Datamation
In search of the perfect programmer
Datamation
Journal of Management Information Systems
Personality type, career preference and implications for computer science recruitment and teaching
ACSE '98 Proceedings of the 3rd Australasian conference on Computer science education
Turnover among DP personnel: a casual analysis
Communications of the ACM
The joint impact of internal and external career anchors on entry-level IS career satisfaction
Information and Management
Turnover of IT professionals: a quantitative analysis of the literature
SIGMIS CPR '03 Proceedings of the 2003 SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research: Freedom in Philadelphia--leveraging differences and diversity in the IT workforce
Decision paths affecting turnover among information technology professionals
SIGMIS CPR '03 Proceedings of the 2003 SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research: Freedom in Philadelphia--leveraging differences and diversity in the IT workforce
Personality types in software engineering
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
An examination of prestigious stigma: the case of the technology geek
Proceedings of the 2004 SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research: Careers, culture, and ethics in a networked environment
Who should work with whom?: building effective software project teams
Communications of the ACM - Wireless sensor networks
The personality of the systems analyst: an investigation
ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel
Identifying the prototypical career paths of IT professionals: a sequence and cluster analysis
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel research
Person-Job Cognitive Style Fit for Software Developers: The Effect on Strain and Performance
Journal of Management Information Systems
A necessary clarification of the unfolding model of voluntary turnover
Proceedings of the special interest group on management information system's 47th annual conference on Computer personnel research
Personality types of IT professors
Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on SIG-information technology education
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A new model for understanding job turnover was introduced into the management literature a decade ago [26], analyzing the process by which employees decide to leave their jobs. This "unfolding model of voluntary turnover" is a radical departure from traditional models of job turnover, positing that turnover is not necessarily triggered by job dissatisfaction. In addition to empirical testing with nurses, accountants, and other knowledge workers, the unfolding model has also been applied to study IS personnel. Based on a study of IS graduates from two American universities, Niederman and Sumner [34] concluded that IS employees appear not to follow the common decision paths identified by Lee and Mitchell in their initial conceptualization of the unfolding model; instead, a vast majority of respondents followed turnover decisions path not specified in the model. Although other modifications to the model have since been made [12], it is still not clear why the study of IS professionals diverged so much from prior studies of other types of knowledge workers. We first explore and identify the divergence of results between IS employees and other occupations that have been studied with the model, and then propose that an individual's personality type can affect the likelihood that he or she will follow specific decision paths in the model -- such as leaving without having a new job arranged in advance. We contribute to the IS personnel literature by offering a novel explanation for the divergence in prior empirical results. In addition, by examining personality type, we seek to open a new area of study, in terms of examining the relationship between personality type and employees' preferences for following certain paths leading to job turnover.