Factors that affect the use of online application program “Hafiz” to search for job in Saudi Arabia

Other Title(s)

النية لاستخدام برنامج حافز على الإنترنت للبحث عن وظيفة في المملكة العربية السعودية

Dissertant

al-Sunayd, Sad Abd Allah

Thesis advisor

Awwad, Muhammad Sulayman Uqlah

University

Mutah University

Faculty

Faculty of Business

Department

Department of Business Administration

University Country

Jordan

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2012

English Abstract

This study aim is to investigate the factors that affect the intention of job seekers to use online application program “Hafiz” to search for a job in Saudi Arabia.

Some users may use the service for a period of time.

Then, they will not continue using the service.

Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) developed by Davis (1989) was adopted in this study, which consists of two endogenous variables (perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness), a mediator variable (attitude) and the exogenous variable (intention to use).

To achieve this objective, several hypotheses were formulated and tested using Smart PLS 2.0 M3release to determine the interactions between the various factors.

A survey was conducted using a questionnaire that was adopted to measure the variables of the study based on previous studies, this questionnaire was distributed electronically to a judgmental sample of job seekers using online application program“ Hafiz” in cooperation with the Saudi Ministry of Labor.

385questionnaireswere suitable for analysis.

The results showed that the perceived ease of use of online application program “Hafiz” has a direct positive effect on the attitudes of users towards this program and on perceived usefulness from this program.

The perceived ease of use has a positive and indirect effect(through perceived usefulness and attitudes) on the intention of job seekers to use this program.

There sults also indicated that the perceived usefulness of using this program has a positive and direct effect on the user attitudes toward this program and a positive and indirect effect (through attitudes) on the intention of job seekers to use this program.

Finally users’ attitudes have a positive and direct effect on the users’ intentions to use this program in the future.

Based on the study findings and conclusions, a number of implications.

Future research should attempt to replicate the study on the case of different countries with different cultures to enable the comparisons.

Furthermore, another direction for future research is a more extensive observation of the subject.

This might be achieved by conducting research on different sectors of business

Main Subjects

Business Administration

No. of Pages

58

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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-793535