Students choose a major based on a number of factors, with interest in the subject matter consistently being important. Given declining MIS enrollments at our university, we seek to understand our students' selection of a major so that we may take appropriate steps to address the decline. Besides understanding our situation better, we seek to contribute to the literature by developing a deeper understanding of what is meant by interest in the major. Our research is guided by the theory of planned behavior (TPB). Our primary focus is to examine students' expected outcomes that lead to attitudes, with a particular focus on aspects of an MIS major that generate interest in the major. We will use open-ended survey questions and conduct qualitative interviews with students at our university, including new and returning students, MIS and non-MIS majors. Results will be reported at the conference.
{"title":"Why students choose MIS: what makes a major-job-career in management information systems interesting?","authors":"T. Ferratt, S. R. Hall, J. Prasad, D. Wynn","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542140","url":null,"abstract":"Students choose a major based on a number of factors, with interest in the subject matter consistently being important. Given declining MIS enrollments at our university, we seek to understand our students' selection of a major so that we may take appropriate steps to address the decline. Besides understanding our situation better, we seek to contribute to the literature by developing a deeper understanding of what is meant by interest in the major. Our research is guided by the theory of planned behavior (TPB). Our primary focus is to examine students' expected outcomes that lead to attitudes, with a particular focus on aspects of an MIS major that generate interest in the major. We will use open-ended survey questions and conduct qualitative interviews with students at our university, including new and returning students, MIS and non-MIS majors. Results will be reported at the conference.","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":"125739178","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}
Xuesong Zhang, L. Olfman, P. Ractham, Daniel Firpo
Traditional ePortfolio systems are usually used as an individual learning unit, or an assessment tool in education. However, these systems' often lack social constructive learning features such as sharing, peer review, and group collaboration. This paper describes a new ePortfolio system that supports both personal and social constructive learning, and reports on its implementation and evaluation in a Management Information Systems course. Student surveys and interviews showed that students found the software easy to use and beneficial to learning and knowledge sharing. This paper also discusses design problems in current e-learning systems and reasons for promoting both personal and social constructive learning supports in e-learning systems.
{"title":"The implementation and evaluation of KEEP SLS: an eportfolio system supporting social constructive learning","authors":"Xuesong Zhang, L. Olfman, P. Ractham, Daniel Firpo","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542135","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional ePortfolio systems are usually used as an individual learning unit, or an assessment tool in education. However, these systems' often lack social constructive learning features such as sharing, peer review, and group collaboration. This paper describes a new ePortfolio system that supports both personal and social constructive learning, and reports on its implementation and evaluation in a Management Information Systems course. Student surveys and interviews showed that students found the software easy to use and beneficial to learning and knowledge sharing. This paper also discusses design problems in current e-learning systems and reasons for promoting both personal and social constructive learning supports in e-learning systems.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"43 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":"116330008","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 didactic study is to demonstrate how latent growth models (LGM) can be utilized to measure changes in student's computer self efficacy (CSE) over time. LGM is a special application of structural equation modeling (SEM), an analytic tool that is popular among MIS researchers. LGMs have been used to study longitudinal changes in observed and/or latent variables over time in several other fields such as psychology, sociology, and management. To promote its use within MIS research, this paper provides a primer on the application of LGM using CSE data gathered from freshmen enrolled in the introduction to MIS class. We illustrate unconditional and conditional LGMs, and highlight the types of research questions such models can address. We discuss issues related to data requirements, model identification, estimation methods, sample size requirements, and model fit assessment statistics for LGMs, and conclude by providing avenues of further longitudinal research in MIS that can benefit from the use of LGMs.
{"title":"Leveraging latent growth models to better understand MIS theory: a primer","authors":"H. Kher, M. Serva, Spring Davidson, Ellen F. Monk","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542161","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this didactic study is to demonstrate how latent growth models (LGM) can be utilized to measure changes in student's computer self efficacy (CSE) over time. LGM is a special application of structural equation modeling (SEM), an analytic tool that is popular among MIS researchers. LGMs have been used to study longitudinal changes in observed and/or latent variables over time in several other fields such as psychology, sociology, and management. To promote its use within MIS research, this paper provides a primer on the application of LGM using CSE data gathered from freshmen enrolled in the introduction to MIS class. We illustrate unconditional and conditional LGMs, and highlight the types of research questions such models can address. We discuss issues related to data requirements, model identification, estimation methods, sample size requirements, and model fit assessment statistics for LGMs, and conclude by providing avenues of further longitudinal research in MIS that can benefit from the use of LGMs.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"15 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":"116122971","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}
K. Swigger, F. Alpaslan, Victor Lopez Cabrera, R. Brazile, Georgios A. Dafoulas, F. Serçe
A team performance model provided an organizing framework for studying multi-cultural distributed learning teams. Structural equation modeling was used to test for relationships among individual, cultural and attitudes about collaborative work factors and team performance. The paper describes this model and its theoretical basis and reports on results from two pilot projects involving 152 students from the US, Panama, UK, and Turkey. While the model shows satisfactory fit, the results suggest that other factors may also influence how well students work together on global software projects. Future research, followed by model development, should incorporate these factors to capture the complexity of the educational and training environments.
{"title":"Structural factors that affect global software development learning team performance","authors":"K. Swigger, F. Alpaslan, Victor Lopez Cabrera, R. Brazile, Georgios A. Dafoulas, F. Serçe","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542167","url":null,"abstract":"A team performance model provided an organizing framework for studying multi-cultural distributed learning teams. Structural equation modeling was used to test for relationships among individual, cultural and attitudes about collaborative work factors and team performance. The paper describes this model and its theoretical basis and reports on results from two pilot projects involving 152 students from the US, Panama, UK, and Turkey. While the model shows satisfactory fit, the results suggest that other factors may also influence how well students work together on global software projects. Future research, followed by model development, should incorporate these factors to capture the complexity of the educational and training environments.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"58 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":"117076902","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}
As the IT unit increases its strategic alignment with the organization, technical people of all levels are required to become more customer-focused. It has been suggested that a service orientation on the part of IT personnel can be a contributing factor to the IT unit's service quality. However, IT workers do not exist in a vacuum, but must work within organizational constraints and incentives. Therefore, despite an IT worker's service orientation or lack thereof, these organizational factors may or may not encourage service oriented behaviors, which in turn affect perceived IT service quality. This research in progress examines the question: is a lack of service oriented skills on the part of IT workers, if such is the case, inherent in the individual personality (nature) or a function of the organizational environment in which he or she must function (nurture)?
{"title":"Nature versus nurture: an examination of factors that contribute to IT service quality","authors":"Janette W. Moody","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542164","url":null,"abstract":"As the IT unit increases its strategic alignment with the organization, technical people of all levels are required to become more customer-focused. It has been suggested that a service orientation on the part of IT personnel can be a contributing factor to the IT unit's service quality. However, IT workers do not exist in a vacuum, but must work within organizational constraints and incentives. Therefore, despite an IT worker's service orientation or lack thereof, these organizational factors may or may not encourage service oriented behaviors, which in turn affect perceived IT service quality. This research in progress examines the question: is a lack of service oriented skills on the part of IT workers, if such is the case, inherent in the individual personality (nature) or a function of the organizational environment in which he or she must function (nurture)?","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"88 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":"127657369","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}
Offshore outsourcing of information systems application development (ISD) has grown tremendously in the past decade. Executing such projects requires collaboration from project participants across the client and vendor firms, located in different countries. However, orchestrating effective collaboration, across teams separated by geographic, organizational and cultural contexts, has emerged as a significant challenge in managing offshored projects. In this research, we examine the usefulness of boundary spanning in addressing this challenge. Specifically, we focus on the role of client project manager as a boundary spanner, connecting the distributed team members from both client and vendor firms, and facilitating expertise sharing and coordination. We present a multi-dimensional conceptualization of the boundary spanning activities of the client project manager. Utilizing an organizational capital perspective, we examine capital generated in offshore project teams through boundary spanning, as a potential mechanism through which boundary spanning effects successful project outcomes.
{"title":"Boundary spanning in offshored ISD projects: a project social capital perspective","authors":"Poornima Krishnan, C. Ranganathan","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542175","url":null,"abstract":"Offshore outsourcing of information systems application development (ISD) has grown tremendously in the past decade. Executing such projects requires collaboration from project participants across the client and vendor firms, located in different countries. However, orchestrating effective collaboration, across teams separated by geographic, organizational and cultural contexts, has emerged as a significant challenge in managing offshored projects. In this research, we examine the usefulness of boundary spanning in addressing this challenge. Specifically, we focus on the role of client project manager as a boundary spanner, connecting the distributed team members from both client and vendor firms, and facilitating expertise sharing and coordination. We present a multi-dimensional conceptualization of the boundary spanning activities of the client project manager. Utilizing an organizational capital perspective, we examine capital generated in offshore project teams through boundary spanning, as a potential mechanism through which boundary spanning effects successful project outcomes.","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":"127624685","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}
Michael L. Harris, Tim Klaus, Stephen C. Wingreen, M. Domino, C. LeRouge, Sandra K. Newton, J. Blanton
IT professionals have faced a labor market with extremely fluctuating demand. Labor market changes such as outsourcing and off-shoring can create concerns about job security, which in turn may affect IT professionals' organizational attitudes. This paper uses psychological contract theory to examine the effects of job security and other employment considerations of IT professionals on their organizational attitudes. Findings of the study suggest that job security, compensation, and new opportunities have a positive effect on their job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Based upon these findings, a discussion is provided on the structure of employment considerations.
{"title":"The effects of job security and other employment considerations on the organizational attitudes of IT professionals","authors":"Michael L. Harris, Tim Klaus, Stephen C. Wingreen, M. Domino, C. LeRouge, Sandra K. Newton, J. Blanton","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542146","url":null,"abstract":"IT professionals have faced a labor market with extremely fluctuating demand. Labor market changes such as outsourcing and off-shoring can create concerns about job security, which in turn may affect IT professionals' organizational attitudes. This paper uses psychological contract theory to examine the effects of job security and other employment considerations of IT professionals on their organizational attitudes. Findings of the study suggest that job security, compensation, and new opportunities have a positive effect on their job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Based upon these findings, a discussion is provided on the structure of employment considerations.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"22 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":"131369174","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}
Much has been written about the steep decline in enrollments in university-based information technology (IT) programs. Not only is this phenomenon important to employers of graduates of these programs, it is also of great importance to the academic units that house these programs. This paper describes one university's novel approach to investigate the causes of this decline and to develop tactics to reverse this trend.
{"title":"Harnessing IT student insight and energy tounderstand and address the IT enrollment issue","authors":"J. Moore, Timothy Schoenecker, S. Yager","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542156","url":null,"abstract":"Much has been written about the steep decline in enrollments in university-based information technology (IT) programs. Not only is this phenomenon important to employers of graduates of these programs, it is also of great importance to the academic units that house these programs. This paper describes one university's novel approach to investigate the causes of this decline and to develop tactics to reverse this trend.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"40 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":"133099712","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 debate on distance teams, mostly virtual teams, has been especially prominent in the academic literature for the last few years. Among the different concepts that have been studied by researchers, little attention has been paid explicitly to national culture. Although sometimes presented as a positive element of virtual teams, cultural diversity is mainly considered as a barrier to their development and management. In this study, I identify several limitations of the prior literature and note the paucity of cross-cultural theories (other than of Hofstede's dimensions). As a solution, I propose a new framework that combines contributions of both essentialist and socio-constructivist perspectives of cross-cultural theories.
{"title":"Cultural diversity of distributed teams","authors":"M. Chauvet","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542174","url":null,"abstract":"The debate on distance teams, mostly virtual teams, has been especially prominent in the academic literature for the last few years. Among the different concepts that have been studied by researchers, little attention has been paid explicitly to national culture. Although sometimes presented as a positive element of virtual teams, cultural diversity is mainly considered as a barrier to their development and management. In this study, I identify several limitations of the prior literature and note the paucity of cross-cultural theories (other than of Hofstede's dimensions). As a solution, I propose a new framework that combines contributions of both essentialist and socio-constructivist perspectives of cross-cultural theories.","PeriodicalId":373151,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '09","volume":"185 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":"121254382","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}
Despite the benefits of information technology for corporations in staff recruitment (reduced time and costs per hire) the increased use also led to glut of applications especially in major enterprises. Therefore the companies forced to find the best candidate in times of a "War for Talent" need help to find this needle in a haystack. This help could be provided by recommender systems predominately used in e-commerce to recommend products or services to customers purchasing specific products. Recommender systems could assist the recruiter to find the adequate candidate within the applicant's database. In order to support this search and selection process we conduct a design science approach to integrate recommender systems in a holistic e-recruiting architecture and therewith provide a complete and new solution for IT support in staff recruitment.
{"title":"Help to find the needle in a haystack: integrating recommender systems in an IT supported staff recruitment system","authors":"Sven Laumer, Andreas Eckhardt","doi":"10.1145/1542130.1542133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542133","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the benefits of information technology for corporations in staff recruitment (reduced time and costs per hire) the increased use also led to glut of applications especially in major enterprises. Therefore the companies forced to find the best candidate in times of a \"War for Talent\" need help to find this needle in a haystack. This help could be provided by recommender systems predominately used in e-commerce to recommend products or services to customers purchasing specific products. Recommender systems could assist the recruiter to find the adequate candidate within the applicant's database. In order to support this search and selection process we conduct a design science approach to integrate recommender systems in a holistic e-recruiting architecture and therewith provide a complete and new solution for IT support in staff recruitment.","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":"129092474","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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