Organizational Environment In An Organization

Introduction: Information security has become one of the most pressing issues government agencies, corporations and organizations deal with. Organizations have heavily invested in securing their information from unauthorized access. This investment comes in the form of building physical and virtual infrastructures, as well as training employees in the best practices of information security (Ifinedo, 2012). Despite such efforts, employee’s compliance with information security guidelines within an organization has been one of the driving factors jeopardizing the security of information owned by an organization. Therefore, understanding what predicts compliance with information security policies presets a great opportunity for organizations

This organizational atmosphere is viewed as a potential explanatory factor of employees’ conduct. This can be viewed by decomposing the organizational environment into policies, regulations, interactions between management and lower ranks; then inspecting relationships between these components and employees’ behavior (Son, 2011). As a whole this holistic environment may be seen as a force driving a particular behavior within the organization. Employees process the inputs around them gathered from the various components of organizational environment and behave in ways influenced by such inputs (Son,

For instance, organizational environment as a whole was seen to drive the conduct of employees. More recent research differentiated between the various components and even suggested the distance of multiple organizational environments within a single organization (Al-Omari, Deokar, El-Gayar, 2012). It tried to connect a particular environment with a specific behavior. For instance, one study investigated the morale environment effect on workers’ perceived motivations for their work. It found that organizations with a transformational organizational environment tended to have employees with higher scores of work motivation (Al-Omari, Deokar, El-Gayar, 2012). This analysis utilizes the particular environment of information security as a potential predictor of employee’s compliance with information security