Examining gender differences in IT professionals' perceptions of job stress in response to technological change

Gallivan, Michael J.

doi:10.1145/761849.761852

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“…Joshi et al [48] Gendered perceptions held by potential IS professionals. Gallivan [29] Adaptation of men and women in IT field to technological innovations in the workplace.…”

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Embracing intersectionality in gender and IT career choice research

Trauth

Cain

Joshi

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the 50th Annual Conference on Computers and People Research

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Results of an examination of with-gender variation in gender stereotypes about the skills and knowledge in the IT profession demonstrates the value of applying an intersectionality perspective in the study of under represented groups in the IT field. Focusing on gender or ethnicity, alone, is insufficient to explain the under representation of women and minorities in IT careers. Rather, we believe that stratifying the population in a more nuanced manner, such as by gender within ethnic group, provides deeper insights into the phenomenon of under representation. Hence, this research approaches the topic of gender and the IT profession from the perspective of intersectionality of gender and ethnicity. Within-gender analysis reveals variation in gender stereotyping by gender-ethnic group. White females and minority males (i.e. Black and Hispanic males) exhibited the most masculine stereotyping of IT skills. In contrast, White males and minority females (i.e. Black and Hispanic females) exhibited the fewest. Three themes emerge from this research. First, the skills that will be increasingly important in the future in distinguishing equivalently credentialed IT professionals were not absorbed into the "masculine" category. Second, hegemonic masculine traits appear to be deeply entrenched in the next generation of IT professionals. Third, when peering more deeply into the gender stereotyping of skills by respondent demographics, what emerges is a pattern that emphasizes the critical role of intersectionality in gender analyses of the IT profession.

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“…Joshi et al [48] Gendered perceptions held by potential IS professionals. Gallivan [29] Adaptation of men and women in IT field to technological innovations in the workplace.…”

Section: Appendix Gender Research At Cpr Conferencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Embracing intersectionality in gender and IT career choice research

Trauth

Cain

Joshi

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the 50th Annual Conference on Computers and People Research

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“…Thus, the individual differences perspective inhabits the middle ground between the essentialist and the social constructivist explanations of the under representation of women in the IT profession. Gallivan (2003) has employed this individual differences theory to explain how different employees deal with and experience stress in the workplace in different ways.…”

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Understanding the under representation of women in IT

Trauth

Quesenberry

Morgan

2004

Proceedings of the 2004 SIGMIS Conference on Computer Personnel Research: Careers, Culture, and Ethics in a Networked Environme

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Among the research challenges in studying the under representation of women in the IT field is that of developing appropriate theory to provide a basis for understanding and explanation about this gender imbalance. At present, there are two dominant theories in the gender literature that are used to explain the participation of women in the IT profession. The essentialist perspective dichotomizes gender based upon the presumption of significant inherent differences between women and men. This view finds the causes of gender under representation in biology. The social construction perspective focuses on the social construction of IT as a male domain, which is interpreted as incompatible with the social construction of female identity. This view finds the causes of gender under representation in the IT sector. The research discussed in this paper is directed at the development of a new theory that focuses on individual differences among women as they relate to the needs and characteristics of IT work and the IT workplace. This view finds the causes of gender under representation in the socio-cultural environment that shapes each woman's gender identity and her professional development, and her individual responses to these influences.

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“…As a strength of their multi-method approach, they highlighted that " [i]t is important to emphasize the holistic nature of this approach…[with which one can gain] a much richer understanding of complex psychosocial processes...[than with] a one-dimensional analysis" (Wastell & Newman, 1996b, p. 285). In a similar vein, Gallivan (2003) combined self-reports and interviews to investigate the implementation of a new technology and highlighted that "[w]hile multi-method studies pose special challenges to researchers, they may also provide unique insights that are not revealed by qualitative or quantitative methods alone" (p. 14). Finally, examined the stress potential of common means of communication in organizations (e.g., meetings, encounters, e-mail) using a combination of self-reports, interviews, and logs.…”

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Technostress Research: A Nurturing Ground for Measurement Pluralism?

Fischer¹,

Riedl²

2017

CAIS

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Abstract:Because technostress research is multidisciplinary in nature and, therefore, benefits from insights gained from various research disciplines, we expected a high degree of measurement pluralism in technostress studies published in the information systems (IS) literature. However, because IS research mostly relies on self-report measures in general, reasons exist to also assume that technostress research has largely neglected multi-method research designs. To assess the status quo of technostress research with respect to the application of multi-method approaches, we analyzed 103 empirical studies. Specifically, we analyzed the types of data-collection methods used and the investigated components of the technostress process (person, environment, stressors, strains, and coping). The results indicate that multi-method research is more prevalent in the IS technostress literature (approximately 37% of reviewed studies) than in the general IS literature (approximately 20% as reported in previous reviews). However, our findings also show that IS technostress studies significantly rely on self-report measures. We argue that technostress research constitutes a nurturing ground for the application of multi-method approaches and multidisciplinary collaboration.

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Examining gender differences in IT professionals' perceptions of job stress in response to technological change

Cited by 18 publications

References 47 publications

Embracing intersectionality in gender and IT career choice research

Embracing intersectionality in gender and IT career choice research

Understanding the under representation of women in IT

Technostress Research: A Nurturing Ground for Measurement Pluralism?

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