Precipitating events leading to voluntary employee turnover among information technology professionals

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Von Hagel ◽  
Leslie A. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Employee Turnover ◽  
Information Technology Professionals ◽  
Voluntary Employee Turnover

scholarly journals Information Technology, Privacy, and Power within Organizations: a view from Boundary Theory and Social Exchange perspectives

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey M. Stanton ◽  
Kathryn R. Stam
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Boundary Theory ◽  
Information Technology Professionals ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Monitoring And Surveillance

Over recent years, information technology has played an increasingly important role in the monitoring and surveillance of worker behavior in organizations. In this article, we take the position that managers, workers, and information technology professionals alike see worker-related information as a valuable organizational resource and that processes of social exchange influence how this information resource is controlled. These suppositions are woven together by joining two theories, information boundary theory, a motivational framework for examining privacy at work, and social exchange theory, which provides a perspective on social networks and social power. After discussing these two frameworks and how they might be interlaced, we analyze a corpus of semi-structured interviews with 119 managers, employees, and IT professionals that explored questions of privacy, motivation, and power in six not-for-profit organizations that were undergoing technology-driven change with potential for increased monitoring and surveillance.

scholarly journals The relation between conscientiousness, empowerment and performance

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riëtte Sutherland ◽  
Gideon P. De Bruin ◽  
Freddie Crous
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Employee Empowerment ◽  
Information Technology Professionals ◽  
Curvilinear Relationship ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Service Engineer

This study examined the relationship between conscientiousness, empowerment and job performance among information technology professionals. An Employee Empowerment Questionnaire (EEQ), a Conscientiousness Scale and a Social Desirability Scale were administered to 101 information technology customer service engineers. Managers completed a Performance Evaluation Questionnaire (PEQ) for each customer service engineer. The results indicated a significant relationship between conscientiousness and empowerment. A curvilinear relationship was found between empowerment and performance. The practical and theoretical implications of the findings are discussed.

The Different Aspects of Information Security Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 182-204
Author(s):  
Suchinthi Fernando
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Information Technology Professionals ◽  
Security Education ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Information Assets ◽  
The Way

This chapter discusses the importance of information security education for everyone, ranging from organizations to professionals and students, all the way through to individual users of information and communication systems. It discusses the different subject areas in information security and shows how instead of being intimidated by it, different categories of users can obtain varying depths of information security education based on their cyber-activities and need for knowledge. Information security professionals would require an in-depth knowledge in all aspects of information security, and information technology professionals and students would require an overall education in these areas, while most users of information and communication systems would only require a basic education to help protect their information assets in cyberspace.

Electronic Monitoring in the Workplace

2011 ◽  
pp. 50-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd Carsten Stahl ◽  
Mary Prior ◽  
Sara Wilford ◽  
Dervla Collins
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Electronic Monitoring ◽  
Good Evidence ◽  
Information Technology Professionals ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Surprising Finding

This chapter will start with a discussion of three different pieces of research concerning surveillance. The first study looks at the perception of surveillance by some of those people who supervise and implement it; namely, information systems or information technology professionals. The next study investigates students’ perception of surveillance in their university, while the last one is an in-depth study of two organisations with regard to surveillance. The combining factor of these three studies is that the subjects do not necessarily see surveillance as problematic. Given this surprising finding, this chapter will recount the arguments for and against surveillance as found in the literature. This will lead to a discussion of the reasons why individuals often do not seem to mind surveillance, despite good evidence that it may be psychologically, morally, socially, and even economically harmful. The chapter will end with a discussion of what these findings can mean for people interested in surveillance.

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