A Study on the Effect of Social Cognitive Factors on Employees’Intention to Comply with BYOD Security Policy

Purpose: This study focuses on examining the social cognitive factors that influence employees' intentions to comply with security policies in a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) environment, based on a model derived from Social Cognitive Theory. Additionally, it aims to propose managerial strategies to improve employees' adherence to BYOD security policies.Methods: To investigate employees' intentions to comply with BYOD security policies, we performed hypotheses testing within the proposed research model. A Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) analysis was employed to examine the collected data. The data was gathered from 268 employees working at companies that have adopted BYOD, through an online survey conducted between June 10 and 17, 2024.Results: The results confirmed all of our proposed hypotheses. Encouragement by others, the information security practices by others and instrumental support significantly influence both outcome expectations and self-efficacy. Additionally, instrumental support, outcome expectations, and self-efficacy are shown to affect employees' intentions to comply with BYOD security policies.Conclusion: Our study revealed that companies implementing BYOD should actively encourage employees to minimize security policy breaches by utilizing various support programs and sharing success stories of high performance resulting from adherence to the policies. This approach can effectively increase employees' intention to comply with BYOD information security policies.