The current research investigated occupational stress among information technology (IT) professionals aiming to measure the level of occupational stress and studying the relationship between occupational stress level of IT professionals and a) gender, b) age, c) work experience and d) stress management courses. The research was conducted among 236 IT professionals. The results suggest that stress reduction programs and strategies are inevitable due to high occupational stress levels. The relationship between stress level and gender, work experience, and stress management courses were approved through path analysis. Finally, implications of the study are discussed in terms of discussion and further research.
In today's highly developed academic society, universities have recognized the importance of having websites to be able to have right academic communications. On the other hand, students satisfaction of university websites shows to some extend university web success. The aim of current study is to propose universities website satisfaction model. The survey research was conducted among 270 university students.Results of the empirical analysis confirmed that the trust of the users increase when they perceive that the system is usable. Also greater innovation was found to have a positive influence on users' trust and satisfaction. Finally, students' trust has a positive influence on their satisfaction.
To date, substantial research studies have been conducted in the field of ethical decision making in many disciplines. However, ethical efforts in the context of information technology have been limited. In this research, a focus has been put on modeling ethical decision making in cyberspace with emphasis on business intelligence scenarios. The model is comprised of six exogenous and two endogenous constructs, among them seven were delicately selected from valid and empirically tested ethical models and the eighth one is developed by the authors. After pre-testing the model by experts, reliability, convergent and discriminant validities were approved. Data were collected from 188 IT personnel in the banking industry of Iran. Results revealed that the perceived importance of an IT ethical issue, ethical judgment, ethical obligation, perceived possibility of disclosure, ego strength, and locus of control directly impact ethical intention. However, no impact from law on ethical obligation and codes of ethics on ethical intention was observed. As shown, a higher possibility on acting unethically occurs when the person feels confident that his/her actions will go unnoticed.
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