While the introduction of the Internet facilitated communication channels at the workplace to improve employees’ productivity, it also raised new challenges, such as cyberslacking. The problem that this research study addresses is mobile device cyberslacking at the workplace as it relates to productivity. A mobile cyberslacking-commitment taxonomy (MCCT) was developed to classify employees’ potential for productivity based on the self-reported frequency of cyberslacking (FCyS) and employee’s commitment to the organization (EC2O). Results of a Web-based survey showed that employees were dispersed across the developed taxonomy, with 4.91% identified as potentially problematic. Significant differences between the constructs and demographics suggest that an employee’s potential for productivity is affected by age, gender, education level, and industry type. The results of this study contributed to information systems’ (IS) body of knowledge by providing researchers and practitioners a novel benchmarking tool of the MCCT to enable the measure of productivity in the context of the workplace.

Senior citizens are one of the most vulnerable groups of Internet users who are prone to cyberattacks. Thus, assessing senior citizens’ motivation to acquire cybersecurity skills is critical to help them understand the risks of cyber-attacks. This study investigated a set of constructs that contribute to senior citizens’ motivation to acquire cybersecurity skills and assessed the actual cybersecurity skill level of these individuals. Utilizing a Web-based survey and a hands-on scenario-based app called MyCyberSkills™, this research study measured the constructs of interest before and after cybersecurity awareness training. Study participants were 254 senior citizens with a mean age of approximately 70 years. The results indicated that the cybersecurity awareness training was effective in increasing the cybersecurity skill level of the senior citizens and empowered them with small but significant improvements in the requisite skills to take mitigating actions against cyberattacks. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Providing timely and cost-effective healthcare appears to be significantly desired. Factors such as computer skills and comprehension of instructions impact people’s perception of the accessibility of such alternatives, especially for medical professionals. There are limited studies examining the aforementioned factors in information systems (IS) literature in the context of medical teleconferencing (ehealth) from the patients’ perspective. Thus, the purpose of this research study was to examine the underlying structure of four factors, namely IS usage (ISU), computer self-efficacy (CSE), ethical severity of misusing IS (ESMIS), and the resistance to use IS (RESUIS). Based on data gathered from 140 participants, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted, using the partial least squares (PLS) technique. Results indicated a very strong validity and reliability of the constructs, however, with a relatively low overall model predictability. Furthermore, the constructs of CSE and RESUIS appear to demonstrate significant contribution toward ISU.

Security and ethical issues with information systems (IS) are important concerns for most organizations. However, limited attention has been given to unethical behaviors and severity of cyber-security attacks, while these instances appear to be critically important. Although managers have been embracing e-learning systems for training and virtual-team collaborations, little is known about motivations for cyber-security attacks on such systems.Our research includes quantitative and qualitative study of 519 end-users who rated the ethical severity of five common cyber-security attacks. This study investigated five types of security attacks for differences in perceived severity according to gender, academic level, and age. Our findings reveal that the majority of users (90%) reported their sense of severity as unethical across all five cyber-security attacks, while only a small minority of users (3.24%) reported these cyber-security attacks to be ethical. This study also presents a further grounded analysis through follow-up interviews.