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Most information technology (IT) “fit” literature has taken a structural contingency approach to studying the alignment of IT to organizational characteristics. The research has focused on internal fit, and assumed placid and stable environments. ...

The paper analyzes the relationship between business performance and investments in information technologies. The present economic crisis is shouting unprecedented defiances not only at firms, but also at CIO (Chief Information Officers) and IS ...

Prior research into information systems (IS) personnel has been primarily directed from the perspective of an internal labor market. The assumption underlying that body of research is that agents, i.e., IS workers, form long-term employment ...

This follow-up study contrasted the pre-graduation and post-employment job characteristic preferences vs. realities of a sample of 290 I/S professionals. The preference-reality job characteristic discrepancies, job and career attitudes at follow-up, and ...

This paper concerns the specific problem of the critical levels of staff turnover in the information technology (IT) area in Hong Kong. The aim is to give advice to improve the management of IT personnel. IT management practices are compared with ...

The present study was conducted as exploratory research to understand the activities and beliefs of IS and line managers, with regard to the management of information technology (IT). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 25 managers in seven ...

Information systems (IS) groups are under increasing pressure to contribute to organizational performance and to support, or even drive, broad organizational transformation efforts through the successful exploitation of information technology (IT). ...

Business process reengineering has been proposed as a viable methodology whenever a radical shift in the way an organization performs its functions is desired. However, implementing the outcomes of a business process reengineering effort, viz., a new ...

This paper explores the potential of using multiple software requirements specification methods for elicitation of concepts in the development of university courseware based on the multimedia and hypermedia technology. At universities, the use of ...

Many IS managers consider requirements definition to be one of the most difficult phases in a system analysis and design project. It is also felt that no other phase contributes as much to the potential success or failure of the final product. One of ...

Information technology (IT) offers possibilities for legal practitioners not only as an aid in administrative processes but also for legal tasks. The former have been gradually automated particularly in larger firms but automation regarding the latter ...

This paper reports the results of a study on the effects of practice, a form of on the job training, on the pre-implementation attitudes and on post-implementation use of an information technology. The successful use of information technologies by end ...

Software training research indicates that some end-users do not subsequently transfer learned skills to their jobs. Yet, money, time and effort continue to be invested in formal software training. The three dimensional view presented in this article ...

Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are on their way to becoming the most pervasive interface for desktop systems at least partly because of conventional wisdom about their ease of use. Such an assumption may have been kindled by vendors' claims about the ...

The assessment of the anticipated benefits of new information systems is important to the process of information system planning. A study of the anticipated benefits of 178 projects revealed nine benefits factors: improved information, strategic ...

In this paper a framework is presented for the ex-post evaluation of the quality of information in organizations. The framework brings together several approaches to quality that can be found in the literature, which however, offers no approach to the ...

Many Total quality Management (TQM) implementations have failed to achieve the long-term, substantial gains promised by TQM proponents. Scholars and practitioners blame these failures on different causes which can be linked either directly or indirectly ...

While a great deal of organizational research has been devoted to the study of individual differences and task characteristics as the major determinants of job satisfaction, the role of organizational variables in explaining employee satisfaction has ...

The increasing adoption of computer technology within service sector organizations has generated many studies of how effective use may be made of such systems. In this paper an analysis is made of one such implementation and an appraisal made of the way ...

This research looks at the impact of company codes of ethics, as well as codes of ethics written specifically for information systems (I.S.) employees. Moreover, since the intent of ethics codes is to clarify responsibility, the personality ...

Based on a survey of 443 members of the New Zealand Computer Society, this study examines whether the skills requirements for information systems professionals have changed in the turbulent economic environment New Zealand has experienced during the ...

Hong Kong and United States Information Specialist (IS) professionals' perceptions of work are analyzed according to Hofstede's cultural paradigm. More specifically, the theoretical emphasis of this research is a test of the cultural divergence ...

This paper reviews the job expectations of 200 IS professionals in Hong Kong, all of whom have entered the job market over the last 5 years with professional degree qualifications. The issues related to IS career development are explored in a worldwide ...

Many software organizations face serious problems in their attempts to make expectations and realities meet in introduction of CASE technology. One promising and substantial approach to understand CASE introduction better and to provide guidelines for ...

Researchers and practitioners advocate a participative management style for improving employee productivity and job satisfaction. Field studies have shown that participation has a modest, yet positive influence on productivity and job satisfaction. For ...

Microcomputers and microcomputer technology offer ample opportunity for improving the productivity, decision making, and work quality of government. However, if they are not adequately implemented, the opportunities are lost and resources wasted. One ...

The need to improve systems development quality is increasingly felt by information systems departments in organizations. A clear definition of systems development quality is required to focus quality management efforts. We develop a broader definition ...

Semantic and syntactic aspects of metaphor are explored and explained as a preface to an exposition of the impact on Information Systems (IS) personnel of a popular root metaphor: the personification of the computer. It is suggested that since action ...

The evaluation of existing information systems has gained importance in information systems management. A research project involving ten major Swiss companies and the University of St. Gallen has developed a method for assessing existing system from a ...