Managing High-Achieving Information Systems Professionals

The research reported here is part of an ongoing longitudinal study of career maturation and progression involving a national sample of information system (lIS) professionals. The present study describes the job characteristic preferences and self-described personal attributes and work traits (depen...

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Published in:Journal of management information systems 1993-04, Vol.9 (4), p.103-120
Main Authors: Smits, Stanley J., McLean, Ephraim R., Tanner, John R.
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Academic achievement
Behavior
Career advancement
career progression
Differences
gender or sex differences
Grade point average
high performing personnel
Human resource management
Information management
Information storage and retrieval systems
Information systems
information systems professionals
Job design
Longitudinal studies
Management information systems
managing high achievers
Men
Motivation
Personality traits
personnel management
Professionals
Questionnaires
Special Section: Computer Personnel Research
Students
Studies
Success
Tanneries
Theory
Universities
Variables
Women
Work environment
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Behavior
Career advancement
career progression
Differences
gender or sex differences
Grade point average
high performing personnel
Human resource management
Information management
Information storage and retrieval systems
Information systems
information systems professionals
Job design
Longitudinal studies
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managing high achievers
Men
Motivation
Personality traits
personnel management
Professionals
Questionnaires
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Students
Studies
Success
Tanneries
Theory
Universities
Variables
Women
Work environment
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