This thesis argues that organizational power impacts the development and implementation of Information Systems (IS) Security policy. The motivation for this research stems from the continuing concern of ineffective security in organizations, leading to significant monetary losses. IS researchers have contended that ineffective IS Security policy is a precursor to ineffective IS Security (Loch et al. 1992; Whitman et al. 2001; David 2002; Solms and Solms 2004). Beyond this pragmatic aspect, there is a gap in the literature concerning power relationships and IS Security policy. This research intends to bridge the gap. The dissertation is a two phased study whereby the first phase seeks to understand the intricacies of IS Security policy formulation and implementation. In the first phase, a conceptual framework utilizes Katz's (1970) semantic theory. The conceptual framework provides the theoretical foundation for a case study that takes place at an educational institution's Information Technology (IT) Department. In the results, it is confirmed that a disconnect exists between IS Security policy formulation and implementation. Furthermore, a significant emergent finding indicates that power relationships have a direct impact on this observed disconnect. The second phase takes place as an in depth case study at the IT department within a large financial organization. The theoretical foundation for the second phase is based was Clegg's (2002) Circuits of Power. A conceptual framework for this phase utilizes this theory. This framework guides the study of power relationships and how they might affect the formulation and implementation of IS Security policy in this organization. The case study demonstrates that power relationships have a clear impact on the formulation and implementation of IS security policy. Though there is a strong security culture at the organization and a well defined set of processes, an improvement in the process and ensuing security culture is possible by accounting for the effect of power relationships.

This article explores the role of financial intelligence in the context of intelligence studies. Reviewing relevant literature, the field of intelligence studies is divided into a public, and a private sphere, which is directly related to businesses and organizations. Consequently, this context is clarified before financial intelligence could be placed in a theoretical framework and further defined in a content-related way. The recent lack of a useful definition, that addresses several aspects, was emphasized by providing an appropriate explanation of financial intelligence. For illustration purposes, a link to the theory on organizational power (bases of power) is made to show how organizational power can be promoted by financial intelligence. Thus, financially intelligent individuals have good opportunities to increase their expert power and informational power for example. In fact, it is advantageous for both individuals and organizations. Within our line of argumentation, we assume that financial intelligence is a good source for power, because finance in general is recognized as essential for organizations and business success. In a nutshell, there are good reasons for focusing financial intelligence in future studies and in practice.

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The purpose of this research is to show how the idea of presidential security is a construct that has taken on several different meanings and rationalities in the American context due to shifting power relations, new practices of presidential security, and the constant re-formulation of the friend/enemy distinction. The United States Service has had to continually think and re-think the concept of presidential security in order to provide suitable protection for the President of the United States. In creating these spaces of protection, the practices of the Secret Service have slowly contributed to re-constituting the sovereign to fit the agency's particular logics and rationalities. The capturing of the Chief Executive Officer does not only rest on disciplinary techniques that restrict, but are also founded on the truth production of the Secret Service: presidents begin to accept and internalize the modus operandi of the Secret Service. They begin to self-monitor their own desires and actions related to security concerns. The walls of protection are coupled with a conscious capitulation to accept the barriers of protection. The cage is no longer only imposed from without, but also emerges internally. By problematizing how this evolving security bubble encapsulates the president, this dissertation is able to examine how the Secret Service begins to reshape and reformulate key democratic governance values by protecting the public and private body of the president through a disciplinary apparatus that seeks to control and contain as well as display and deliberate. Democratic norms that privilege openness have to be challenged, if not curtailed, to adequately protect the Chief Executive Officer. Everyone and everything is a risk that must be inspected, catalogued, and watched, even the president cannot be trusted with his own safety. With its mission to protect, the Secret Service has constructed an organizational operation to ostracize the other, permanently put the president behind protective procedures, and present a pleasing public persona fitting to the status of the POTUS. These overt actions have allowed an administrative agency to redefine key democratic governance values. The agency has been able to delineate who is a suspicious other, justify the placement of barricades that separate the president from the people, instill a preventive/security ethos in the Office of the President, and display the president as the apex of a constitutional order. Because of its successes and failures, presidential protection has become normal, acceptable, legitimate, and absolutely necessary, which has provided the Service the ability to give shape to a particular rationality concerning what the president can and cannot do. This constitutive role of a public agency has had a dramatic impact on how the people come to experience and interact with the POTUS. The development of the Secret Service and its protective procedures, however, has been sporadic and tenuous. For the past 100 years, this emerging rationality was produced by a multitude of sources that have helped construct the idea and practice of presidential security. The subjects of insecurity and security mutually created the idea of POTUS endangerment and safety. Enemies of the state have helped mold state action while friends of the president have sought to project an image of presidential grandeur. In this context, the Service has had to secure territorial spaces in order to conceal and confuse threats while simultaneously having to display and disclose the presidential body to the public. The capacity to control threats and to coordinate the presidential spectacle has enabled the Service to direct the body and mind of the POTUS. With this disciplinary apparatus in place, the Secret Service is able to construct bubbles and bunkers that are designed to protect and trap the president's two bodies. / Ph. D.

Submitted by Valdinei Souza (neisouza@hotmail.com) on 2016-06-09T19:04:20Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese samir PPGCI-UFBA 2015.pdf: 2795422 bytes, checksum: c49272e1d5617119d0a5e60e2b0950b9 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Urania Araujo (urania@ufba.br) on 2016-06-20T18:49:34Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese samir PPGCI-UFBA 2015.pdf: 2795422 bytes, checksum: c49272e1d5617119d0a5e60e2b0950b9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-20T18:49:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese samir PPGCI-UFBA 2015.pdf: 2795422 bytes, checksum: c49272e1d5617119d0a5e60e2b0950b9 (MD5) / Objetivo Geral - Propõe-se analisar o poder organizacional em Unidades de Informação sob a perspectiva política da Administração. Objetivos Específicos - Mensura a liderança em unidades de informação, identificando quaisos estilos de funcionamento de liderança organizacional (individualista, afiliativo,empreendedor ou um estilo de funcionamento de liderança burocrático). Mensura o poder da estrutura/cargo/autoridade, identificando quais as bases estruturais de poder (base estruturalde poder legítimo; de coerção; de recompensa; e base estrutural de poder de perícia). Mensura o conflito/retaliação, identificando quais os fatores que podem gerar o conflito/retaliação pelo não acesso ao poder organizacional (fator de conflito/retaliação afetivo e fator de conflito/retaliação conativo). Mensura a comunicação/informação entre membros das equipes de trabalho em Unidades de Informação, identificando a existência de interdependência detarefas e interdependência de resultados entre os membros das equipes. Metodologia - Trata-se de um estudo que apresenta resultados em mais de uma unidade de informação que são separados sem correlações entre si. Os contornos foram buscados emreferências tanto da área da Ciência da Informação quanto da Ciência da Administração para embasar os temas componentes da perspectiva política que tem o foco na análise do poderorganizacional em unidades de informação. Questionários para a análise do poder organizacional foram aplicados a uma amostra de 4 bibliotecarios-chefe das Bibliotecas Universitárias (BUs) do Sistema de Bibliotecas da Universidade Federal da Bahia(SIBI/UFBA) e a 4 coordenadores do Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia (APEB), gerando resultados para cada uma delas. Estes resultados, que são apresentados e discutidos em separado, apontaram algumas fragilidades tanto no SIBI/UFBA quanto no APEB em relaçãoao poder organizacional. Conclusões - Conclui-se para as BUs do SIBI/UFBA que estas possuem um poder mais centrado no cargo, através do exercício da autoridade, e menos distribuído pelos membros das equipes de trabalho porque a análise dos elementos constituintes do poder organizacional indica um exercício de poder mais pautado na estrutura/cargo/autoridade do que nos princípios de liderança, embora haja um significativo potencial para a liderança, com grande potencial de conflito/retaliação afetivo (alto grau de insatisfação), mas isso não compromete o alcance de resultados por haver um alto grau de interdependência de tarefas e resultados pela existência de uma omunicação/informação transparente entre os membros das equipes de trabalho. Conclui-se para o APEB que este possui um poder mais centrado no cargo, através do exercício da autoridade, e menos distribuído pelos membros das equipes de trabalho. Nesta instituição, a análise dos elementos constituintes do poder organizacional indica um exercício de poder mais pautado na estrutura/cargo/autoridade do que nos princípios de liderança, com potenciais conflitos/retaliação de cunho afetivo (insatisfações latentes) e baixo grau de alcance de tarefas e resultados pela existência de uma comunicação restrita da informação entre membros das equipes de trabalho. Estas fragilidades, mais do que pontos fracos, são oportunidades de aprimoramento da gestão das unidades de informação estudadas, e é isso que o presente trabalho demonstra, ou seja, que ações de melhoria na liderança, na estrutura de poder, no conflito organizacional e na comunicação/informação entre os membros das equipes de trabalho podem, de fato, conduzir a uma maior eficiência na gestão. / ABSTRACT General Objective - The overall objective of this thesis is to analyze the organizational power in Information Units under the political perspective of Management Science. Specific Objectives - The following specific objectives we have: a) Measure the leadership in Information Units, identifying the organization's operating styles (individualistic, affiliative, entrepreneur or a bureaucratic leadership style of functioning); b) Measure the power of structure /function / authority, identifying the structural bases of power (structural basis of legitimate power, coercion, reward, and structural basis of skill power); c) Measure the conflict / retaliation, identifying the factors that may cause the conflict / retaliation for no access to organizational power (affective conflict factor or conative conflict factor) and d) Measuring the communication / information among members of work teams in Information Units, identifying the existence of interdependence in the tasks and interdependence of results between team members. Methodology - This research is a multiple case study to present results in more than one unit of information, results that are separated without correlations with each other. The contours were sought in Information Science and Management Science references to support the policy perspective component themes that has the focus on the analysis of organizational power in information units.Questionnaires for the analysis of organizational power were applied to 4 librarians chief of the University Libraries (BUs) of the Library System of the Federal University of Bahia (SIBI / UFBA) and to 4 coordinators of the Public Archives of the State of Bahia (APEB), generating results for each of them. These results, which are presented and discussed separately, pointed out some weaknesses in the SIBI / UFBA and APEB in relation to organizational power. Conclusions - It is concluded that the University Libraries of the Federal University of Bahia Library System (SIBI/UFBA) have an organizational power more focused on the head, through the exercise of authority, and less distributed by members of work teams because power analysis organizational indicates a exercise of power more guided to the structure / function / authority than in the principles of leadership, although SIBI/UFBA has significant potential for leadership, with great potential for conflicts of affective nature (high degree of dissatisfaction), but it does not compromise the achievement of results, because there is in the SIBI/UFBA a high degree of interdependence in the execution of operations and in achieving results because there is a transparent communication and information among members of work teams. It concludes that the Public Archives of the State of Bahia (APEB) has a more focused organizational power in head, through the exercise of authority, and less distributed by members of work teams because the analysis of organizational power indicates the power of exercise more founded on the structure/function/ authority than in the principles of leadership, with potential conflicts of affective nature (latent dissatisfaction) and low degree of execution of operations and in achieving results, because there is in the APEB a restricted communication of information between members of teams work. These weaknesses, rather than weaknesses are opportunities for improvement of the management of these information units, and that's what this paper demonstrates, that improvement actions in the lead, actions to improve the distribution of positions in the hierarchical structure, improvement actions to resolve organizational conflicts and actions to improve the communication and information among members of work teams can actually lead to greater efficiency in working with the information.

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The Swedish Armed Forces must double its personnel volumes with 50% within the next 15 years period. With already existing challenges to procure new personnel and to keep those already serving in the current organizational structures this mission comes with some problems. The numbers leaving the Armed Forces are for the moment at a higher rate than what is recruited. This study sets out with the aim of finding what directions the Armed Forces can take to turn this trend around. The research has, by asking already serving commissioned and noncommissioned officers, examined what factors and motivators made them choose the profession and what factors makes them stay in the service. Further, to examine these factors and motivators deeper, interviews with cadets were made with the aim to find out what attracted them to serve. The data emerging consisted of seven categories each one giving a deeper understanding of what attracted the individual to the Armed Forces and what made them take the step to join. These categories are responsibility, leadership, stimulation, purposefulness, development, security and belonging. To put these factors in to a generational perspective, and to give them a wider meaning, third grade high school students were asked to explain their interpretation of them and how important they are. This secondary empirical gathering gave the researchers the opportunity to compare already existing theories about generations with the actual motivating factors of those already serving. What emerged was the combining factors of motivation to attract individuals to the Armed Forces, purposefulness, stimulation and belonging. This consists with the use of normative power when it comes to controlling the personnel in the organization and how important the use of the right organizational powers is to attract and get compliance from individuals. The Swedish Armed Forces cannot in its aim to expand depend on general knowledge about what attracts individuals from a particular generation. Instead a deeper more purposeful examination of what drives an individual to serve must be developed, something this study has tried to accomplish. The result of this study concludes that belonging to an organization with a purpose creates individual stimulation and allows the organization to use normative powers. / Försvarsmakten skall under de närmsta 15 åren nästan fördubbla sin personal ram. Men hur skall man kunna öka i personalvolymerna när man redan nu har svårt att behålla personalen. Utflödet av personal är större än inflödet just nu. Denna forskning inledde med att intervjua officerare som redan tjänstgör i myndigheten. Detta för att undersöka vilka faktorer som för dem är viktiga till varför de valde att söka till Försvarsmakten efter den gamla värnplikten och varför individen fortfarande är kvar i Försvarsmakten. Den andra respondentgruppen bestod av kadetter som är i början av sin karriär. Data från dessa intervjuer kodades och sju kategorier utkristalliserades. Ansvar, ledarskap, stimulans, meningsfullhet, utvecklande, trygghet och tillhörighet. Dessa kategorier användes vid framtagningen av breddstudieenkäten som ställdes till två gymnasieklasser som studerar på ett högskoleförberedande program. Gymnasieeleverna fick svara vad de framkomna kategorierna betydde för dem och deras svar utgör grunden i denna forsknings empiri. För att kunna förstå officerarna, kadetterna och gymnasieeleverna så analyserades empirin ur ett generationsperspektiv. Denna jämförelse visade att oberoende vilken generation som individen tillhör så är stimulans, meningsfullhet och tillhörighet de kategorier som är starka faktorer som har fått individerna att söka till Försvarsmakten. Meningsfullhet skapar förutsättning för den normativa styrformen som också är den mest lämpliga styrformen för att skapa motivation samt efterlevnad för organisationens mål. Försvarsmakten kan inte i sin eftersträvan att öka personalmässigt endast förliga sig på kunskapen kring generationsforskningen. Försvarsmakten måste skapa sig en djupare kunskap om vad som driver individen och vilka förutsättningar myndigheten har att bidra till individens utveckling.