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Beyond stereotypes of IT professionals: implications for IT HR practices

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Harvey G. Enns,

Thomas W. Ferratt,

Jayesh PrasadAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 49, Issue 4

Pages 105 - 109

https://doi.org/10.1145/1121949.1121956

Published: 01 April 2006 Publication History

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IT professionals are complicated---managers need to go beyond stereotypes to truly understand them.

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