Strategies for Managing IS/IT Personnel: (Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development)

Information technology continues to revolutionarize the way commercial enterprises, government, and individuals conduct business. Sustained success in value creation in today's networked economies depends in part on how organizations are effective in attracting, developing, and retaining talented IS professionals. The magnitude of the challenges that face organizations in managing IS professionals demand clearer and more cohesive strategies than currently exist. Firms with more effective strategies formanaging IS professionals will consistently outperform their peers. Studies have shown that the IS profession is now characterized by low skilled staff, high turnover rates, job stress, and burnout. Strategies for Managing IS/IT Personnel explores the challenges faced by organizations as they develop strategies for recruiting, training, retraining and retaining IT professional. The book should be valuable to all managers, researchers, teachers and students who want to learn about issues related to the IS professional career and how strategies for recruiting, training, retraining and retaining the "best and the brightest" IT talent can be designed, implemented and monitored.

About the Author :
Magid Igbaria was Professor of Information Science at the Claremont Graduate University and at the Faculty of Management, Graduate School of Business, Tel Aviv University. Formerly, he was a Visiting Professor of Decision Sciences at the University of Hawaii in Manoa and a Professor of MIS at the College of Business & Administration, with Drexel University. He has published articles on electronic commerce, virtual workplace, information economics, computer technology acceptance, IS personnel, management of IS, compumetrical approaches in IS, and international IS in Communications of the ACM, Computers & Operations Research, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Information & Management, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Omega, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, MIS Quarterly, and others. His research interests focused on electronic commerce, virtual workplace, computer technology acceptance, information and computer economics management of IS, IS personnel, and international IS. Conrad Shayo is a Professor of Information Science at California State University San Bernardino. Over the last 20 years he has worked in various capacities as a university professor, consultant, and manager. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree and a Master of Science Degree in Information Science from the Claremont Graduate University, formerly Claremont Graduate School. He also holds an MBA in Management Science from the University of Nairobi, Kenya; and a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Finance from the University of Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania. His research interests are in the areas of IT assimilation, distributed learning, end-user computing, organizational memory, organizational learning assessment, reusable learning objects, IT strategy, and “virtual societies”. His most recent publications can be found in the Information Systems Journal, Journal of End User Computing, and the Encyclopedia of Library Sciences and Information Technology.