It ain’t my business: a coping perspective on employee effortful security behavior

Purpose Human factor is often cited as one of the biggest challenges for organizational information security management. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how and why employees fail to carry out required security tasks. Design/methodology/approach On the basis of coping theory, this paper develops a theoretical model to examine employee effortful security behavior (ESB). The model is tested with the data collected through a survey …