Innovative Ways to Connect Information Systems Programs to the Business Community

Watson, Hugh J.; Huber, Mark W.

doi:10.17705/1cais.00311

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“…To help students to gain on-the-job experience and enhance their job placement prospects, MIS programs may wish to be proactive in supporting student internships. For example, MIS programs may try to create more MIS internship opportunities by developing closer relationships with the business community using the methods described by Watson and Huber [2000]. They may also consider creating an internship office or coordinator (e.g., a MIS faculty member with a course release) and the addition of an academic requirement for a MIS internship or equivalent experience.…”

Section: Implications For Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Determinants of Graduating MIS Students Starting Salary in Boom and Bust Job Markets

Sandvig¹,

Tyran²,

Ross³

2005

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This study investigates the influence of internship experience, grade-point average (GPA), and job market on the starting salaries of management information systems (MIS) graduates. The seven-year period of the study includes the strong job market of the Internet boom, as well as the weak job market following the Internet bust. The regression results indicate that several factors are significantly related to starting salary including internship experience, GPA, job market, and size of employer. Internship experience was found to play a particularly strong role in predicting MIS starting salaries. A significant interaction effect indicates that the positive effect of internship experience is stronger during a weak job market. Graduates with internship experience also found employment more quickly. The study is based upon academic and placement data collected from 126 graduates from an AACSB accredited MIS program at Western Washington University during the years 1997-2003.

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Section: Implications For Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Determinants of Graduating MIS Students Starting Salary in Boom and Bust Job Markets

Sandvig¹,

Tyran²,

Ross³

2005

CAIS

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“…These conflicts have attracted little interest from the moral viewpoint in IS. As moral conflicts in this study emerged as critical, it is assumed that other collaboration forms such as training programmes, research-centre activities and industry advisory boards [Watson and Huber 2000] may harbour them. Therefore, future studies should investigate the moral side of different forms of industry-academia relations.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The benefits of project courses are evident in that students acquire communications skills [Pigford 1992;Fritz 1987], and teambuilding and interpersonal skills [Roberts 2000;Ross and Ruhleder 1993], for example. In cases in which student projects are implemented for real-life clients [Green 2003;Watson and Huber 2000;Cotterell and Hughes 1995;Tourunen 1992;Brown et al 1989] rather than being purely hypothetical, students gain valuable experience for the start of their careers. Indeed, collaborative student projects are a common form of industry-academia collaboration in the IT field [Ziegler 1981;Bergeron 1996].…”

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confidence: 99%

Moral Conflicts in Teaching Project Work: A Job Burdened by Role Strains

Vartiainen

2007

CAIS

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This case study concerns moral conflicts identified by instructors on a project course in information systems education. Students on the course in question are expected to acquire project-work skills through implementing a project task for a real-life client. Data about moral conflicts was gathered by means of participant observation and interviews, and a phenomenographical approach was taken in the analysis. Six types of moral conflicts were identified, reflecting two aspects of the phenomenon. The first relates to conflicts involving outside parties and task-related and human issues and the second to deliberation about performing morally wrong acts or upholding relations. The core problem area in the instructor's work became visible in the form of inherent role strains and the need to react to conflicting expectations from all parties. The underlying source of the strains was the clash between the objectives of the clients and the learning aspect promoted by the university. This and three other types of strain made the instructor's work mentally demanding and morally challenging. Recommendations for dealing with these moral conflicts and role strains are given. Finally, the study is evaluated against the principles laid down for interpretive research.

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“…Some business schools turn to the business community to support specific computing needs (Watson and Huber, 2000). For example, the University of pointed out, however, that the real costs are in sending faculty to training programs so that they can learn and teach the software and hiring support personnel who can maintain the software.…”

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Business School Deans Assess the Current State of the IS Academic Field

Watson¹,

Sousa²,

Junglas³

2000

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Fourteen deans of business schools were interviewed to obtain their assessment of the current state of the IS field in terms of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing the discipline. Their observations are organized into nine categories: (1) interaction with the business community, (2) demand for IS courses, (3) identity of the IS field, (4) cross disciplinary nature of the field, (5) research rigor versus relevance, (6) competitors to IS, (7) cost of information technology, (8) shortage of IS faculty, and (9) shortage of IS leaders. These findings are compared with those from an earlier study with leaders in the IS academic field. The differences in perspectives have implications and lead to doable recommendations for the field: (1) work on branding IS, (2) strive for more consistency in IS courses across universities, (3) help provide hardware and software resources, and (4) create an electronic journal that publishes technical research.

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Innovative Ways to Connect Information Systems Programs to the Business Community

Cited by 10 publications

References 12 publications

Determinants of Graduating MIS Students Starting Salary in Boom and Bust Job Markets

Determinants of Graduating MIS Students Starting Salary in Boom and Bust Job Markets

Moral Conflicts in Teaching Project Work: A Job Burdened by Role Strains

Business School Deans Assess the Current State of the IS Academic Field

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