This paper is a study on the industrial security specialists of organizations in possession
of industrial technology and their compliance motivations towards security policies. The focus
is on organizational justice, organizational attachment and empowerment based on our
hypothesis that compliance motivations are shaped, not only by the organization itself but,
also by the attitude and principle of the organization's members. The objective is to propose
a direction for administrative security policy to increase prevention of industrial technology
leakage by identifying the factors' significance through hypothesis testing and thereafter
investigating the influencing relationship.
Survey questionnaires are collected from the participants of a regular educational program
provided by the Korean Association for Industrial Technology Security (KAITS) and
analyzed using SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 21.0 software. Through various statistical analyses,
following results are acquired.
First, procedural fairness and organizational attachment are found to motivate security
supervisors to comply with security policies. Particularly, the relationship between procedural
fairness and compliance motivations towards security policies is fully mediated by
organizational attachment, suggesting that improved fairness at the organizational level will
lead to an increase in organizational attachment, which will encourage the individuals to
comply with security policies.
Additionally, empowerment of the individuals in organizations partially mediates the
relationship between procedural fairness and organizational attachment, confirming that
procedural fairness empowers each individual and increases his organizational attachment.
Specifically, in order to maximize compliance of security policies, businesses should
demonstrate procedural fairness when compensating their employees for their work to
empower them and increase their organizational attachment, which can increase their will
to comply with existing security policies.
This research provides insights into how to encourage security supervisors to comply with
security policies by increasing their empowerment and organizational attachment.