Strategies for Managing Is/It Personnel

By Magid Igbaria, Conrad Shayo, Shayo

Studies have shown that the IS profession is characterized by staff skill shortages, high turnover rates, job stress and burnout. This title explores the challenges faced by organizations as they... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591401283
• ISBN13: 9781591401285
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Idea Group Publishing
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.5"

Customer Reviews

An Excellent Guide to IS Turnover Intention

This book is comprised of various research articles which have been contributed by major researchers in the field. Increasing Turnover Rates of Information Systems Personnel have been a major problem in the Information Technology Industry. Articles in this book aim to address this problem by focusing on conceptual variables which contribute most to IS personnel turnover intention. By learning to understand the behavior of IT technical and non-technical employees, managers can better introduce strategies that should contribute to factors such as Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, Perceived Workload, Work Exhaustion, Role Ambiguity and Conflict, Growth Need Strength, and other important indicators. This book should help introduce an interested reader to the major resources needed to do similar research studies at different times and under different conditions.

A Mandatory Book for IT/HR Practitioners and IT/IS Academics

This excellent book serves two great purposes. First, it is one of the most comprehensive discussions on human resource management in the information technology (IT) field. Second, it is the most appropriate commemoration dedicated to one of the most talented scholars in the IT management area, Dr. Magid Igbaria, who passed away at the age of 44 of cancer after a long and brave struggle with the disease. There could not be a better way to commemorate Magid but publishing this last book that he and Dr. Conrad Shayo edited so skillfully. Managing the human resources of Information Technology organizations is very distinct from managing human resources in general. IT employees are different from other employees of the organization. Consequently, human resource management departments face many unrecognized problems when they have to deal with the hiring, retention and promotion of IT personnel. This important book provides a very comprehensive and illuminating discussion of the particular aspects pertaining to HR in the IT area. It's a must for every practitioner and scholar dealing with HR Management of IT personnel.This highly recommended book covers the very important area of Human Resource Management in the IT/IS sector. This area is very unique in nature and cannot be derived from general practices and norms of human resource management. Igbaria and Shayo have made a great job in assembling and editing an illuminating collection of chapters dealing with the various aspect of HR management in IT/IS. Such a book has been missing for many years. At last we have now the opportunity to learn on this issue from a great book.