Measuring value dimensions of IT occupational culture: an exploratory analysis

Jacks, Tim; Palvia, Prashant

doi:10.1007/s10799-013-0170-0

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“…One key finding of this study was that highly acculturated users of IT, who could have been seen as 'ambassadors' have quite high expectations during IS/IT implementation. In addition, IT culture archetypes have been utilised to examine IT management, manage IT acceptance and offer insights for strategic IT use within organisations (Jacks and Palvia, 2014). We argue that the dispersion of use and evaluation of IT that these studies reveal is likely to influence the ongoing innovation and exploitation of benefits from IT investments within organisations.…”

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Approaching information system evaluation methodology and techniques: a comprehensive review

Ababneh

Shrafat

Zeglat

2017

IJBIS

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This paper advances our knowledge of information systems (IS) by drawing ideas and insights from IT/IS evaluation. The emergence and increasing pressure to invest in new IS architecture and infrastructures has become a high priority issue within organisations, and largely influenced by the need to deliver better value products and service through robust and responsive supply chains. With this in mind, business managers are seeking to use appropriate methods and techniques to appraise and justify the financial contribution of IS at strategic, operational and tactical levels. Thus, comprehensive but understandable methodologies are needed to solve the complicated project justification problems arising from the complexity of new technologies. Notwithstanding, a wide body of literature has emerged that sheds light on various methods for evaluating the cost and benefits of IT/IS investment, ranging from simple to very complex techniques. This paper sets out to provide a review of this literature in order to lend insights into our understanding of the plethora of reported research in the literature that has propagated investment justification and benefits management models and frameworks. We show that the IT/IS evaluation literature contributes significantly to scholarship on the IS.

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confidence: 99%

Approaching information system evaluation methodology and techniques: a comprehensive review

Ababneh

Shrafat

Zeglat

2017

IJBIS

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“…In the late 1980s and early 1990s, researchers did not support the idea of IT workers as professionals (Duliba & Baroudi, 1991) or forming a community (Orlikowski & Baroudi, 1988). This researcher found only two empirical works on IT occupational culture in the literature-one qualitative and one quantitative (Chase, 2008;Jacks & Palvia, 2014). These limited findings suggest a gap in research and a potentially understudied area.…”

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“…can be defined as the values, norms, and symbols shared by those who work in the occupation of IT" (Jacks & Palvia, 2014, p. 20). The discussion of IT occupational culture research is thin in the literature (Jacks & Palvia, 2014). IT professional culture is vital to this study because IT professionals will be both the participants and the subject matter under investigation in this work.…”

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“…(Jacks & Palvia, 2014, p. 19) This definition helps to establish the context for this study. Jacks and Palvia (2014) posit that IT occupational culture is not unique to each organization. Instead, they believe that IT professionals anywhere share the same norms, values, beliefs, and symbols (Jacks & Palvia, 2014).…”

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“…Jacks and Palvia (2014) posit that IT occupational culture is not unique to each organization. Instead, they believe that IT professionals anywhere share the same norms, values, beliefs, and symbols (Jacks & Palvia, 2014). Likewise, they argue that cultural conflict is present when interaction among IT and other occupational units occurs (Nord, Nord, Cormack, & Cater-Steel, 2006).…”

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Within organizations, groups often create an "us" versus "them" stance, which leads to conflict. Subgroups are smaller units within an organizational department and are based on similar attributes. This study describes and examines Chief Information Officers' (CIOs') experiences of interactions among their Information Technology (IT) subgroups and how differing subgroup perspectives may have created conflict that resulted in team ineffectiveness and inefficiency for the organization. Group Faultline Theory offers a constructive lens through which to view this research relating to the creation of subgroups and the subsequent conflict. Four current higher education CIOs were recruited for this study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and a metaphorical drawing was collected from the participants and used for data analysis. Seven significant themes were identified from the analysis. These themes were (1) Communication; (2) Leadership; (3) Relationship Building; (4) Emotions; (5) Training; (6) Groups and Teamwork; and (7) Process. From these themes, five key findings were identified. First, all seven significant themes interconnect with each other revealing a very complex inter-relatedness. Second, conflict can be assessed by identifying low-and high-conflict traits. These traits form a spectrum of highconflict traits on one side, and low-conflict traits on the other. Third, with ineffective leadership-that is, when high-conflict traits are promoted and low-conflict traits are suppressed-the team will likely spiral into increasingly poor productivity. Fourth, leaders who attack the issue of conflict by applying their skills to promote low-conflict traits among their team members and to minimize high-conflict traits will be rewarded with a highly productive and effective team. Fifth, IT subgroup conflict was not of concern to the participants, however, interdepartmental conflict and individual-to-individual conflict were perceived to be important issues.

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Measuring value dimensions of IT occupational culture: an exploratory analysis

Cited by 20 publications

References 37 publications

Approaching information system evaluation methodology and techniques: a comprehensive review

Approaching information system evaluation methodology and techniques: a comprehensive review

Subgroups, conflict, and leadership in higher education information technology : an interpretative phenomenological analysis exploration

Using ontologies to perform threat analysis and develop defensive strategies for mobile security

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