This paper surveys the research literature on stereotyping of gender and ICT and how it affects girls' participation in ICT education and work. Gender stereotypes can influence girls' choices over time, reducing their confidence and interest in ICT and turning them away from ICT as an occupation. The stereotypes can give negative messages about girls' aptitude for ICT work and the types of activities, which should interest them. ICT stereotypes are predominantly negative, provide misleading ideas about ICT as a career discouraging both girls and boys, and make the field particularly unattractive to girls. Stereotypes introduced in the family and social environment are often reinforced by images in the mass media as well as widespread education practices. Very few mitigating influences (such as same sex schools) have any impact on these stereotypes.
{"title":"Gender stereotypes prevail in ICT: a research review","authors":"Kaylene Clayton, L. Hellens, S. Nielsen","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542160","url":null,"abstract":"This paper surveys the research literature on stereotyping of gender and ICT and how it affects girls' participation in ICT education and work. Gender stereotypes can influence girls' choices over time, reducing their confidence and interest in ICT and turning them away from ICT as an occupation. The stereotypes can give negative messages about girls' aptitude for ICT work and the types of activities, which should interest them. ICT stereotypes are predominantly negative, provide misleading ideas about ICT as a career discouraging both girls and boys, and make the field particularly unattractive to girls. Stereotypes introduced in the family and social environment are often reinforced by images in the mass media as well as widespread education practices. Very few mitigating influences (such as same sex schools) have any impact on these stereotypes.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123703527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Haiyan Huang, Lynette Kvasny, K. D. Joshi, E. Trauth, J. Mahar
This research examines IT job skills across three genres of texts: scholarly articles, practitioner literature, and online job ads. The job skills are organized in three broad categories: technical, humanistic and business skills. Findings suggest that the online advertisements list a strong mix of skills in these three categories, while practitioner literature tends to focus heavily on technical skills. The most recent practitioner literature, however, notes that CIOs are increasingly demanding business acumen as well as technical skills. Project management, financial analysis, and communication skills are the most frequently cited business skills. The scholarly literature tends to lag behind in terms of specific technical skills, but reports the richest set of IT job skills across the three categories.
{"title":"Synthesizing IT job skills identified in academic studies, practitioner publications and job ads","authors":"Haiyan Huang, Lynette Kvasny, K. D. Joshi, E. Trauth, J. Mahar","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542154","url":null,"abstract":"This research examines IT job skills across three genres of texts: scholarly articles, practitioner literature, and online job ads. The job skills are organized in three broad categories: technical, humanistic and business skills. Findings suggest that the online advertisements list a strong mix of skills in these three categories, while practitioner literature tends to focus heavily on technical skills. The most recent practitioner literature, however, notes that CIOs are increasingly demanding business acumen as well as technical skills. Project management, financial analysis, and communication skills are the most frequently cited business skills. The scholarly literature tends to lag behind in terms of specific technical skills, but reports the richest set of IT job skills across the three categories.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124776177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Global regions are increasing efforts to create knowledge-based industries and knowledge work. While in the information economy, the focus was on training workers in information technology-related skills. The knowledge economy shifts an emphasis on skills that encourage innovation. The rationale behind this focus on innovation is that the information economy is driven by computer-related industries where work is geared towards the production and distribution of technologies. The knowledge economy however leverages these technologies for other uses as well as the creation of new technologies. This applies to all industries, and not just the core information technology industries.
{"title":"From human capital to knowledge assets: how regions create competitiveness","authors":"E. Trauth, K. Kaiser, R. Connelly, L. Potter","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542150","url":null,"abstract":"Global regions are increasing efforts to create knowledge-based industries and knowledge work. While in the information economy, the focus was on training workers in information technology-related skills. The knowledge economy shifts an emphasis on skills that encourage innovation. The rationale behind this focus on innovation is that the information economy is driven by computer-related industries where work is geared towards the production and distribution of technologies. The knowledge economy however leverages these technologies for other uses as well as the creation of new technologies. This applies to all industries, and not just the core information technology industries.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127831499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The unfolding model of voluntary turnover, as tested by Niederman et al. [1], surprisingly appears to only capture 12% of the job leavers in IT, whereas when applied to other occupational groups, such as accountant or nurses, this ratio is much higher (respectively 92% and 77%). To address this issue, we take a closer look at the classification rules of the original model and we clarify them, highlighting the discrepancy between figure 1 of Lee et al. [2] and their written explanations, [3], [2]. Acknowledging a lack of clarity of those rules, we clarify the meaning of the logical impossibility of the joint existence of an engaged script with a search/evaluation of alternatives. In addition, we discuss the path-switching approach, [3]. Considering this clarification of the classification rules, we recalculate the results of two previous studies ([1] [4]) and we compare and assess those results with the other replications of the model. Those results suggest that a more parsimonious model (i.e. only path 1, 3 and 4b, with engaged script only present in path 1) may be sufficient to capture the majority of those leaving jobs in IT (74% and above).
{"title":"A necessary clarification of the unfolding model of voluntary turnover","authors":"Gaëtan Mourmant","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542159","url":null,"abstract":"The unfolding model of voluntary turnover, as tested by Niederman et al. [1], surprisingly appears to only capture 12% of the job leavers in IT, whereas when applied to other occupational groups, such as accountant or nurses, this ratio is much higher (respectively 92% and 77%). To address this issue, we take a closer look at the classification rules of the original model and we clarify them, highlighting the discrepancy between figure 1 of Lee et al. [2] and their written explanations, [3], [2]. Acknowledging a lack of clarity of those rules, we clarify the meaning of the logical impossibility of the joint existence of an engaged script with a search/evaluation of alternatives. In addition, we discuss the path-switching approach, [3]. Considering this clarification of the classification rules, we recalculate the results of two previous studies ([1] [4]) and we compare and assess those results with the other replications of the model. Those results suggest that a more parsimonious model (i.e. only path 1, 3 and 4b, with engaged script only present in path 1) may be sufficient to capture the majority of those leaving jobs in IT (74% and above).","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128140984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel Firpo, Sumonta Kasemvilas, P. Ractham, Xuesong Zhang
Today, a significant portion of the student body lives far away from campus and are forced to take long commutes to and from campus. Such students are usually only able to come to campus once a week, and their fleeting presence on campus makes them detached from the intellectual community on campus. This study posits that information technology and "Web 2.0 technology" such as blogs and wikis can be used to expand the "Claremont Conversation" by mitigating the restrictions placed on communication by the need for same-time, same-place environments. As a part of an initiative envisioned by CGU President, Robert Klitgaard, titled "Imagine CGU" for the purpose of "Imagining the future of CGU and the Claremont Conversation", the phrase "Claremont Conversation" refers to conversations outside class among students and professors that help build an intellectual community that is the hallmark of a liberal education. This study describes the design and implementation of an initial project that targeted only the School of Information Systems and Technology (SISAT) at CGU. The artifact developed was an online community for the purpose of improving the sense-of-community amongst students, faculty, and alumni of the SISAT Department. This study then proposes future steps in how to improve the intellectual community at CGU by expanding the online intellectual community established for SISAT to the entire campus.
{"title":"Implementation of an online intellectual community in a graduate educational setting","authors":"Daniel Firpo, Sumonta Kasemvilas, P. Ractham, Xuesong Zhang","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542142","url":null,"abstract":"Today, a significant portion of the student body lives far away from campus and are forced to take long commutes to and from campus. Such students are usually only able to come to campus once a week, and their fleeting presence on campus makes them detached from the intellectual community on campus. This study posits that information technology and \"Web 2.0 technology\" such as blogs and wikis can be used to expand the \"Claremont Conversation\" by mitigating the restrictions placed on communication by the need for same-time, same-place environments. As a part of an initiative envisioned by CGU President, Robert Klitgaard, titled \"Imagine CGU\" for the purpose of \"Imagining the future of CGU and the Claremont Conversation\", the phrase \"Claremont Conversation\" refers to conversations outside class among students and professors that help build an intellectual community that is the hallmark of a liberal education. This study describes the design and implementation of an initial project that targeted only the School of Information Systems and Technology (SISAT) at CGU. The artifact developed was an online community for the purpose of improving the sense-of-community amongst students, faculty, and alumni of the SISAT Department. This study then proposes future steps in how to improve the intellectual community at CGU by expanding the online intellectual community established for SISAT to the entire campus.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114840106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
High school students do not have a clear understanding of the role of IT professionals in society. This research in progress investigates how online information sharing can inform young people more effectively about the real implications of working as an IT professional. Ultimately, this research is aimed at understanding whether or not such online information and knowledge sharing can influence attitude change towards IT occupations using inoculation methods to ultimately attract them to the field. In this paper, we discuss existing literature of IT occupations, their culture and functions, the online information and knowledge sharing through social networking, and attitude change using inoculation as a method of persuasion. We describe our current efforts to create online communities of potential newcomers and those who are already part of the occupation, followed by presentation of the type of information that is intended to be shared.
{"title":"RIP: the use of inoculation theory and online social networking for enhancing attractiveness of IT occupations","authors":"K. Stam, Indira R. Guzman, J. Stanton","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542157","url":null,"abstract":"High school students do not have a clear understanding of the role of IT professionals in society. This research in progress investigates how online information sharing can inform young people more effectively about the real implications of working as an IT professional. Ultimately, this research is aimed at understanding whether or not such online information and knowledge sharing can influence attitude change towards IT occupations using inoculation methods to ultimately attract them to the field. In this paper, we discuss existing literature of IT occupations, their culture and functions, the online information and knowledge sharing through social networking, and attitude change using inoculation as a method of persuasion. We describe our current efforts to create online communities of potential newcomers and those who are already part of the occupation, followed by presentation of the type of information that is intended to be shared.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121420484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The purpose of this panel is review the current status of IT jobs and careers, discuss reasons behind the enrollment gap, brainstorm strategies for increasing enrollment, and identify measures of effectiveness.
{"title":"The information systems enrollment crisis: status and strategies","authors":"C. Beise, J. Robbins, K. Kaiser, F. Niederman","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542171","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this panel is review the current status of IT jobs and careers, discuss reasons behind the enrollment gap, brainstorm strategies for increasing enrollment, and identify measures of effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"222 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122320655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andreas Eckhardt, Alexander von Stetten, Sven Laumer
Despite an era of global recession qualified staff is still rare due to the demographical situation worldwide. Companies are forced to develop new cost saving recruitment strategies to ensure the necessary labor supply while recruitment budgets are pruned. In this area, the use of information technology creates interesting opportunities to contact candidates and process applications, not only more economically but also more quickly. The actual value of the contribution made by IT in HR is nevertheless still disputed. For this reason, we conducted an empirical analysis in three different countries examining the impact of IT on process performance determinants in staff recruitment. With the aid of three causal models for Germany, Austria and Switzerland we could confirm a positive impact of IT use on time and costs per hire as well on the overall recruitment process quality.
{"title":"Value contribution of it in recruiting: a multi-national causal analysis","authors":"Andreas Eckhardt, Alexander von Stetten, Sven Laumer","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542132","url":null,"abstract":"Despite an era of global recession qualified staff is still rare due to the demographical situation worldwide. Companies are forced to develop new cost saving recruitment strategies to ensure the necessary labor supply while recruitment budgets are pruned. In this area, the use of information technology creates interesting opportunities to contact candidates and process applications, not only more economically but also more quickly. The actual value of the contribution made by IT in HR is nevertheless still disputed. For this reason, we conducted an empirical analysis in three different countries examining the impact of IT on process performance determinants in staff recruitment. With the aid of three causal models for Germany, Austria and Switzerland we could confirm a positive impact of IT use on time and costs per hire as well on the overall recruitment process quality.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130466966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The 1992 failure of the London Ambulance Service's Computer Aided Despatch (LASCAD) system is well-known. This research suggests that it was not only a failure in a technical or methodological sense but that it was a case of administrative evil. Administrative evil is harm that well-meaning individuals unintentionally commit and remains hidden. Technical rationality and professional expertise create the system for this form of evil to occur. This paper discusses the notion of evil as it applies to organizational phenomena, describes the background and components of administrative evil, and examines the LASCAD case through the lens of administrative evil and the process of moral disengagement.
{"title":"Analyzing the London ambulance service's computer aided despatch (LASCAD) failure as a case of administrative evil","authors":"J. Landry","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542163","url":null,"abstract":"The 1992 failure of the London Ambulance Service's Computer Aided Despatch (LASCAD) system is well-known. This research suggests that it was not only a failure in a technical or methodological sense but that it was a case of administrative evil. Administrative evil is harm that well-meaning individuals unintentionally commit and remains hidden. Technical rationality and professional expertise create the system for this form of evil to occur. This paper discusses the notion of evil as it applies to organizational phenomena, describes the background and components of administrative evil, and examines the LASCAD case through the lens of administrative evil and the process of moral disengagement.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123748171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper, we describe the development and launch of the interdisciplinary Information Systems Minor at Washington College, a selective liberal arts college. We discuss the components of the minor, the way in which strengths and constraints of the school were balanced in the creation of the minor, and the rationale for the selection of courses. The minor is a catalog offering for the 2008-2009 academic year. Future research will track the performance of students enrolled in the minor.
{"title":"Information systems at a liberal arts college: an interdisciplinary minor","authors":"A. Lobo, Susan A. Vowels","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542144","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we describe the development and launch of the interdisciplinary Information Systems Minor at Washington College, a selective liberal arts college. We discuss the components of the minor, the way in which strengths and constraints of the school were balanced in the creation of the minor, and the rationale for the selection of courses. The minor is a catalog offering for the 2008-2009 academic year. Future research will track the performance of students enrolled in the minor.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116017291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：