A Perceptional Analysis of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) for Educational or Workplace Implementations in a South Korean Case

• DOI: 10.17275/per.19.12.6.2
• Publication Date: 2019-09-27T13:10:32Z
• Authors: Hasan Tinmaz; Jin Hwa Lee
• Keywords: Implementation

Asthe communication and information technologies (especially mobile devices) havebecome a central part of our daily lives, people have started bringing theirown devices to schools, universities, companies and other types of organization.With the difficulty of stopping people from carrying these devices, Bring YourOwn Device (BYOD) represents a paradigm shift, presenting new ways fororganizations to function and offering several advantages to businesses,notably a reduction in hardware costs. Although BYOD (allowing people to bringtheir technological devices to schools or workplaces) sounds simple in words,BYOD implementations come with their own challenges (security related problemsat first). This study aims to analyze the perceptions of a group of SouthKorean undergraduate and master students (n=110 in total) about BYODimplementations in schools and in workplace separately. The study instrumenthad three sections; (i) basic demographics (age, gender and currently attendingeducation level), (ii) 12 survey items on a Likert scale for BYOD perception atschool questions, and (iii) 12 survey items on a Likert scale for BYODperception at workplace questions. After the analyses of demographics, separateindependent sample t-tests were applied in order to check if each set of 12items for BYOD at school and at workplace significantly differ for gender andeducation level variables. While no significant difference was revealed basedon gender variable, education level demonstrated differences on certain items.At the end, the 12 items for BYOD at school and BYOD at workplace were comparedby applying paired samples t-tests to the dataset where significant differenceswere also observed for some items. The general results showed that participantssupported BYOD in schools more than BYOD at workplace. Besides, master studentsshowed more trust than undergraduate students on cyber-security both at schooland at workplace.