Employee perceptions of BYOD in South Africa: Employers are turning a blind eye?

Hossana Twinomurinzi; Tendani Mawela

doi:10.1145/2664591.2664607

Employee perceptions of BYOD in South Africa: Employers are turning a blind eye?

Hossana Twinomurinzi, Tendani Mawela

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Abstract

As mobile Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) become greater entrenched in society and with the nature of work changing, more and more international organizations are embracing and/or considering formalizing the phenomenon of 'Bring Your Own Device' (BYOD). The GIST of BYOD is the use of privately owned devices and software to access and work with organizational resources. There is however little that is known about the degree to which organizations in South Africa are embracing the BYOD phenomenon. In this paper, we explored how employees in organizations in South Africa perceive the use of their privately owned devices for work. The results from 61 employees suggest that there is a strong awareness of the BYOD concept among employees. Employees also appear to believe that although their employers are aware of the use of privately owned devices for work, the employers are reluctant to formally create BYOD organizational strategies. The findings suggest that the laxity of employers in South Africa to deal with the BYOD phenomenon as an issue of strategic importance could result in considerable security challenges for organizational data.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Editors	Helene Gelderblom, J.P. van Deventer, Aurona Gerber, Machdel C. Matthee
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	126-131
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450332460
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2664591.2664607
Publication status	Published - 29 Sept 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	Southern African Institute for Computer Scientist and Information Technologists Annual Conference, SAICSIT 2014 - Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa Duration: 28 Sept 2014 → 1 Oct 2014

Publication series

Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume	28-September-2014

Conference

Conference	Southern African Institute for Computer Scientist and Information Technologists Annual Conference, SAICSIT 2014
Country/Territory	South Africa
City	Centurion, Gauteng
Period	28/09/14 → 1/10/14

Keywords

BYOD
ICT Consumerisation
ICT Managers
ZAF

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Networks and Communications

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Twinomurinzi, H., & Mawela, T. (2014). Employee perceptions of BYOD in South Africa: Employers are turning a blind eye? In H. Gelderblom, J. P. van Deventer, A. Gerber, & M. C. Matthee (Eds.), ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (pp. 126-131). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 28-September-2014). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2664591.2664607

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Twinomurinzi, H & Mawela, T 2014, Employee perceptions of BYOD in South Africa: Employers are turning a blind eye? in H Gelderblom, JP van Deventer, A Gerber & MC Matthee (eds), ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, vol. 28-September-2014, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 126-131, Southern African Institute for Computer Scientist and Information Technologists Annual Conference, SAICSIT 2014, Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa, 28/09/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2664591.2664607

Employee perceptions of BYOD in South Africa: Employers are turning a blind eye? / Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Mawela, Tendani.
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. ed. / Helene Gelderblom; J.P. van Deventer; Aurona Gerber; Machdel C. Matthee. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 126-131 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 28-September-2014).

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