The Impact of Interruptions on Technology Usage: Exploring Interdependencies Between Demands from Interruptions, Worker Control, and Role-Based Stress

Stefan Tams (), Jason Thatcher and Manju Ahuja
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Stefan Tams: HEC Montréal, Department of Information Technologies
Jason Thatcher: Clemson University
Manju Ahuja: University of Louisville

A chapter in Information Systems and Neuroscience, 2015, pp 19-25 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Mobile technologies have dramatically increased the number of work-related interruptions. In many organizations, employees have to remain accessible and respond to these technology-mediated (T-M) interruptions even after regular work hours. At the same time, most employees have limited freedom to decide how and when they accomplish their tasks, a work condition that renders the explosion of T-M interruptions problematic. When people have limited control over their work environment, they cannot adapt their work schedules and methods to the additional demands from T-M interruptions, potentially leading them to be stressed and, in turn, to shy away from using the technologies that create these interruptions. Hence, we propose that demands from T-M interruptions negatively affect work-related IT-usage via workers’ experiences of stress and that this indirect effect depends on worker control. Psychological and physiological data (salivary cortisol and alpha-amylase) will be collected and analyzed through advanced procedures for testing moderated-mediation effects.

Keywords: Interruptions; Stress; Demand-control; Theory; IT use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-18702-0_3

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