Perceptions and Attitudes toward Risks of City Administration Employees in the Context of Smart City Management

Smart cities are required to be effectively and efficiently managed in order ensure the desired level of sustainability quality life for all inhabitants. This is a particularly difficult challenge crisis situations considerable scale intensity (for example, COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflicts, social tensions). For this reason, aim article identify attitudes perceptions risk by city administration employees combined with an assessment their impact on consequences (the implementation internal external threats). The analyses used results survey conducted representative sample 399 Polish municipal offices, as well descriptive statistics structural equation modeling. obtained show that: (1) offices negatively perceive aware its destructive organization, but reluctant report risks; (2) individual collective measures taken protect against risks, not always encouraged potential sources (rarely form informal conversation even more rarely systemic form); (3) most part, that risks have negative operation offices; (4) strongly influenced employees’ than individual, team, toward risk. added value research presented comes from diagnosing behavioral aspects urban management assessing (internal external) broad, range.