Does Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Adoption Impact on Work Performance?
- February 10, 2020
- Posted by: RSIS
- Categories: Business Management, IJRISS
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue I, January 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186
Does Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Adoption Impact on Work Performance?
RMMD Pemarathna
Department of Business Management, Sri Lanka Rajarata University, Sri Lanka
Abstract: Nowadays, Bring Your Own Device is the warmest topic in enterprise mobility. It is benefited for the public and private organization through increasing productivity. Thus, the study mainly focused to answer the question “Does Bring Your Own Device adoption impact on the work performance of the employees in Bring Your Own Device -friendly environment?”. In order to conduct the study for identifying Bring Your Own Device adoption and its impact on work performance of the employees, primary data collection method was applied to collect data from 30 respondents in private and public sector which is relating to employees’ performance and Bring Your Own Device adoption. The result was highlighted that Bring Your Own Device adoption impact on the employees’ performance of the organization. And it is recommended for the public and private organizations to adopt this phenomenon to increase their employee performance and reduce the expenses of the organization.
Key Words: Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), Work Performance, BYOD-Friendly environment, BYOD adoption
I. INTRODUCTION
As traditional practices are changing, new patterns emerge in the technological landscape with incredible shifts within the working world. Cultural revolutions, social and environmental concerns and technological expansions are combining to re-shape working conventions of the organizations. With pervasive spreads of mobile devices and drops in the prices of the services provided by the mobile networks has been utterly changed the long-term and short-term activities of the organizations(1). In recently, devices such as smart phones, laptops and tablet computers are becoming tools with common practices, widespread access to high speed internet for the businesses(2). Furthermore, Harris, Fjermestad, Patten, and Regan (2012) highlighted that mobile phones and tablet PCs are evolving faster and mobility is becoming an essential part of business operations (as cited (3)) and as trend organizations allow employees to use their personal devices and most of employees are engaged with devices to personal and professional purposes (4). The current statistics underlined that 59 percent of organizations allow employees to use their own devices for the work purposes, while 13 percent of organizations planned to allow use within a year(5). Moreover, Syntonic reported that 87 percent companies rely on their employee’s ability to access mobile business apps from their personal smart phones and six out of 10 companies had a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)-friendly policy in place(6).
