Strengthening Employee's Responsibility to Enhance Governance of IT - COBIT RACI Chart Case Study

The ongoing financial markets debacle and the global economic context advocate enhancing the governance of the companies and, de facto, improving the elaboration and the understanding of employees' responsibilities. Furthermore, the moral aspects of the business and the employees' commitment have appeared as becoming increasingly unavoidable to face emerging ethical challenges. These arising requirements have oriented our research toward the elaboration of an innovative responsibility model built on the concepts of obligation/accountability, right and commitment. This paper aims to present, validate and improve the responsibility model on the basis of a comparison to related concepts from the COBIT framework. In parallel to this improvement, proposals of conceptual modification of the COBIT framework are made and illustrated based on the RACI chart.