Declining MIS Enrollment: The Death Of The MIS Degree?

Saunders, Gary; Lockridge, T. Maurice

doi:10.19030/cier.v4i1.978

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“…Salary was rated highly for all business majors (5.25 of 7.0), and was an important contributor to positive attitudes for non-MIS majors. Recent data suggest that MIS salaries are quite competitive in comparison to other business majors (Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-2011, and this fact should be stressed. The other characteristic was workload of the major.…”

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“…While this paper deals with MIS in the United States, and is focused as such, there are indications that this is also a global phenomenon (Zhang, 2007). The trend continues as we enter the second decade of the 21 st century, and it remains a concern for MIS professionals (Saunders & Lockridge, 2011;Tabatabaei & Tehrani, 2010). The current economic downturn has likely exacerbated the already alarming trend by causing the demand for all business majors to decline.…”

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Attitudes and Influences toward Choosing a Business Major: The Case of Information Systems

2011

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Executive SummaryDeclining enrollment in MIS Departments in Colleges of Business has been the norm for many if not most universities since the dot.com bust of 2000. This has serious repercussions for the departments involved, students, and the companies that hire MIS graduates. In order to reverse this trend, an understanding of the important factors which influence students to choose a major is critical. Of crucial importance for MIS Departments is understanding the competition: the majors students choose instead of MIS. This study examines the influences of what is probably an MIS Department's greatest competitor: other majors within the College of Business. What factors and influences propel students to major in a business discipline other than MIS? Using the Theory of Reasoned Action as a framework, this study examines the similarities and differences between two groups of business majors: MIS majors and non-MIS majors. Using a survey of 413 undergraduate business majors, this study examines the influences which shape attitudes toward choice of major and a student's intention to work in his or her major field. Using structured equation modeling, the findings suggest some common influences across all majors (interest in the field, job availability, and job security), and many differences between the two groups (aptitude, social and personal image, workload of major, and influence of family, friends, other students, and professors). These similarities and differences suggest several ways to approach undecided students with the hope of gaining additional MIS majors. This also applies to students who may consider switching majors. The results of the study provide faculty with the information needed to better counsel and advise students, enhancing a fit between student and career, while simultaneously increasing technology majors.

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“…Saunders and Lockridge (2011) The discipline of Management Information Systems developed in the 1950s to meet the demands created by two events:…”

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“…This was first pointed out by Cohen (1999) and later picked up by others (Alter, 2003;Benbasat & Zmud 2003;Boland, Culnan, Gurbaxani, Krcmar, Robey, Iacono, & Orlikowski et al 2002cited in Alter, 2003Gill & Bhattacherjee, 2009;Karahanna, Davis, Mukhopadhyay, Watson, & Weber, 2003;Orlikowski & Iacono, 2001;Weber, 2006). The discipline currently is producing research that has limited real world application (Saunders & Lockridge, 2011). We predict that if it continues to fail to adapt, it too will go extinct.…”

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Disciplinary Evolution and the Rise of the Transdiscipline

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2014

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This paper challenges readers to reflect on academic disciplines in a new way, through the lens of the theory of evolution. Indeed, how disciplines came into being has been largely left unexplored. This paper shows how the concepts of evolution can be productively applied to describe the development, creation, and diminishment of disciplines. These concepts include natural selection, speciation, parallel evolution, extinction, and heterosis, among others. The paper concludes that these forces lead to a prediction that a new form of organization, the transdiscipline, is evolving to become perhaps predominant.

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“…More recent projections show the computer systems and related services industry to grow by nearly 4 % each year to the year 2020, placing it among one of the fastest growing industries (Henderson 2012). With such projections, the demand for qualified candidates will increase, but at the same time, student enrollment in ITrelated programs has dropped (Panko 2008;Saunders and Lockridge 2011), which further exasperates the need to retain employees.…”

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The information technology workforce: A review and assessment of voluntary turnover research

2013

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International audienceDespite the numerous studies on the topic of IT employee turnover and recommendations to organizations on how to retain their employees, the general turnover trend of IT professionals remains high. The need for further research on IT turnover has been called for by many, but much of the literature continues to conduct similar studies using the same constructs, and these studies find similar results. Now is the time to turn our research attention to directions that have been unexplored or less explored. Newer research directions for the IT turnover literature will provide insights for refining and easing the impact of turnover on organizations. As we embark on new research frontiers in the IT turnover phenomenon, a comprehensive review and assessment of the state of the literature may facilitate future research in building off of existing knowledge. This paper reviews and assesses the existing literature on the voluntary turnover of IT employees, identifies the areas where research has matured, and raises directions for future research that are less chartered

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Declining MIS Enrollment: The Death Of The MIS Degree?

Cited by 8 publications

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Attitudes and Influences toward Choosing a Business Major: The Case of Information Systems

Attitudes and Influences toward Choosing a Business Major: The Case of Information Systems

Disciplinary Evolution and the Rise of the Transdiscipline

The information technology workforce: A review and assessment of voluntary turnover research

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