Sustaining the IT workforce: A review of major issues in 25 years and future directions

Oehlhorn CE, Laumer S, Maier C (2019)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2019

Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc

Pages Range: 20-27

Conference Proceedings Title: SIGMIS-CPR 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 Computers and People Research Conference

Event location: Nashville, TN US

ISBN: 9781450360883

DOI: 10.1145/3322385.3322394

Abstract

Attracting, recruiting and retaining a sufficient number of information technology professionals remains a key issue for organizations. Although research and practice call upon this issue for quite some time and suggest various interventions, the shortage of qualified IT professionals does not decline, but seems to increase. Thus, sustaining the IT workforce represents a recurring issue faced with challenges that are fixed firmly within the domain. This literature review aims to identify the major issues related to sustaining IT professionals from a human resource management perspective. Sixty-seven research articles from the AIS Senior Scholars’ basket are reviewed to identify the major issues respectively to the past times from the dot com boom during the 1990s, across industry recession in 2001 up to the present day. Four major issues are explained and discussed.

Authors with CRIS profile

Sven Laumer Schöller Endowed Chair for Information Systems (Digitalization in Business and Society)

Involved external institutions

Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Oehlhorn, C.E., Laumer, S., & Maier, C. (2019). Sustaining the IT workforce: A review of major issues in 25 years and future directions. In SIGMIS-CPR 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 Computers and People Research Conference (pp. 20-27). Nashville, TN, US: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.

MLA:

Oehlhorn, Caroline E., Sven Laumer, and Christian Maier. "Sustaining the IT workforce: A review of major issues in 25 years and future directions." Proceedings of the 56th Association of Computing Machinery Annual Computers and People Research Conference, ACM SIGMIS-CPR 2019, Nashville, TN Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2019. 20-27.

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