Vol. 11(4) December 2018
A Gender based Investigation of Stereotypical Barriers
in Management Information Systems Profession
Akbulut Asli Yagmur and Motwani Jaideep
Page No: 1-9
Negative stereotypes are assumed to be one of the major
barriers preventing students from pursuing Information Technology (IT) degrees and
careers. An important worldwide problem, the underrepresentation of women in IT,
has also been linked to negative stereotypes. In today’s information age, overcoming
these stereotypes to attract more students to the IT field is extremely important
for the advancement of our economy and society.
Previous research has focused on students’ stereotypes in the technical IT fields.
There is a lack of research that investigates students’ stereotypes in the newer,
more business focused IT subfields such as the Management Information Systems (MIS)
field. In this respect, this study investigated students’ stereotypical image of
MIS professionals and compared male and female students’ perceptions. It also examined
whether the introductory level course played a role in altering female and male
students’ stereotypical image of MIS professionals. The findings carry several important
implications for MIS programs and educators.
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Supply Chain Management: Opportunities and Challenges
Dulababu T., Lakshmi R.B. and Babu Girish
Page No: 9-12
This paper analyzes the status of India in Supply Chain
Management (SCM) and why India is unable to tap the opportunities and prescribes
how can the nation look forward to capitalize the opportunities.
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Re-Visiting the Roles of Project Management Maturity
and Organisational Culture for Perceived Performance – A Replication based on German
Data
Busse Ronald and Henze Tamara
Page No: 13-30
Project management is a key success factor. As studies
on benefits of high levels of project management maturity yield ambiguous results,
we replicate the studies of Yazici47 and Busse et al.4 Our survey-based research
with a sample of 78 project managers is analysed by using structural equation modelling.
In accordance with Yazici,47 it is identified that project performance is associated
with high levels of project maturity, but for the internal and external business
performance no relationship exists.
Furthermore, it is evaluated how organisational culture affects perceived performance.
In line with Yazici47 and Busse et al,4 a significant relationship is proven for
clan culture and project performance. In addition, the study detects a positive
correlation between clan culture and business performance. Also, market culture
affects the perceived performance and has a combined influence with project maturity
on the project performance.
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A Qualitative Investigation on Key Drivers of Intrinsic
Motivation – The Case of Engineers in Germany
Busse Ronald and Laura Montseny Dominguez
Page No: 31-51
Since the war for talents‘ has been coined, practicing
managers as well as the scientific community have experienced and investigated the
limitations of extrinsic rewards. We therefore shift the spotlight of attention
towards a lesser observed field of interest: intrinsic motivation. Focusing justifiably
on engineers in German enterprises, we conduct 12 in-depth interviews and analyse
our primary data through the lens of qualitative content analysis.
We find that task characteristics, the quality of leader-led relation, autonomy
and the social climate among colleagues account for most significant impact on intrinsic
motivation. We develop some recommendations for action, admit limitations and look
into promising future research opporrtunities.
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