Practical intelligence in IT: Assessing soft skills of IT professionals

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 149-154

  Joseph, Damien ^a   Ang, Soon ^a   Chang, Roger H L ^b   Slaughter, Sandra A ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONALS; INTERPERSONAL SKILLS; IT PROFESSIONAL; JAVA PROGRAMMING; OFF-SHORING; SOFT SKILLS; SYSTEMATIC RESEARCH; TECHNICAL SKILLS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OUTSOURCING; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 75749143138     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1646353.1646391     Document Type: Article

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