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Understanding Attitudes Towards Computer Use in the Police Department of Pakistan
Author(s) -
Ellahi Abida,
Manarvi Irfan
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the electronic journal of information systems in developing countries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.41
H-Index - 18
ISSN - 1681-4835
DOI - 10.1002/j.1681-4835.2010.tb00297.x
Subject(s) - empirical research , service (business) , public relations , key (lock) , data collection , police department , survey research , knowledge management , psychology , business , political science , marketing , applied psychology , sociology , computer science , computer security , social science , criminology , philosophy , epistemology
The extraordinary rate of development in information technologies can bring additional costs and failure if psychological reactions and organizational factors are ignored by system designers. Therefore, this research study explores the key factors of police officers’ acceptance and attitudes through a research survey and by gathering empirical evidence based on the integrated research framework. Data collected from 200 respondents was tested against the research model. The findings confirm the good model fit by supporting four out of six hypotheses. The results lead to make several suggestions for the police sector and IT policy‐makers to use as guidelines for the future development of this service.