Towards Studying the Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Organizations’ Information Security

Recently, all organizations have held a variety of data, including product and customer insights. These data frequently contain sensitive information that, if revealed, destroyed, or deleted, would result in significant financial loss. Information security is the concept that focuses on securing the information of organizations. It prevents unauthorized access or alteration by malicious attackers or organizations' employees. Job satisfaction is a key factor that organizations seek to achieve for their employees. Hence, employees become more committed and are in a state of loyalty and attachment to the organization and its goals. Although many studies have been conducted on job satisfaction and the information security; however, there are still gaps that need to be filled in the literature. Therefore, this paper aims to explicate the related studies in order to find the relationship between job satisfaction and organizations’ information security, and to examine their impacts on each other. To do so, this study employed the exploratory research design because it concentrates on gaining insights and well-grounded information for the investigation. Three phases, which are (1) identifying the problem, (2) reviewing the literature, and (3) synthesizing and reporting the findings, were followed to achieve the aim of this study. The results indicate a vital relationship exists between job satisfaction and the organizations' information security leveraging the business organizations. Further research would focus on examining this relationship through interviews with experts in business organizations and surveying the impact of employee job satisfaction on the organizations' information security.