Who will remain? - An evaluation of actual Person-Job and Person-Team fit to predict developer retention in FLOSS projects
Schilling A, Laumer S, Weitzel T (2012)
Publication Language: English
Publication Status: Published
Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution
Publication year: 2012
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
Pages Range: 3446-3455
Article Number: 6149241
Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
Event location: Maui, HI, USA
ISBN: 9780769545257
Abstract
Today businesses and private households worldwide rely on Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS). Most FLOSS-projects however are threatened in their existence due to a lack of sustained contributors. The early identification of developers who are likely to remain at the project is an eminent task for the management of FLOSS-initiatives. Previous research showed that the subjective judgment of individuals is often inaccurate emphasizing the need to objectively assess retention behavior. Consistent with the concepts Person-Job (P-J) and Person-Team (P-T) fit from recruitment literature, we derive objective measures to predict developer retention in FLOSS-projects. To evaluate our proposed measures we assess the retention of former Google Summer of Code (GSoC) students. The results show that students' prior level of project experience, expertise and communication intensity correlates strongly with their ongoing participation. Surprisingly, our analysis reveals that students with abilities that are underrepresented in the project do not remain considerably longer.
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APA:
Schilling, A., Laumer, S., & Weitzel, T. (2012). Who will remain? - An evaluation of actual Person-Job and Person-Team fit to predict developer retention in FLOSS projects. In Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) (pp. 3446-3455). Maui, HI, USA, US: IEEE Computer Society.
MLA:
Schilling, Andreas, Sven Laumer, and Tim Weitzel. "Who will remain? - An evaluation of actual Person-Job and Person-Team fit to predict developer retention in FLOSS projects." Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Maui, HI, USA Ed. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), IEEE Computer Society, 2012. 3446-3455.
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