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

  • Authors:
  • Sven Laumer;Christian Maier;Andreas Eckhardt;Tim Weitzel

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany;University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany;Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany;University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 49th SIGMIS annual conference on Computer personnel research
  • Year:
  • 2011

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

With the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers the global economic crisis has reached one of its summits. Before that time CIO's challenged high turnover rates of IT personnel and recruiting, developing and retaining the IT workforce was one of the most important concerns of CIOs [21]. However, the global economic development has changed on the one side the challenges of organizations [22], and on the other side also the perception of job-related factors of IT talent [17]. 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.