Problems and Tools for the Detection of Threats to Personnel Security in the Region

N V Kuznetsova,A Yu Timofeeva

doi:10.15826/recon.2016.2.4.041

Abstract

The study of threats negatively affecting the state and development of human resources as well as the types of security threats is of particular importance in the theory and practice of ensuring personnel security. The aim of this article is the identification and clssification of the concepts of the main threats to personnel security in the region (the study is carried on the example of the Irkutsk region). On the basis of the content analysis of the Russian regulatory legal acts and scientific publications, the authors have identifed external and internal threats to personnel security in the region. As a result of the study, a list of threats to personnel security in the region, which consists of 37 items, is composed. The political, economic, demographic, social, technical, technological, ecological, legal, and ethnocultural types are demonstrated. It is found that internal threats to personnel security ( first of all, social and economic ones) dominate in the region. The urgency and importance of threats to personnel security in the region are assessed. The hierarchical factor analysis is used to identify types of threats (lower level factors) and to estimate their effect on the general level of the urgency of threats to personnel security (upper-level factor). It is found that legal threats and threats caused by the low labor potential of the region make the most significant effect. The following methods are used: content analysis, analysis of frequency tables and contingency tables, hierarchical factor and correlation analyses. The analysis is based on the materials of the expert survey conducted in the Irkutsk region (2015). In order to determine the correlation (coherence) of the experts’ assessments, the Kendall’s coeficient of concordance is calculated. The obtained results can be used for the study and identification of threats to personnel security, which are typical for a certain region, they can serve as a basis for the prediction and analysis of threats to personnel security in the region, as well as for the elaboration of countermeasures.

Highlights

Russian scientists do not pay sufficient attention to the study of threats to personnel security, their factors and types
To describe the relationship between the acuteness of regional personnel security, we offer the model of hierarchical factor analysis
As the study results demonstrate, the experts identify the personnel security in the region as a separate concept, but they do not consider the state of the personnel security in the organization, where they work, to be a derivative of its state (Table 1)

Summary

Introduction

Russian scientists do not pay sufficient attention to the study of threats to personnel security, their factors and types. The following tasks are to be solved in order to achieve these objectives: — a compilation of a list of the main threats to personnel security in the region, expert assessment of the level of their acuteness; — a construction of an empirical typology of threats to personnel security in the region using the hierarchical factor analysis. The difficulty in solving these tasks are due, firstly, to the semantic and typological uncertainty of threats to personnel security, which complicates the procedure of selecting tools for their measurement, secondly, to the selected regional level of the problem under study, as distinct from the traditional microlevel, requiring to form the understanding of the sources of threats specific for a certain region

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