ERIC Number: ED648596
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 125
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Influence of Ethics Training on the Employees' Information Security Compliance Intentions
Yongbin Lee
ProQuest LLC, D.I.T. Dissertation, Capella University
Organizations must ensure that employees maintain information security policy (ISP) compliance intentions with respect to published policies to improve their information security (IS) posture. Employees' noncompliance behaviors make them the weakest link in organizations' IS. Although IS researchers exert enormous amounts of effort on finding solutions for the problem, the IS literature has failed to provide effective solutions for the employees' noncompliance. Researchers in different fields of studies utilized ethics training and provided evidence that it has positive effects on employees' compliance intentions. However, despite the capabilities of ethics training in compliance intention improvement, IS research on the influence of ethics training on employees' ISP compliance intentions is limited. This nonexperimental quantitative explanatory study addressed the gap in empirical support for investigating whether ethics training influences employees' ISP compliance intentions. The population for this study consisted of students at an accredited higher education institution in the United States who are employed and use computer systems for their work. The study involved obtaining a sample of 85 employees from various industries. The study used One-way ANOVA and F-test to analyze the sample data. The results found that ISP compliance intentions are significantly different between employees who underwent ethics training and those who did not (F(1,83) = 9.502, p = 0.003, a = 0.05). The findings align with prior nonIS studies incorporating ethics training to research employee behavior changes. The findings of this study are significant to the IT and IS fields since they provide statistical evidence that ethics training significantly influences employees' ISP compliance intentions. The findings of this study also provide an opportunity for IS researchers to replicate this study and further investigate the causal impact of ethics training on employees' IS behaviors. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
Descriptors: Ethics, Training, Information Security, Compliance (Legal), Intention, Employee Attitudes
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Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
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Language: English
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