Paper Info
Title
Short-term Affair or Long-term Commitment?: An Investigation of Employees without IT Background in IT Jobs
Abstract
The IT profession is constantly changing. The rapid development of technology and the high demand for IT specialists has led to a broader and more diverse profile of IT professionals with fewer boundaries regarding organizations and occupations. As a result, companies have encouraged the migration of employees with different backgrounds into the IT sector. Drawing on the theory of the boundaryless profession, we explore this transformation in IT careers. By studying 355 career sequences of IT professionals in Germany, we investigate the career mobility of employees without an IT background working in IT jobs. Our results show that only around one-third of employees without an IT background remained in IT for the long-term. The majority of the sample, however, either returned to their original sector or moved to another after a few years in IT. Our study contributes to a better understanding of the boundaryless IT profession and sheds light on the role of employees without an IT background in IT jobs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3378539.3393860
SIGMIS-CPR '20: 2020 Computers and People Research Conference Nuremberg Germany June, 2020
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-7130-8
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Barbara Prommegger102.03
Mathias Wendrich200.34
Manuel Wiesche37128.19
Helmut Krcmar42464373.50