Due to a shortage of key competencies in organisations and the rising challenge to find the right person to do a job, organisations are under pressure to assess, monitor and continuously develop their workers’ competencies. At the same time, enterprise systems offer data that provide a basis for strategic decisions in the area of competence development. This domain was investigated with two cas...

A large number of information security breaches at the workplace result from employees’ failure to comply with organizational information security guidelines. Recent surveys report that 78% of computer attacks appear in the form of viruses embedded in email attachments. Employees who open e-mail attachments from unknown sources risk infecting their own computers as well as other computers shari...

This article presents the development of a program and results of a study to evaluate an online distancebased learning (DBL) program for competency-based, basic emergency preparedness training for employees of local health departments nationwide. The program was developed and implemented beginning in May 2003 by Columbia University’s Center for Public Health Preparedness (CU-CPHP), and was desi...

E-learning is nowadays recognized as one of the key components of Enterprise Knowledge Management platforms. Given a project specification, the platform should be able to suggest a project team, to measure human resources competence gaps and to contribute to reduce them by creating personalized learning paths. In this paper we propose an XML based Multi-Agent System to perform the following tas...

Currently, information security policy compliance research mainly investigates information security compliant behaviors of employees from general deterrence theory or protection motivation theory. However, these studies focus on the discussions of security specifications in organization and the motivations of individuals’ behaviors but omit the influences of contextual effects on employees’ psy...