A cognitive view of how IT professionals update their technical skills

Proceedings of the ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 70-73

  Tsai, Hsingyi Phoebe ^a   Compeau, Deborah ^a   Haggerty, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive schemata; Coping; Professional obsolescence; Skill updating

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; JOB ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COGNITIVE SCHEMATA; COPING; PROFESSIONAL OBSOLESCENCE; SKILL UPDATING;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 2942667841     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/982372.982387     Document Type: Conference Paper

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