An empirical study of occupational stress, attitudes and health among information systems personnel
Information and Management
Effects of decision support training and cognitive style on decision process attributes
Journal of Management Information Systems
Cognitive process as a basis for MIS and DSS design
Management Science
Individual differences and decision-making using various levels of aggregation of information
Journal of Management Information Systems
The effects of display formats on information systems design
Journal of Management Information Systems
Mental stress with new technology at the workplace
Proceedings of the third international conference on human-computer interaction, Vol.1 on Work with computers: organizational, management, stress and health aspects
Journal of Management Information Systems
Stress dynamics of information systems managers: a contingency model
Journal of Management Information Systems
A comparison of the decision table and tree
Communications of the ACM
The reasons for turnover of information systems personnel
Information and Management
Task-technology fit and individual performance
MIS Quarterly
An examination of the correlates of burnout in information systems professionals
Information Resources Management Journal
Journal of End User Computing
Cognitive style and on-line database search experience as predictors of web search performance
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: individual differences in virtual environments
Occupational stress, attitudes, and health problems in the information systems professional
Communications of the ACM
An experimental study of the human/computer interface
Communications of the ACM
Crafting an HR strategy to meet the need for IT workers
Communications of the ACM
A Step-by-Step Approach to Using the SAS System for Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling
A Step-by-Step Approach to Using the SAS System for Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling
Role conflict and ambiguity: Critical variables in the MIS user-designer relationship
SIGCPR '80 Proceedings of the seventeenth annual computer personnel research conference
Effects of multimedia on document browsing and navigation: an exploratory empirical investigation
Information and Management
What causes stress in information system professionals?
Communications of the ACM - Homeland security
Computer-mediated knowledge sharing and individual user differences: an exploratory study
European Journal of Information Systems
A Fault Threshold Policy to Manage Software Development Projects
Information Systems Research
Assessing information technology personnel: toward a behavioral rating scale
ACM SIGMIS Database
Antecedents and consequences of job satisfaction among information center employees
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Research in integrating learning capabilities into information systems
Productive development of World Wide Web sites intended for international use
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Information management during systems development: a model for improvement in productivity
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel research: The global information technology workforce
Person-job fit as a moderator of the relationship between emotional intelligence and job performance
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel doctoral consortium and research
Examining the effects of cognitive style in individuals' technology use decision making
Decision Support Systems
The Impact of Technostress on Role Stress and Productivity
Journal of Management Information Systems
IT leadership from a problem solving perspective
Information Technology and Management
Proceedings of the 49th SIGMIS annual conference 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
Technostress: technological antecedents and implications
MIS Quarterly
An Empirical Investigation of Stress Factors in Information Technology Professionals
Information Resources Management Journal
Information Resources Management Journal
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Software developers face a constant barrage of innovations designed to improve the development environment. Yet stress/strain among software developers has been steadily increasing and is at an all-time high, while their productivity is often questioned. Why, if these innovations are meant to improve the environment, are developers more stressed and less productive than they should be? Using a combination of cognitive style and person-environment fit theories as the theoretical lens, this study examines one potential source of stress/strain and productivity impediment among software developers. Specifically, this paper examines the fit between the preferred cognitive style of a software developer and his or her perception of the cognitive style required by the job environment, and the effect of that fit on stress/strain and performance. Data collected from a field study of 123 (object-oriented) software developers suggest that performance decreases and stress increases as this gap between cognitive styles becomes wider. Using surface response methodology, the precise fit relationship is modeled. The interaction of the developer and the environment provides explanatory power above and beyond either of the factors separately, suggesting that studies examining strain and performance of developers should explicitly consider and measure the cognitive style fit between the software developer and the software development environment. In practice, managers can use the results to help recognize misfit, its consequences, and the appropriate interventions (such as training or person/task matching).