Abstract

This study is trying to understand employee’s perspective on how a trust of an employee has on his/her employer has any significance on safety of information from internal attacks in a small organization. The relationship between the trust of an employee on his/her employer with safety of information from internal employee attacks in small organizations has not been explored well. The study was conducted on employees who worked in small organizations which maintained all of its information in digital format. About four hundred and ninety employees responded who belong to small organizations in the Midwestern US region. The influence that employees trust on his/her employer and the safety of information was explored. The research findings revealed that there is a positive correlation between the trust of employee on his/her employer and safety of information from internal attacks in small organizations.

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