The trend is our friend: German IT personnel's perception of job-related factors before, during and after the economic downturn

SIGMIS CPR 2011 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 65-70

  Laumer, Sven ^a   Maier, Christian ^a   Eckhardt, Andreas ^b   Weitzel, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Economic downturn; It personnel; Job alternatives; Job perception; Job satisfaction; Organizational commitment; Turnover intention

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DOWNTURN; IT PERSONNEL; JOB ALTERNATIVES; JOB PERCEPTION; ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT; TURNOVER INTENTION;

JOB SATISFACTION;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 79958717867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1982143.1982161     Document Type: Conference Paper

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