The Importance Of Intelligence And Organizational Leadership

Introduction Cybercriminals have been increasingly engaging in online attacks exploiting organization’s vulnerabilities and deficiencies (Bhattacharya, 2011). Among the organizational factors that are necessary to combat cybercrime and other problems related to information security, leadership is one of the most important (Bhattacharya, 2011; Kwon, et al., 2013). Indeed, not only does effective leadership enable the organization to appropriately defend itself against, and respond to, cybercrime through the appropriate use of information security strategies, an excellent leader also ensures regulatory compliance and the development of an effective monitoring plan to reduce information security risks (Kwon, et al., 2013). At the other end of the spectrum, ineffective leadership leads to passive or reactive measures against cybercrime that, in turn, can place the organization at risk of information security related damage and losses (Gupta and Hammond, 2005). This mini proposal presents a body of research that will make a contribution to emotional intelligence and organizational leadership in the information security age. It presents the steps taken to select the participants, how the data will be analyzed into themes. The mini proposal will also present methods, techniques and the tasks are used to capture the data. It also discusses a series of studies that provide an empirical evaluation of particular cybercrime events, and uses the experimental results to beginShow MoreRelatedUnderstanding Of Emotional Intelligence, Organizational Leadership, And Workplace795 Words   |  4 PagesDowney (2011) indicated that emotional intelligence, organizational leadership, and workplace culture are directly linked to how employees relate to the leaders of an organization. The understanding of emotional intelligence, its components and a comparable leadership style such as transformational leadership is vital to the success of an organization. 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