{"id":69496,"date":"2020-12-02T10:28:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T15:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=69496"},"modified":"2020-12-02T15:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T20:26:01","slug":"impact-of-employee-security-violations-at-centre-of-goodman-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/12\/impact-of-employee-security-violations-at-centre-of-goodman-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of employee security violations at centre of Goodman talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employee behaviour is essential to the information security of an organization.<\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s Goodman Luncheon Speaker Series event, Teju Herath will discuss how moral disengagement \u2014 convincing one&#8217;s self that ethical standards do not personally apply \u2014 impacts employees\u2019 actions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69500\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69500\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69500\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/teju-herath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-69500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teju Herath, Associate Professor of Information Systems at Brock University.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Associate Professor of Information Systems at Brock University will present her ongoing co-authored research in a presentation titled \u201cExamining Employee Security Violations: Moral Disengagement Perspective,\u201d on Friday, Dec. 4 from noon to 2:30 p.m. via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stream.lifesizecloud.com\/extension\/2698245\/ed9082ca-a0d9-4dc9-a42b-ee0a2c3dfeab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lifesize<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsidering ever-changing and demanding security requirements, employees are likely to rationalize their noncompliant behaviour due to adverse effects of stressful demands imposed by security requirements,\u201d says Herath, who is leading the presentation as part of her recognition as the Departmental Researcher of the Year for Finance, Operations and Information Systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo deal with security related stress, employees may modify work tasks, including reducing the emotional distress by rationalizing and morally disengaging from the correct behaviour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/goodman\/faculty-research\/luncheon-speaker-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goodman School of Business Luncheon Speaker Series<\/a> provides Goodman faculty, staff and students with an informal opportunity to listen to and discuss recent advances in research, teaching and practices with international business colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone is welcome by clicking on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stream.lifesizecloud.com\/extension\/2698245\/ed9082ca-a0d9-4dc9-a42b-ee0a2c3dfeab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lifesize webinar link<\/a>\u00a0at the date and time of the scheduled lecture presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s Goodman Luncheon Speaker Series event, Teju Herath will discuss how moral disengagement \u2014 convincing one&#8217;s self that ethical standards do not personally apply \u2014 impacts employees\u2019 actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,39],"tags":[7594,594,2283,4586],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69496"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69501,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69496\/revisions\/69501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}