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Corporate Security Career Progression: A Comparative Study Of Four Australian Organisations, Codee Roy Ludbey, David J. Brooks, Michael Coole
Corporate Security Career Progression: A Comparative Study Of Four Australian Organisations, Codee Roy Ludbey, David J. Brooks, Michael Coole
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
The study investigated the Corporate Security stratum of work within large Australian organisations, seeking to extract professional seating, roles, associated task complexity, career opportunity and progression ceilings as articulated through the socio-organisational literature. Two phases were applied: Phase One used online surveys distributed to participants (N = 53) across four Australian organisations, Phase Two employed semi-structured interviews and focus groups (N = 14). Findings reinforced the established literature articulation of corporate security’s roles; however, they contested the current articulation of corporate security’s executive level seating within large organisations. Instead, the study identified a Corporate Security seating with a restricted sphere …