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Career orientation and the global IT workforce: research in progress

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SIGMIS CPR '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel research: The global information technology workforce

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The internationalization of the IT workforce brings new cultural values into the professional environment. Understanding these cultural values is important, because individuals should be able to determine whether their values are matched for working in a particular culture, and whether they will need to adapt their behaviors. This study is designed to identify the career orientations possessed by IT personnel who are U.S. Caucasian vs. Asian Indian in cultural background. Preliminary results of this exploratory study suggest that there is a significant difference between the means of the U.S. and the Asian sample for the Creativity/Entrepreneurship variables.

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Donohue PPower NJoseph DShayo CGuzman IKishore R(2014)Linking career anchors and a social cognitive frameworkProceedings of the 52nd ACM conference on Computers and people research10.1145/2599990.2600010(131-138)Online publication date: 29-May-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2599990.2600010

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SIGMIS CPR '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel research: The global information technology workforce

April 2007

246 pages

ISBN:9781595936417

DOI:10.1145/1235000

General Chairs:
Fred Niederman
St. Louis University, USA
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Mary Sumner
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA
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Diane Lending
James Madison University, USA
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Chelley Vician
Michigan Technological University, USA

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Donohue PPower NJoseph DShayo CGuzman IKishore R(2014)Linking career anchors and a social cognitive frameworkProceedings of the 52nd ACM conference on Computers and people research10.1145/2599990.2600010(131-138)Online publication date: 29-May-2014
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