Pathfinder associative networks: studies in knowledge organization
Pathfinder associative networks: studies in knowledge organization
Determinants of MIS employees' turnover intentions: a structural equation model
Communications of the ACM
The reasons for turnover of information systems personnel
Information and Management
Software Magazine
An examination of the correlates of burnout in information systems professionals
Information Resources Management Journal
Understanding software operations support expertise: a revealed causal mapping approach
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on Intensive research in information systems: using qualitative, interpretive, and case methods to study information technology—third installment
Crafting an HR strategy to meet the need for IT workers
Communications of the ACM
The professional development challenge for IT professionals
Communications of the ACM - Supporting community and building social capital
SIGMIS CPR '03 Proceedings of the 2003 SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research: Freedom in Philadelphia--leveraging differences and diversity in the IT workforce
An examination of gender effects on career success of information systems employees
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Information technology and IT organizational impact
Journal of Management Information Systems
Advancement, voluntary turnover and women in IT: A cognitive study of work-family conflict
Information and Management
An investigation of work family conflict among IT professionals
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel doctoral consortium and research
How IT project managers cope with stress
Proceedings of the 2010 Special Interest Group on Management Information System's 48th annual conference on Computer personnel research on Computer personnel research
Challenges and barriers facing women in the IS workforce: how far have we come?
Proceedings of the 49th SIGMIS annual conference on Computer personnel research
Proceedings of the 50th annual conference on Computers and People Research
Exploring gender and job embeddedness in information technology professionals
Proceedings of the 50th annual conference on Computers and People Research
Theoretical approaches to gender and IT: examining some Australian evidence
Information Systems Journal
Information Systems Journal
Do economic recession and gender influence the likelihood of entry job in IT for IT graduates?
Proceedings of the 2013 annual conference on Computers and people research
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The percentage of women working in Information Technology (IT) is falling as revealed by the 2003 Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) Blue Ribbon Panel on Information Technology (IT) Diversity report; the percentage of women in the IT workforce fell to 34.9% in 2002 down from 41% in 1996. Several studies have indicated this issue is reaching a crisis level and needs to be explored. Women working in IT at a Fortune 500 company were asked what workplace barriers they faced that had influenced their voluntary turnover decisions or the decisions of their female counterparts. Revealed causal mapping was used to evoke representations of the cognitions surrounding the barriers women face in the IT field. A causal map was developed that indicated women's actual turnover was linked to their views of their family responsibilities, the stresses they face within the workplace, various qualities of their jobs, and the flexibility they were given to determine their work schedule. Their statements regarding the barriers they faced in terms of promotion opportunities (both perceived and actual) were linked to the same four concepts. Interestingly, there was no link between promotion opportunities and voluntary turnover. Reciprocal relationships were identified between managing family responsibility and stress, work schedule flexibility and stress, managing family responsibility and job qualities, and job qualities and stress. Discrimination and lack of consistency in how management treated employees, while important, were not central to how the women in this sample thought about issues related to promotion and voluntary turnover.