Career orientation and organizational commitment of IT personnel

Authors:
Mary Sumner;Susan Yager;Denise Franke
Affiliations:
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL;Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL;University of Missouri, Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel research
Year:
2005

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Abstract

The management of information technology (IT) personnel poses unique challenges, but managers may be able to provide IT professionals with appropriate opportunities and career paths by matching individual expectations with job characteristics. This study is designed to identify the career anchors possessed by current IT personnel and to identify which career anchors are the strongest determinants of organizational commitment. Results from a pilot study identified four career anchors or orientations prevalent in IT personnel: Creativity, Autonomy, Identity, and Variety. Responses from sixty-six IT professionals were analyzed; and a weighted variation of Time in Job, Variety, Autonomy, and Identity explained 38% of the variation in Organizational Commitment.