The Role of Social Status and Controllability on Employee Intent to Follow Organizational Information Security Requirements
Salvatore Aurigemma, Thomas Mattson · 2015
Using the theory of planned behavior, this paper investigates the relationship between an employee's social status, perceived controllability of co-workers' actions and individual self-efficacy in terms of predicting an employee's perceived behavioral control over and his/her intention to comply with an organization's information security policies. The reported findings in this paper from a survey of 182 employees of a large government organization suggest that decomposing perceived behavioral control into controllability and self-efficacy has more predictive power than using simpler proxies (i.e. Self-efficacy alone) advocated in previous literature, and an employee's status in the organizational hierarchy has both a direct and a moderating effect on an employee's perceived behavioral control (but not on self-efficacy).