001)
We can, therefore, conclude from the above that opportunity and
motivation are mainly responsible for employee fraud[5] and, conversely,
these two factors have to be tackled if employee fraud is to be controlled
effectively. While tackling the problem of motivation for employee fraud
largely falls outside the domain of the Security Manager as it is the
responsibility of the HR manager, he is mainly responsible for minimizing
"opportunity"[6] for fraud among the employees. It is, of course, pertinent
to mention here that the Security, Audit and HRM departments must work in
close co-ordination to tackle employee fraud effectively.
In order to minimize the opportunity for internal fraud the Security
Manager must design an effective internal control system. While the details
of such an internal control system would vary according to the size and
type of the organization and the environment in which a business operates,
...