Job turnover among MIS professionals: an exploratory study of employee turnover

  • Authors:

  • Fred Niederman;Mary R. Sumner

  • Affiliations:

  • Saint Louis University, Decision Sciences and MIS, Davis-Shaughnessy 303, 3674 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, Missouri;Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Management Information Systems, Campus Box 1106, Edwardsville, Illinois

  • Venue:
  • SIGCPR '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The paper addresses the issue of IT worker turnover. It reports on a survey IT workers who graduated over the past decade (1990-1999) from Saint Louis University. Research questions target IT worker demographics, such as age and gender and job satisfaction, salary, job tasks, and opportunity factors for both prior and current employment. Results included ranking of different factors comprising job satisfaction (satisfaction with financial compensation was high and with fringe benefits was low), observation of significant differences between several satisfaction measures but no task measures between prior and current job, and observation of few correlations between specific tasks performed and salary levels.