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The aim was to identify if the elements of the service encounter and technostress creators affect the perceived service quality provided by internal information technology department, through the realization of a theoretical and empirical research. Quantitative and descriptive in its approach, the study was conducted with 138 users of IT services who work at a federal organization operating in the state of Espírito Santo. This research tested the direct influence of the three elements of service encounter (i.e. service product, service delivery and service environment) and four causal factors of technostress (techno-overload, techno-invasion, techno-complexity and techno-uncertainty). In addition, the research tested whether the individual characteristics of users (i.e. gender, age, education, current experience, previous experience and location of work) produced statistically significant differences when compared to their perception of the overall quality of services. The results generated through multiple regression showed that the overall quality of services was explained by the service product, service environment, service delivery and techno-complexity variables. Upon comparison, the statistical averages inferred that employees who work in decentralized organizational units, specializing in public service, rated the overall quality of services more positively.

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This research presents the relationship between the technostress creators factors and the perceived quality of the services provided by internal information technology departments. To this end, multiple linear regressions were performed, from a sample containing 927 responses of IT service users. The participants work in 14 different Brazilian public institutions, allocated throughout the 5 regions of the country and are strongly dependent on information technology in their business processes. The results show that the service delivery, the service product and the service environment have explanatory power on the overall quality of services. In addition, data revealed that techno-invasion, the technostress creator factor referring to users' feeling that their personal life is being invaded by information technology, was negatively related to the general quality of service. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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