Strategies for Managing IS IT Personnel

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 356 pages
• Published by: IGI Global September 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1591401283
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1591401285
• Book Dimensions: 10.5 x 7 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.8 pounds

Book Info
Text explores the challenges faced by organizations as they develop strategies for recruiting, training, retraining, and retaining IT professionals. Hardcover, softcover available. DLC: Electronic data processing personnel--Recruiting.

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 twenty 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.

Reader Reviews
This excellent book serves two great purposes. First, it is one of the most comprehensive discussions on human resource management in the information technology (IT) field. Second, it is the most appropriate commemoration dedicated to one of the most talented scholars in the IT management area, Dr. Magid Igbaria, who passed away at the age of 44 of cancer after a long and brave struggle with the disease. There could not be a better way to commemorate Magid but publishing this last book that he and Dr. Conrad Shayo edited so skillfully. Managing the human resources of Information Technology organizations is very distinct from managing human resources in general. IT employees are different from other employees of the organization. Consequently, human resource management departments face many unrecognized problems when they have to deal with the hiring, retention and promotion of IT personnel. This important book provides a very comprehensive and illuminating discussion of the particular aspects pertaining to HR in the IT area. It's a must for every practitioner and scholar dealing with HR Management of IT personnel. This highly recommended book covers the very important area of Human Resource Management in the IT/IS sector. This area is very unique in nature and cannot be derived from general practices and norms of human resource management. Igbaria and Shayo have made a great job in assembling and editing an illuminating collection of chapters dealing with the various aspect of HR management in IT/IS. Such a book has been missing for many years. At last we have now the opportunity to learn on this issue from a great book. Comment | | (Report this)