IT Career Counseling: Are Occupational Congruence and the Job Characteristics Model Effective at Predicting IT Job Satisfaction?

Autor/inn/en	Carpenter, Darrell; Young, Diana K.; McLeod, Alexander; Maasberg, Michele
Titel	IT Career Counseling: Are Occupational Congruence and the Job Characteristics Model Effective at Predicting IT Job Satisfaction?
Quelle	In: Journal of Information Systems Education, 29 (2018) 4, S.225-238 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1055-3096
Schlagwörter	Information Technology; Career Counseling; Prediction; Models; Talent; Career Choice; Job Applicants; Majors (Students); Student Recruitment; Professional Personnel; Work Attitudes; Personal Autonomy; Employee Attitudes; Interest Inventories; Personality Measures; Vocational Interests; Holland Vocational Preference Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Informationstechnologie; Vorhersage; Analogiemodell; Begabung; Hochbegabung; Bewerber; Personalbestand; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Individuelle Autonomie; Arbeitnehmerinteresse; Interest profile; Interessenprofil; Berufsinteresse
Abstract	The IT industry struggles to attract qualified talent despite an exceptional outlook in terms of both job availability and compensation. Similarly, post-secondary academic institutions report difficulties recruiting students for IT majors. One potential reason for this is that current career counseling practices do not adequately convey relevant job characteristic data to prospective job applicants and academic majors. Accordingly, we report the results of a survey of 72 IT professionals regarding their job interests and perceptions of important characteristics of their current job. We use the data to test the efficacy of Holland's classic occupation congruence model, the basis of current career counseling practices. In addition, we assess an alternate congruence model based on professionals' job perceptions and the Job Characteristics Model of Work Motivation (JCM) to determine which is more effective at predicting desired job outcomes. Results show that a sub-set of JCM constructs including task variety, task identity, and task autonomy is superior to both congruence models in predicting positive job outcomes. This suggests that IT career counseling outcomes might be improved by emphasizing the JCM characteristics. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Journal of Information Systems Education. e-mail: editor@jise.org; Web site: http://www.jise.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01