Expectation from Technology and Career Satisfaction: A study among IT Professionals in India

Tomer, Gunjan; Mishra, Sushanta Kumar

doi:10.3127/ajis.v23i0.1761

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“…Extrinsic elements include organisational learning culture, performance goal, supervisors support and work identity (Joo & Ready, 2012; McKevitt et al, 2017). In the Indian IT workforce, career satisfaction is linked to fulfilling vocational goals (Nanda & Khanna, 2010), work-life integration (Shah, 2014) and perceived career-related technological features (Tomer & Mishra, 2019). However career satisfaction, a principal construct for defining the Indian IT workforce’s career success (Shah, 2014), remains understudied.…”

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Career Satisfaction in Maximising Professionals of Indian IT Industry: Mediating Roles of Contrasting Responses Based on Counterfactual Reasoning

Santra

Giri

2022

South Asian Journal of Human Resources Management

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This study conceptualises career maximisation and its consequences in the Indian Information Technology (IT) workforce, a globally significant non-Western talent pool. It examined how maximising tendency in career decision-making (MT-CD) mediated career satisfaction through two contrasting responses based on counterfactual reasoning―career regret (dysfunctional) and career adaptability (functional). The study comprised of two parts. In Study 1, scales for MT-CD and career regret were developed and initially validated using a 172 respondents’ dataset. In Study 2, data from 434 respondents were analysed for psychometric evaluation and further validation of scales along with determining hypothesised relationships. Two dimensions of MT-CD were identified―‘state of internal career ambiguity’ and ‘striving for career excellence’. Both attributes produced career regret (an aggregated measure of ‘corporate regrets’, ‘career choice regrets’ and ‘developmental regrets’ dimensions), decreasing career satisfaction. Only ‘striving for career excellence’ led to career adaptability, which subsequently increased career satisfaction. Altogether, career regret competed with career adaptability, supressing its positive indirect effect on maximising ITPs’ career satisfaction. This study expands the current empirical research on career maximisation into non-Western contexts, adding unique knowledge to the Indian IT workforce’s vocational literature.

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Career Satisfaction in Maximising Professionals of Indian IT Industry: Mediating Roles of Contrasting Responses Based on Counterfactual Reasoning

Santra

Giri

2022

South Asian Journal of Human Resources Management

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“…Surprisingly, the literature exploring career-related outcomes of a given technology and its impact on IT professionals' behavior is limited. Individuals' career preferences play a significant role in deciding their attitude toward their given technology (Tomer and Mishra, 2019). For instance, one individual can work in a highly complex technology and derive professional satisfaction from the challenge presented.…”

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Impact of individual perceptions of technology on turnover intention among IT professionals

Tomer

Sharma²

2022

JSIT

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the dimensions of technology on which information technology (IT) professionals assess and evaluate a given technology. The authors believe that these dimensions influence their career outcomes and hold the potential to explain the intent to leave among IT professionals. Design/methodology/approach This study hypothesizes that the likelihood of a given technology being assessed favorably depends on various technology features perceived by IT professionals. These features influence their career prospects, thus influencing work outcomes like turnover intention. This study uses a survey-based quantitative technique to test the proposed research model. Data has been recorded from 312 IT professionals working in different service-based IT firms. Findings The findings of this study indicate that the technology IT professionals work with impacts their work and career-related outcomes. IT professionals evaluate and understand technology to assess the favorability of these technologies. Individual preferences to work with a specific technology are driven by that technology's possible influence on career outcomes such as the availability of job opportunities. Research limitations/implications This study proposes that assigned technology influences career outcomes among IT professionals and has a potential to explain their turnover intentions. The authors have found that technologies fulfilling their career expectations, such as better work opportunities and job security, might be favorable for IT professionals. Unmet expectations with the assigned technology affect the turnover intention among IT professionals. Though this study examines turnover intention as an outcome, future studies can explore the attributes of technology relevant to IT professionals and their impact on other significant consequences such as work exhaustion and job satisfaction. Practical implications With a growing attrition rate and significant demand for skilled IT professionals, the importance of studying their behavior has become essential for both academia and the industry. Despite ample research, there is still a gap between theory and practice. This study on IT professionals proposes that understanding technology and how it is perceived, understood and evaluated by IT professionals might provide significant insights into their work behavior. Originality/value This study contributes to the literature by describing the unexplored phenomenon of the impact of technology assignment on IT professionals' work outcomes. This study is valuable in exploring a new dimension to explain turnover intention.

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Current and Future Threats of the Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence by Terrorists: Psychological Aspects

Bazarkina

2023

The Palgrave Handbook of Malicious Use of AI and Psychological Security

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Expectation from Technology and Career Satisfaction: A study among IT Professionals in India

Cited by 5 publications

References 55 publications

Career Satisfaction in Maximising Professionals of Indian IT Industry: Mediating Roles of Contrasting Responses Based on Counterfactual Reasoning

Career Satisfaction in Maximising Professionals of Indian IT Industry: Mediating Roles of Contrasting Responses Based on Counterfactual Reasoning

Impact of individual perceptions of technology on turnover intention among IT professionals

Current and Future Threats of the Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence by Terrorists: Psychological Aspects

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