Perceptions of equity, job satisfaction, and intention to quit among data processors
Information and Management
Impact of the technological environment on programmer/analyst job outcomes
Communications of the ACM
Motivators vs. demotivators in the IS environment
Journal of Systems Management
Behavioural and organisational factors involved in the turnover of high tech professionals
ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel
Environments: Austria compared to the United States
ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel
Motivations and behaviors of software professionals
SIGCPR '88 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCPR conference on Management of information systems personnel
An update measure of supervisor-rated job performance for programmer/analysis
SIGCPR '88 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCPR conference on Management of information systems personnel
Motivation and performance in the information systems field: a survey of related studies
SIGCPR '91 Proceedings of the 1991 conference on SIGCPR
Motivating IT professionals: the Hong Kong challenge
Information and Management
Utilization of the career anchor/career orientation constructs for management of I/S professionals
ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel
The effect of cultural fit/misfit on the productivity and turnover of IS personnel
SIGCPR '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
Managing high achieving information systems professionals
SIGCPR '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
Career anchors of information systems personnel
Journal of Management Information Systems
HRM practices in information technology management
SIGCPR '94 Proceedings of the 1994 computer personnel research conference on Reinventing IS : managing information technology in changing organizations: managing information technology in changing organizations
Competencies of exceptional and nonexceptional software engineers
Journal of Systems and Software
ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel
The role of experimentation in software engineering: past, current, and future
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Software engineering
The importance of salary on job and career attitudes of information systems professionals
Information and Management
A longitudinal study of I/S careers: synthesis, conclusion, and recommendations
SIGCPR '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
The changing systems development job: a job characteristics approach
SIGCPR '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
What motivates Egyptian IS managers and personnel: some preliminary results
SIGCPR '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
Retention and the career motives of IT professionals
SIGCPR '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
Software developer perceptions about software project failure: a case study
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on software engineering education and training for the next millennium
Toward a holistic model of task design for IS professionals
Information and Management
A confirmatory factor analysis of IS employee motivation and retention
Information and Management
Self esteem: moderator between role stress fit and satisfaction and commitment?
SIGCPR '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
Crafting an HR strategy to meet the need for IT workers
Communications of the ACM
SIGCPR '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
SIGCPR '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
SIGCPR '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
The social context of turnover among information technology professionals
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Software Engineering Economics
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An analysis of IS technical career paths and job satisfaction
ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel
Motivating and Managing Computer Personnel
Motivating and Managing Computer Personnel
IEEE Software
Job characteristics and quality of working life in the IT workforce: the role of gender
SIGMIS CPR '03 Proceedings of the 2003 SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research: Freedom in Philadelphia--leveraging differences and diversity in the IT workforce
Instrument validation for investigating a model of employment arrangement fit for IT professionals
SIGMIS CPR '03 Proceedings of the 2003 SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research: Freedom in Philadelphia--leveraging differences and diversity in the IT workforce
Personality types in software engineering
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Perceived career incentives and intent to leave
Information and Management
Causes of turnover among data processing professionals—some preliminary findings
SIGCPR '81 Proceedings of the eighteenth annual computer personnel research conference
Predicting User Trust in Information Systems: A Comparison of Competing Trust Models
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 8 - Volume 8
Employment arrangement fit for IT professionals: an examination of the importance of fit components
Proceedings of the 2004 SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research: Careers, culture, and ethics in a networked environment
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Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
Another look at motivating data processing professionals
ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 09
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Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on computer personnel research: Forty four years of computer personnel research: achievements, challenges & the future
An effort towards identifying occupational culture among information systems professionals
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on computer personnel research: Forty four years of computer personnel research: achievements, challenges & the future
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on computer personnel research: Forty four years of computer personnel research: achievements, challenges & the future
Affective commitment in the public sector: the case of IT employees
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on computer personnel research: Forty four years of computer personnel research: achievements, challenges & the future
Journal of Systems and Software
A Systematic Review of Theory Use in Software Engineering Experiments
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Motivation in Software Engineering: A systematic literature review
Information and Software Technology
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Information and Software Technology
Designing motivation strategies for software engineering teams: an empirical study
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering
Six years of systematic literature reviews in software engineering: An updated tertiary study
Information and Software Technology
A Motivation Guided Holistic Rehabilitation of the First Programming Course
ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE)
Communities of practice and situated learning in computer science
Proceedings of the ninth annual international conference on International computing education research
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Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Evidential assessment of software technologies
Information and Software Technology
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Motivated software engineers make a critical contribution to delivering successful software systems. Understanding the motivations of software engineers and the impact of motivation on software engineering outcomes could significantly affect the industry's ability to deliver good quality software systems. Understanding the motivations of people generally in relation to their work is underpinned by eight classic motivation theories from the social sciences. We would expect these classic motivation theories to play an important role in developing a rigorous understanding of the specific motivations of software engineers. In this article we investigate how this theoretical basis has been exploited in previous studies of software engineering. We analyzed 92 studies of motivation in software engineering that were published in the literature between 1980 and 2006. Our main findings are that many studies of software engineers' motivations are not explicitly underpinned by reference to the classic motivation theories. Furthermore, the findings presented in these studies are often not explicitly interpreted in terms of those theories, despite the fact that in many cases there is a relationship between those findings and the theories. Our conclusion is that although there has been a great deal of previous work looking at motivation in software engineering, the lack of reference to classic theories of motivation means that the current body of work in the area is weakened and our understanding of motivation in software engineering is not as rigorous as it may at first appear. This weakness in the current state of knowledge highlights important areas for future researchers to contribute towards developing a rigorous and usable body of knowledge in motivating software engineers.