A number of studies on career orientations of information systems (IS) personnel have focused on developed countries. This study attempts to examine career anchors of IS personnel from the perspective of a developing country, Botswana. The results of the study show that IS personnel in Botswana exhibit career orientations similar to those identified in literature. However, there are some variations, which are attributed to cultural and socio-economic peculiarities. The study indicates that life style does not feature as a significant career anchor in Botswana. The dominant career anchors include organizational stability (security) and sense of service (service). Gender, age, and educational qualifications tend to moderate the career anchors significantly; thus creating a partition of the anchors across demographic groups.
{"title":"Examining career orientations of information systems personnel in an emerging economy context","authors":"K. V. Mgaya, F. Uzoka, E. Kitindi, A. P. Shemi","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542139","url":null,"abstract":"A number of studies on career orientations of information systems (IS) personnel have focused on developed countries. This study attempts to examine career anchors of IS personnel from the perspective of a developing country, Botswana. The results of the study show that IS personnel in Botswana exhibit career orientations similar to those identified in literature. However, there are some variations, which are attributed to cultural and socio-economic peculiarities. The study indicates that life style does not feature as a significant career anchor in Botswana. The dominant career anchors include organizational stability (security) and sense of service (service). Gender, age, and educational qualifications tend to moderate the career anchors significantly; thus creating a partition of the anchors across demographic groups.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"8 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":"128843966","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 benefits of computer-mediated communication (CMC) are compelling. Businesses leverage CMC to reduce costs, increase employee productivity, and even enable more flexible working arrangements (e.g., telecommuting). In contrast, researchers have also found that CMC has considerable weaknesses as compared to face-to-face (FTF) communication. Without the rich cues afforded by FTF contact, even casual use of CMC can result in feelings of detachment on the part of the sender and feelings of confusion on the part of the recipient. Research is apparently conflicted, therefore, over whether CMC inhibits or enhances relationships. Recent articles have posited that humans have a biological need for meaningful face-to-face exchanges, or "human moments." A human moment is defined as "an authentic human encounter between two participating individuals that can happen only when they share the same physical space"... In contrast, a virtual moment is a dyadic interchange between participating individuals using CMC that results in shared understanding. This paper presents a new model to explain the relative merits of human versus virtual moments and their impact on emotional distance.
{"title":"Human versus virtual moments: a proposed theoretical framework for understanding their implications in the workplace","authors":"Jon Blue, M. Serva, J. Baroudi, John Benamati","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542165","url":null,"abstract":"The benefits of computer-mediated communication (CMC) are compelling. Businesses leverage CMC to reduce costs, increase employee productivity, and even enable more flexible working arrangements (e.g., telecommuting). In contrast, researchers have also found that CMC has considerable weaknesses as compared to face-to-face (FTF) communication. Without the rich cues afforded by FTF contact, even casual use of CMC can result in feelings of detachment on the part of the sender and feelings of confusion on the part of the recipient. Research is apparently conflicted, therefore, over whether CMC inhibits or enhances relationships. Recent articles have posited that humans have a biological need for meaningful face-to-face exchanges, or \"human moments.\" A human moment is defined as \"an authentic human encounter between two participating individuals that can happen only when they share the same physical space\"... In contrast, a virtual moment is a dyadic interchange between participating individuals using CMC that results in shared understanding. This paper presents a new model to explain the relative merits of human versus virtual moments and their impact on emotional distance.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"16 1 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":"123210003","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}
What do IT project managers consider to be the critical skills necessary for project success, and how have they developed those skills? The aim of this research has been to answer these questions. We interviewed thirteen experienced IT project managers from five organizations, focusing first on what the managers perceived as their most critical project management skills, and then on how they had developed those skills. We also discussed their exposure to a wide variety of organizational development interventions. By focusing on how project managers actually learned critical skills, we have been able to uncover the importance of informal learning channels, often involving project experiences, for the development of IT project management skills.
{"title":"Critical skills for IT project management and how they are learned","authors":"Hazel Taylor, J. Woelfer","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542152","url":null,"abstract":"What do IT project managers consider to be the critical skills necessary for project success, and how have they developed those skills? The aim of this research has been to answer these questions. We interviewed thirteen experienced IT project managers from five organizations, focusing first on what the managers perceived as their most critical project management skills, and then on how they had developed those skills. We also discussed their exposure to a wide variety of organizational development interventions. By focusing on how project managers actually learned critical skills, we have been able to uncover the importance of informal learning channels, often involving project experiences, for the development of IT project management skills.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"59 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":"127226471","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}
Unpaid Overtime Working widely exists in current China's software industry. However, there are few empirical studies on this issue. In this paper, we describe an ongoing exploratory study on the unpaid overtime working of the China's software engineers. We use semi-controlled interview as our major research method and some preliminary results are presented. We describe the software engineers' attitudes, current unpaid overtime working situations and summarize six reasons that motivate them accept unpaid overtime working. The influence of the unpaid overtime working is also presented from both the individual and organizational levels.
{"title":"An exploratory study on China's software engineers' unpaid overtime working","authors":"Yi Wang, Huihui Shi","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542169","url":null,"abstract":"Unpaid Overtime Working widely exists in current China's software industry. However, there are few empirical studies on this issue. In this paper, we describe an ongoing exploratory study on the unpaid overtime working of the China's software engineers. We use semi-controlled interview as our major research method and some preliminary results are presented. We describe the software engineers' attitudes, current unpaid overtime working situations and summarize six reasons that motivate them accept unpaid overtime working. The influence of the unpaid overtime working is also presented from both the individual and organizational levels.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"1 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":"129033752","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 discuss the motivating factors behind Information Technology (IT) professionals and what drives their choice of IT as a career. In order to explore this a series of interviews with thirteen IT professionals have been undertaken including a set of preliminary interviews, interviews with IT professionals from a consultancy organisation and a tertiary institution working on a common project, interviews with IT professionals in a large government organisation, and questionnaires distributed to an online community. The individuals participating in this study generally described exposure to technology at an early age and a subsequent interest in technology. These participants went on in later years to show an intrinsic motivation for pursuing technology. For this group of people the opportunity to interact with technology while young assisted them in developing an interest in working with technology and in retaining that interest.
{"title":"Childhood interest in IT and the choice of IT as a career: the experiences of a group of IT professionals","authors":"L. Potter, L. Hellens, Sue Nielsen","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542138","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we discuss the motivating factors behind Information Technology (IT) professionals and what drives their choice of IT as a career. In order to explore this a series of interviews with thirteen IT professionals have been undertaken including a set of preliminary interviews, interviews with IT professionals from a consultancy organisation and a tertiary institution working on a common project, interviews with IT professionals in a large government organisation, and questionnaires distributed to an online community. The individuals participating in this study generally described exposure to technology at an early age and a subsequent interest in technology. These participants went on in later years to show an intrinsic motivation for pursuing technology. For this group of people the opportunity to interact with technology while young assisted them in developing an interest in working with technology and in retaining that interest.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"1 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":"128833852","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}
Prediction markets have recently emerged as a group decision making tool with a range of potential applications, including forecasting, estimation, and innovation management. This research aims to identify the factors that drive or inhibit prediction market adoption within organizations.
{"title":"Managing prediction markets","authors":"P. Buckley, Fergal McGrath","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542173","url":null,"abstract":"Prediction markets have recently emerged as a group decision making tool with a range of potential applications, including forecasting, estimation, and innovation management. This research aims to identify the factors that drive or inhibit prediction market adoption within organizations.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"3 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":"131514760","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}
This paper builds a model showing how people relationships affect job satisfaction and organizational commitment in IT workers. The relationship predictors are trust in management and perceived harmonious teamwork. The effects of these predictors are contrasted with the effects of job characteristics. The general research testing steps are also outlined.
{"title":"Relational roots of IT worker organizational commitment","authors":"D. McKnight","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542147","url":null,"abstract":"This paper builds a model showing how people relationships affect job satisfaction and organizational commitment in IT workers. The relationship predictors are trust in management and perceived harmonious teamwork. The effects of these predictors are contrasted with the effects of job characteristics. The general research testing steps are also outlined.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"74 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":"121996400","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}
Within the college classroom, many skills are difficult to simulate effectively. Online gaming may provide a rich environment for students to learn effective leadership and teamwork. This paper discusses the organizational difficulties of setting up such a simulation, as well as providing a preliminary conceptual framework for instructors to consider when implementing an online game simulation in their classes. The paper concludes with suggestions for encouraging students to apply the concepts they learned in the online world to their actual teams.
{"title":"Leveraging online gaming for teaching student leadership and teamwork","authors":"Cathryn Gorlinsky, M. Serva","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542143","url":null,"abstract":"Within the college classroom, many skills are difficult to simulate effectively. Online gaming may provide a rich environment for students to learn effective leadership and teamwork. This paper discusses the organizational difficulties of setting up such a simulation, as well as providing a preliminary conceptual framework for instructors to consider when implementing an online game simulation in their classes. The paper concludes with suggestions for encouraging students to apply the concepts they learned in the online world to their actual teams.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"1 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":"131252422","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}
Myria W. Allen, Deborah J. Armstrong, Margaret F. Reid, Cynthia K. Riemenschneider
IT employee retention is a serious problem facing many organizations. Building on person-environment fit theory and utilizing survey data drawn from 21 state government IT departments, in this paper we examine the relationship between voluntary turnover and various aspects of the working environments which IT employees perceive to be unique to their profession (i.e., a departmental disposition toward learning and change, opportunities for cross-training, opportunities for job rotation, knowledgeable managers, knowledgeable colleagues, and work exhaustion). Work exhaustion, disposition toward learning and change, knowledgeable managers, and opportunities for cross training explained 30% of the variance in voluntary turnover intentions. Gender differences emerged.
{"title":"IT employee retention: employee expectations and workplace environments","authors":"Myria W. Allen, Deborah J. Armstrong, Margaret F. Reid, Cynthia K. Riemenschneider","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542148","url":null,"abstract":"IT employee retention is a serious problem facing many organizations. Building on person-environment fit theory and utilizing survey data drawn from 21 state government IT departments, in this paper we examine the relationship between voluntary turnover and various aspects of the working environments which IT employees perceive to be unique to their profession (i.e., a departmental disposition toward learning and change, opportunities for cross-training, opportunities for job rotation, knowledgeable managers, knowledgeable colleagues, and work exhaustion). Work exhaustion, disposition toward learning and change, knowledgeable managers, and opportunities for cross training explained 30% of the variance in voluntary turnover intentions. Gender differences emerged.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"72 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":"127787480","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}
This paper attempts to track the changes in importance of IS skills from the perspective of 70 IS managers using latent growth curve modeling. The analysis identifies that the importance of many IS skills are continuously increasing, that wireless communication applications, mobile commerce applications/protocols, IT security, Web applications/services/ protocols, and data management are the top five growing skills and that IT security, data management, project management and other relevant business skills, Web applications/services/ protocols, and wireless communications/applications are expected to be the top five skill sets five years from today. Based on these results, the changing human resource needs of IS profession are discussed, and the challenges and recommendations for IS education are provided.
{"title":"Analyzing the dynamics of skill sets for the U.S. information systems workforceusing latent growth curve modeling","authors":"Kyootai Lee, Dinesh A. Mirchandani","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542153","url":null,"abstract":"This paper attempts to track the changes in importance of IS skills from the perspective of 70 IS managers using latent growth curve modeling. The analysis identifies that the importance of many IS skills are continuously increasing, that wireless communication applications, mobile commerce applications/protocols, IT security, Web applications/services/ protocols, and data management are the top five growing skills and that IT security, data management, project management and other relevant business skills, Web applications/services/ protocols, and wireless communications/applications are expected to be the top five skill sets five years from today. Based on these results, the changing human resource needs of IS profession are discussed, and the challenges and recommendations for IS education are provided.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"1 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":"132897272","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}
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