The trend is our friend: German IT personnel's perception of job-related factors before, during and after the economic downturn

Laumer S, Maier C, Eckhardt A, Weitzel T (2011)


Publication Language: English

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2011

Pages Range: 65-70

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMIS Computers and People Research Conference

Event location: San Antonio, TX, USA US

ISBN: 9781450306669

DOI: 10.1145/1982143.1982161

Abstract

With the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers the global economic crisis has reached one of its summits. Before that time CIOs challenged high turnover rates of IT personnel and recruiting, developing and retaining the IT workforce was one of the most important concerns of CIOs. However, the global economic development has changed on the one side the challenges of organizations, and on the other side also the perception of job-related factors of IT talent. Based on this development we compare major IT turnover constructs using three empirical surveys in 2008, 2009 and 2010 in order to discuss how the global economic development influences the perceptions of job-related factors and turnover intentions of German IT personnel. The analysis showed that job satisfaction and organizational commitment is decreasing since 2008, perceived job alternatives are increasing compared to 2009 and turnover intention has reached a maximum in 2010 compared to the two other years in question.

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APA:

Laumer, S., Maier, C., Eckhardt, A., & Weitzel, T. (2011). The trend is our friend: German IT personnel's perception of job-related factors before, during and after the economic downturn. In ACM SIGMIS CPR (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMIS Computers and People Research Conference (pp. 65-70). San Antonio, TX, USA, US.

MLA:

Laumer, Sven, et al. "The trend is our friend: German IT personnel's perception of job-related factors before, during and after the economic downturn." Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMIS Computers and People Research Conference, San Antonio, TX, USA Ed. ACM SIGMIS CPR, 2011. 65-70.

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