The effects of information security stressors on tje job satisfaction : A research on R&D structured organizations

Depending upon the intensive usage of Information Security technologies, providing the security of information became as a requirement. The attacks in cyberspace and possibility of loosing the information forced organizations invest on information security. The information security concept seem to be more related to technology at first but the role of human in this process became realized recently. From the perspective of organizations, there are human based errors most while lossing the datas. Therefore, organizations try to develop methods force human to comply with the information security policies. This normative mecanizm help individuals to make less erros but on the other side compliying with the information security policies bring workload, impediments, invasion of privacy, time loss and strain. This research is aimed to determine the effects of impediments and invasion of privacy on the information security stress and job satisfaction while complying with the information security requirements. The study is conducted in R&D structured organizations. We reached two main findings. First, impediments and invasion of privacy are the information security stressors. Second, information security stress has a negative effect on the job satisfaction. Keywords: Information security, work impediment, invasion of privacy, information security stress, job satisfaction.