The Impact of Organizational Commitment on Insiders Motivation to Protect Organizational Information Assets

Author List: Posey, Clay; Roberts, Tom L; Lowry, Paul Benjamin;
Journal of Management Information Systems, 2015, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 179-214.
Insiders may act to sustain and improve organizational information security, yet our knowledge of what motivates them to do so remains limited. For example, most extant research relies on mere portions of protection motivation theory (PMT) and has focused on isolated behaviors, thus limiting the generalizability of findings to isolated issues, rather than addressing the global set of protective security behaviors. Here, we investigate the motivations surrounding this larger behavioral set by assessing maladaptive rewards, response costs, and fear alongside traditional PMT components. We extend PMT by showing that: (1) security education, training, and awareness (SETA) efforts help form appraisals; (2) PMT's applicability to organizational rather than personal contexts depends on insiders' organizational commitment levels; and (3) response costs provide the link between PMT's appraisals. We show in detail how organizational commitment is the mechanism through which organizational security threats become personally relevant to insiders and how SETA efforts influence many PMT-based components. > >
Keywords: coping appraisal information security; MIMIC model; organizational commitment; protection-motivated behaviors; protection motivation theory ;security ;structural equation modeling; threat appraisal
Algorithm:

List of Topics

#56 0.324 information security interview threats attacks theory fear vulnerability visibility president vulnerabilities pmt behaviors enforcement appeals protection insiders attackers precautions vice
#73 0.125 security threat information users detection coping configuration avoidance response firm malicious attack intrusion appraisal countermeasures benefit costs threats ability rate
#184 0.111 modeling models model business research paradigm components using representation extension logical set existing way aspects issues current integrated languages traditional
#227 0.102 commitment need practitioners studies potential role consider difficult models result importance influence researchers established conduct investigated establishing appear clearly determining
#1 0.098 organizational organizations effectiveness factors managers model associated context characteristics variables paper relationships level attention environmental technological based maturity organization's relationship
#15 0.073 motivation intrinsic theory social extrinsic expectancy motivations motivate usage enjoyment rewards consequences reciprocity organizational motivational focus helping system's exploratory substantial
#220 0.063 research study different context findings types prior results focused studies empirical examine work previous little knowledge sources implications specifically provide