Study on Disaster Recovery for Computer Data

1. Do preintervention differences in attitudes toward disaster recovery planning for electronic information systems exist among administrators and managers according to (a) organizational hierarchical level, (b) nationality, (c) environment of higher education, or (d) perceived operational significance of lowprobability/highloss potential events?

2. Can the attitudes of administrators and managers toward disaster recovery planning be changed in a positive direction through intervention involving: (a) education in risk analysis, or (b) viewing a video presentation of the effects of a variety of actions and occurrences on the security and integrity of electronic information systems?

It was concluded that preintervention differences in attitudes toward disaster recovery planning for electronic information systems among Saudi administrators and managers will likely be present in Saudi organizations on the basis of organizational hierarchical level, nationality, environment of higher education, and perceived operational significance of lowprobability/highloss potential events.

It was also concluded that effective interventions similar to the interventions employed in this study can lead to positive changes in the attitudes of administrators and managers in Saudi organizations toward disaster recovery planning, and that such changes will lik

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their social position, have special responsibility for standards in a given social context. From this perspective, elites may be viewed as "functional, mainly occupational, groups which have high status . . . in a society" (Bottomore, 1987, p. 8). Whenever people interact with one another over a period of time, they tend to develop group norms that regulate their shared concerns. In occupational groups, moreover, moral rules are generated that are at least implicitly agreed upon by all members of the group.  Islamic Values Saudi society is based on Islamic values. Thus, Islamic values play a major role in the development of the values and attitudes of Saudi administrators and managers. Identity in Islamic societies is derived on the basis of a universal faith; a concept which challenges the component of rationality found in western societies. Institutions, organizations, and individuals in an Islamic society derives their legitimacy from the mandate of Allah, rather than from the people of the society. The strategy of Islam is to mold the individual in accordance with the tenets of Islam, as opposed to the fostering of individual expression which is implicit in western concepts of participation. Islam permits and encourag
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