The Bring Your Own Device Trend In An Oil And Gas Sector

In trying to improve worker efficiencies and organizational productivity, organizations leverage on tools that promote the consumerization of Information Technology. Among these, is the growing trend of implementing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) which allows employees to use their own devices for work related activities. Strategies and policies are put in place to guide the usage of such implementations and protect the organization from associated risks. User's may however not find such policies user friendly and may be inclined to resist the BYOD implementation. The project studies and seeks to understand how the implementation of such BYOD policies by an Organization brings about concerning factors otherwise viewed as perceived threats that may bring about a resistance to user's adoption of the technology. It further goes to determine to what extent such concerns influence employee's decisions to either embrace a BYOD program or reject the BYOD program.