Career anchors of information systems personnel
Journal of Management Information Systems
Retention and the career motives of IT professionals
SIGCPR '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
How long will they stay? Predicting an IT professional's preferred employment duration
SIGCPR '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
The other side of turnover: managing IT personnel strategically
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel research
An experimental investigation of turnover intentions among new entrants in it
ACM SIGMIS Database
A systematic review of theory use in studies investigating the motivations of software engineers
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
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Prior research, drawing upon Rousseau's (1995) conception of psychological contracts, proposes that a critical antecedent of staying behavior is an IT professional's preferred employment duration. In previous work we further examined the antecedents of this construct, and argued 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. This paper presents empirical tests of the proposed conceptual model. An experiment with IT professionals at the entry stage of their careers shows that preferred employment duration is significantly influenced by the career anchors of job security and technical competence. We also find that the characteristics of the employing organization, viz., risk and variety, influence preferred employment duration. Perceived variety has a direct effect, while perceived risk negatively moderates the effects of the career anchor of job security on preferred employment duration.