How long will they stay? Predicting an IT professional's preferred employment duration

Authors:
Ritu Agarwal;Prabuddha De;Thomas W. Ferratt
Affiliations:
Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD;School of Business Administration, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH;School of Business Administration, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
Venue:
SIGCPR '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
Year:
2001

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Abstract

Agarwal and Ferratt [3] describe a theory of the staying behavior of IT professionals, which combines individual- and organizational- centric views. Their theory, drawing upon Rousseau's [24] conception of psychological contracts, proposes that a critical antecedent of staying behavior is an IT professional's preferred employment duration. The purpose of the research-in-progress described in this paper is to build upon their work by further examining the antecedents of this construct We argue that preferred employment duration is jointly determined by career anchor, life stage, and competencies of the IT professional, with the type of the employing organization serving as a potentially moderating factor. The paper presents the model and describes the conceptual underpinnings for each of its various constructs and relationships. We also briefly discuss a two-phased empirical study to investigate the model.