IS employee attitudes and perceptions at varying levels of software process maturity

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 601-624

  Ply, Janet K ^a   Moore, Jo Ellen ^b   Williams, Clay K ^b   Thatcher, Jason Bennett ^c  

^a Pendére   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMM; Control theory; Cynicism; IS professionals; Job satisfaction; Professional efficacy; Role ambiguity; Role conflict; Software process improvement; Work overload

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; JOB SATISFACTION; SOFTWARE TESTING;

CYNICISM; IS PROFESSIONALS; PROFESSIONAL EFFICACIES; ROLE AMBIGUITIES; ROLE CONFLICTS; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; WORK OVERLOADS;

COMPUTER CONTROL;

EID: 84864917496     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/41703469     Document Type: Article

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