{"title":"The diverse career orientations of MIS personnel","authors":"James J. Jiang, G. Klein, J. Balloun","doi":"10.1145/219716.219719","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Past studies have found different dominant career anchors present among information system (IS) personnel. This study provides additional evidence that IS personnel have a diversity of career orientations and that the orientations can vary according to external conditions. A survey of IS personnel supports the premise that each professional situation and each individual is unique. Organizations are better off creating flexible career structures rather than rigid career paths and must be prepared to adjust to changes in the environment.","PeriodicalId":426630,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigcpr Computer Personnel","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1995-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"8","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ACM Sigcpr Computer Personnel","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/219716.219719","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Past studies have found different dominant career anchors present among information system (IS) personnel. This study provides additional evidence that IS personnel have a diversity of career orientations and that the orientations can vary according to external conditions. A survey of IS personnel supports the premise that each professional situation and each individual is unique. Organizations are better off creating flexible career structures rather than rigid career paths and must be prepared to adjust to changes in the environment.