problem is to establish the boundary of the new information system. Computer Information Systems development often focuses on direct users and affected internal departments as the exclusive stakeholders. However these groups may present too narrow a perspective. To improve the effectiveness of the development process, a wider constituency should be considered that includes organisational partners in the wider business environment. This paper presents a method, the stakeholder web, that identifies appropriate stakeholders and their viewpoints. It illustrates the concepts with a large-scale university information systems project. The stakeholder web is used to analyse the relationships between the activities and membership of a university information systems steering group over a five-year period. The results demonstrate the dynamic nature of the project and the associated changes in membership of the steering group

Local Participation in Community Forest Associations: A Case Study of Sururu and Eburu Forests, Kenya

Participation of local communities in the management and utilization of state-owned forest resources has become widely recognized in contrast to centralised forms of forest governance. This paper examined the extent of inclusiveness and household participation in community forest associations (CFAs) adjacent to Sururu and Eburu forests in Kenya. The probit model was used to assess the socio-economic factors determining participation in the CFAs. The study established that gender (P<0.05), group membership (P<0.0001), ownership of tree nursery (P<0.0001), wealth status (P<0.0001), percentage share of wage income (P<0.05), and farm size allocated to trees (P<0.05) significantly influenced CFA participation. However, because of high opportunity participation costs some poor (68%) and rich (65%) households did not participate in CFA activities. Since households participated in CFAs to derive livelihood gains, unclear participation benefits offered little incentive to get involved. Thus participation in CFA activities remained low. Therefore, Kenya Forest Service should review participation guidelines to enable effective CFA input in decision making on forest issues. Keywords: Community; inclusiveness; household; participation; user groups; participatory forest managemen

Pratiques de gestion mobilisatrices et implantation d’un système d’information : Une évaluation qualitative

Dans cet article, nous présentons une partie des résultats d’une recherche qualitative dont l’un des objectifs était de mettre en évidence le rôle joué par certaines pratiques de gestion mobilisatrices, comme la communication, la participation, la formation, le soutien et la reconnaissance des efforts, dans l’adhésion des employés à l’implantation d’un système d’information (SI). Cependant, ces pratiques peuvent être perçues différemment par chaque employé selon leur crédibilité, adéquation, pertinence ou opportunité et prises en compte dans le processus d’évaluation qui conduit à la formation de son attitude à l’égard du SI. Pour explorer ce phénomène, nous avons réalisé deux études de cas dans deux organismes publics au Québec au cours desquelles nous avons effectué des entrevues semi-structurées en profondeur auprès de vingt employés. Ce texte présente les résultats de l’analyse du contenu de ces entrevues.Following the research of Lawler III (1992), several authors have acknowledged a mobilization potential in human resources processes and management practices related to communication, training, support, participation, and recognition of effort. In this article, we present part of the results of a qualitative research project of which one of the objectives was to underline the role potentially played by these management practices in employee support for implementation of an information system (IS).Starting from the alarming record of failure in the implementation of information systems within organizations (O’Conner, Parsons and Liden, 1992; Henderson, Deane and Ward, 1995; Standish Group, 1999, 2001), and the highlighting of the importance of the role of human factors in the failure or the success of these technological changes, notably those related to the acceptance and the adaptation of information system users (Paré and Elam, 1995; Martinsons and Chong, 1999; Guérin et al., 2001), we postulated the consideration of human factors in the framework of HR mobilization strategies as the prerequisite and necessary condition to the efficient and effective usage of an IS, which is also recognized as a success criterion for the implementation of an IS (DeLone and MacLean, 1992, 2003).From this angle, and in the framework of an IS implementation, communication may be designed to bring employees closer to their managers and directors, to explain the organizational vision, the reasons, the goals, and the anticipated results or effects of the technological change, on the basis of credible and accurate information which does not hide the risks, the difficulties and the potential negative aspects for employees. IS training can be planned to develop the employee’s competencies, on the basis of his level of education and the experience he has already acquired, and to prepare him in this way to use the IS while at the same time developing his self-confidence, and his sense of personal efficiency. Human and technical support may reassure the employee as to his capacities and encourage him or her to persevere in his utilization of the system when the time comes. The employee’s participation, at any level, in decisions concerning the implementation project can only stimulate his interest and his involvement as related to the IS. Finally, recognition for adaptation efforts put forth may improve employee commitment towards his managers, and their organizational objectives. However, all of these practices are perceived in a particular way by each individual employee according to their credibility, adequacy, pertinence, opportunity or interest and are taken into account in the evaluation process which leads to the development of the employee’s attitude and his intention as concerns the IS and its utilization. Thus, the objective of this research is precisely to explore this phenomenon so as to identify the conditions which could encourage user support and thus improve the success of IS implementations. To this end, we carried out two case studies of IS implementations in two public sector organizations in Quebec. Ten employees took part in in-depth and semi-structured interviews at the implementation phase of the IS in each of the two organizations concerned.The analysis of the interview content shows that those management practices evaluated in a very opposite way by positive and negative employees are training, support received, incentives or recognition of effort. Employees who are positive towards the IS are generally very satisfied with training and support received, and are also quite aware of moral recognition (non-monetary), whereas the negative employees are very dissatisfied with training and support received, and are quite aware of the absence of monetary incentives or recognition. Communication and participation prove to be the preoccupations more specifically raised by employees having a negative attitude towards IS, and about which they express strong dissatisfaction, while the attitude of positive employees does not seem to be truly influenced by these two factors, except perhaps in that which concerns participation of key users.The limits of the research are pointed out and several recommendations have been made to assist managers involved in the management of an IS implementation within their organization to facilitate its acceptance by employees. The contribution of this research lies in the continuity of research on the acceptance or the adoption of new technologies by their users (Davis et al., 1989) while putting forward the influence of mobilization strategies on the support or on the rejection of the IS by users through personal and perceptual variables such as the sense of personal efficiency, personal involvement, the perceived quality of the IS, personal attitude and the image of superiors. The importance of this last factor seems to us to be able to rehabilitate interest in continuing to consider the role of social influence of organizational origin in the support and the mobilization of employees for using the IS, in conformity with the theory of reasoned action of Fishbein and Ajzen (1975). A model of emerging research has been proposed for future validation.Presentamos en este articulo una parte de los resultados de una investigación cualitativa que tuvo como uno de sus objetivos el poner en evidencia el rol jugado por ciertas prácticas de gestión movilizadoras como la comunicación, la participación, la formación, el soporte y el reconocimiento de los esfuerzos, para fomentar la adhesión de los empleados a la implantación de un sistema de información. Sin embargo, estas prácticas pueden ser percibidas de manera diferente por cada empleado según la credibilidad, adecuación, pertinencia u oportunidad de aquellas y ello puede ser tomado en cuenta en el proceso de evaluación que conduce a la formación de su actitud respecto al sistema de información. Para explorar este fenómeno, hemos realizado dos estudios de caso en dos organizaciones públicas de Quebec durante los cuales hemos efectuado entrevistas semi-estructuradas y en profundidad con veinte empleados. Este texto presenta los resultados del análisis de contenido de dichas entrevistas