Prof. Gil Luria

How Does Organizational Climate Affect Cognitive Processes of IS Engineers? The Cases of Informational Privacy and Security Climates

Abstract

The talk will review current knowledge about group-level and organizational-level climate. First I will explain the individual-level rationale of employee decision-making and behaviour. In order to comprehend the necessity for group-level climate theory and approach, it is important to understand how organizational contexts influence employees' cognition and behaviour. I will go over what climate is and how it is measured in organizations, and explain how climate could be improved. The principles of organizational climate theory and measures will be demonstrated via a current study focusing on organizational security and privacy climate. .

Biography

Gil Luria is an associate professor and the head of the Human Services Department in the faculty of social welfare and health sciences at the University of Haifa. He conducts research on organizational climate, leadership, stress, and organizational interventions (programs to improve climate and behavior in organizations). He received his PhD from the Faculty of Management at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. His studies have been published in scientific and professional journals and adopted by practitioners in a number of organizations. His recent work focuses on security and privacy climate, level of analysis in the measurement of climate, and leadership.