Author(s)

Xiaolong Wang, Wenli Li

Corresponding Author

Xiaolong Wang

Abstract

In the organizational context, employee individual often prefers to concentrate herself to the day-to-day routine job, but to shirk the responsibilities of the Information Security Policies (ISPs) compliance, after she has been delegated by the employer to perform the two different tasks in the same time period. This would lead to negative influences on the security of information systems and the employee’s routine job performance. In view of the task structures of employee’s routine job and ISPs compliance, the variables of emphasis on scheduling are incorporated into a multi-task principal-agent model to explore the optimal incentive scheme to motivate and control the employees to select appropriate effort levels for conducting the two highly structured tasks. The role of emphasis on scheduling on the incentive intensities for the two tasks have been clarified through the system modeling and simulation, and the corresponding incentive tactics are suggested. The two-task incentive scheme is expected to provide useful insight for understanding and controlling employee’s routine job and ISPs compliance behaviors.

Keywords

System modeling and simulation,optimal incentive scheme, information security policies compliance, task structure, emphasis on scheduling, multi-task principal-agent theory