In praise of context

Johns, Gary

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“…This lack of research is unfortunate, as scholars over the past 25 years have increasingly highlighted the important part work context plays in shaping organizational behavior and have lamented the dearth of empirical research on context (Johns, 2001;Mowday & Sutton, 1993;Schneider, 1983). For example, Cappelli and Sherer (1991) pointed out that when studying organizational behavior "it is impossible to explore [behavioral] uniqueness without an explicit consideration of context" (p. 97).…”

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The milieu of managerial work: An integrative framework linking work context to role requirements.

Dierdorff

Rubin

Morgeson

2009

Journal of Applied Psychology

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Theoretical and empirical efforts focusing on the interplay between work context and managerial role requirements have been conspicuously absent in the scholarly literature. This paucity exists despite over 60 years of research concerning the requirements of managerial work and with the rather universal recognition that work context meaningfully shapes organizational behavior. The authors developed a theoretical model linking different types of role requirements to different forms of work context. They empirically tested this framework with a nationally representative sample of 8,633 incumbents spanning 52 managerial occupations. Findings from hierarchical linear modeling analyses demonstrated that discrete forms of context (task, social, and physical) exert significant and predictable effects on managerial role requirements.

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The milieu of managerial work: An integrative framework linking work context to role requirements.

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Morgeson

2009

Journal of Applied Psychology

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“…While previous research has "….underappreciated [or] controlled away" context, a new wave of work has sought to highlight the role of social context within what have previously been seen as solely economic activities (Welter, 2011 p. 173-174). Context surrounds economic phenomenon, providing a source of variation and difference that cannot necessarily be detected through quantitative means (Johns, 2001). …”

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Bourdieuian approaches to the geography of entrepreneurial cultures

Spigel

2013

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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“…We define context as situational factors exhibiting cross-level effects in which a stimulus or phenomenon at one level of analysis has an impact at another level (Johns, 2001). Situational factors can include both phenomena and temporal conditions that surround the focal constructs of interest.…”

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“…Table 1 summarizes the various types of cross-level contextual effects and provides an example of each from the extant literature. Note that while most of the time contextual effects are conceptualized as flowing from the top down, the direction can also flow in the opposite direction, because "individuals can sometimes provide contextual influence for organizations" (Johns, 2001, p. 32). Effects of individual process interventions on group decision quality (Hollenbeck et al, 1998) Effects of collective-level HCI phenomena on individuals within groups (or within dyads) Effects of group size on group member satisfaction with EMS use (Dennis et al, 1990b) …”

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A Call for Engaging Context in HCI/MIS Research with Examples from the Area of Technology Interruptions

Addas¹

2010

THCI

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This paper contributes to the discussion on future directions of Human-Computer Interaction in Information Systems (HCI/MIS) research by explicating the role of task-and social context. We show that context has not been sufficiently engaged, and argue why it is important to pay more attention to it in theory and design of future HCI/MIS research. Drawing on examples from the core HCI area of technology interruptions, we formulate a set of general research questions and guidelines, which allow us to represent the context of multiple users in continuous collaboration with multiple tools while working on tasks that are intertwined within business processes. These guidelines will generate new insights for HCI/MIS research and allow us to develop research that captures the changing nature of the computing environment. INTRODUCTIONThis research commentary contributes to the discussion on future directions of Human-Computer Interaction research in Information Systems (HCI/MIS), which was spawned by the keynote panel discussion at the 2009 SIG HCI workshop. Specifically, this paper explicates the concepts of task context and social context as critical factors to be considered in both HCI/MIS theory development and design, and develops a set of guidelines that can be used to frame a research agenda. To achieve this objective, the paper first briefly discusses the state of HCI/MIS research. Then, to make the analysis more concrete, it draws upon the core HCI area of technology-based work interruptions (hereafter referred to as technology interruptions) to show how such research can gain from explicating the complex context, in which multiple individuals are simultaneously interacting with multiple technologies to perform a set of intertwined tasks. With help from this analysis, the paper concludes with a set of research questions and guidelines for future HCI/MIS research. A Call for Engaging Context in HCI/MIS Research with Examples from the Area of Technology Interruptions Research Commentary THE NEED FOR CONTEXT IN HCI/MIS RESEARCH What is HCI/MIS research?HCI research is multidisciplinary by nature, incorporating a vast number of efforts from fields such as computer science, psychology, sociology, anthropology, ergonomics, and engineering, among others. In this paper, we restrict our focus on HCI research from an IS perspective (HCI/MIS), which is mostly published in IS journals, IS conference proceedings, and specialized HCI journals. We adopt Zhang and Li's definition of HCI/MIS research as research that is "concerned with the ways humans interact with information, technologies, and tasks, especially in business, managerial, organizational, and cultural contexts" (Zhang and Li, 2005, p. 228). This definition distinguishes HCI/MIS research from other HCI research areas by virtue of its focus on business tasks, and particularly their meaningfulness from an organizational perspective (Galletta et al., 2003, Zhang et al., 2002. As Zhang and Galletta stated, "The MIS researcher's perspective affords special importance t...

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In praise of context

Cited by 325 publications

References 52 publications

The milieu of managerial work: An integrative framework linking work context to role requirements.

The milieu of managerial work: An integrative framework linking work context to role requirements.

Bourdieuian approaches to the geography of entrepreneurial cultures

A Call for Engaging Context in HCI/MIS Research with Examples from the Area of Technology Interruptions

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