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Can Trust Be a Factor of Organisational Safety and Security?

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Security-Related Advanced Technologies in Critical Infrastructure Protection

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Safety and security are of increasing importance to all business ventures, but first and foremost for organisations operating as parts of critical infrastructure. Kinetic and cyber tools are being developed and employed, in order to decrease security risks that – in case of critical infrastructure organisations – would have far-fetched consequences not only on a company but on a national level as well. In present paper we endeavour to address the human side of this problem, namely the control function of managers in critical infrastructure organisations. Trust will be addressed as a proxy for external locus of control and described, how a strong and stable superior-subordinate relation can substantially contribute not only to the wellbeing of the employees but to organisational – and in the long run national – safety and security. Since trusting, safety-oriented cultures affect individual decisions not only on a normative but on a subconscious level as well, they can increase not only the willingness of employees to perceive, recognise and tackle safety and security threats, but trigger their eagerness to make good decisions that – through their trusting relations – do not only benefit the individual decision maker, but the organisation and its safety and security as well.

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    Kornélia Lazányi

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Lazányi, K., Danaj, A. (2022). Can Trust Be a Factor of Organisational Safety and Security?. In: Kovács, T.A., Nyikes, Z., Fürstner, I. (eds) Security-Related Advanced Technologies in Critical Infrastructure Protection. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2174-3_33

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