Motivation in software engineering industrial practice: A cross-case analysis of two software organisations

França, A. César C.; Silva, Fábio Q. B. da; Felix, Adelnei de Lima Cavalcanti; Carneiro, David E. S.

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2013.06.006

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“…Thus, the obtained results have proven the proposed hypothesis. The important conclusion, based on the results, supplementing the findings by França, Silva, Felix & Carneiro (2014) is that the development the of students' positive intrinsic motivation for training and future professional activity is facilitated by the actualisation of professional goals, values and personal needs; individual and differentiated approaches; integrative training materials, which appeal to the students' experience; using such motives, as professional interest, creative educational activity, competitiveness, educational games, emotional impact and all-round support of any inner students' aspirations; teaching the self-motivation techniques.…”

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Developing Software Engineering Students’ Readiness for Professional Mobility Through Blended Learning

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Akmaldinova

Tereminko

2019

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The article aims to study the formation of the software engineering students' readiness for professional mobility in the educational and information environment of a technical university. The hypothesis of our research is the assumption that the formation of students' readiness for professional mobility depends on the following organisational and pedagogical conditions: 1) the development of students' positive intrinsic motivation for training and future professional activity using interactive methods and IT); 2) integration of the structure and content of foreign language with professional training by modelling professional activities through blended learning; 3) synergy of psychological and pedagogical process taking into account the components of the teacher's professional competence (a tutor, a moderator, a scientist, a designer, and a director). The pedagogical experiment was conducted at the National Aviation University and included three stages: preparatory, formative and final. In total, 158 students of I-V years of study majoring in software engineering took part in various stages of the experiment. 26 students made up an experimental group (EG), 24a control group (CG). The criteria and indicators for assessing the students' readiness for professional mobility and the methods of evaluation were determined. The results of the experiment have proven the proposed hypothesis. The indicators of the productive and creative levels of readiness by all the criteria considerably increased in the EG, while in the CG a slight positive dynamics can be seen. Promising directions for further research can be related to the development of an integrative ESP Moodle course for future software engineers.

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Developing Software Engineering Students’ Readiness for Professional Mobility Through Blended Learning

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Akmaldinova

Tereminko

2019

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“…In the beginning, we were interested in understanding how workplace factors affected the motivation of software engineers, and what the perceived outcomes of motivation were. In [51], we reported a meta-ethnographical synthesis [52] of two case studies. In that work, motivation and satisfaction were considered as a single construct as perceived by the study participants, which has been a common practice in previous research on motivation in the software engineering field (see Section 3).…”

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Motivation and Satisfaction of Software Engineers

França

Silva

Sharp

2020

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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Context: The proper management of people can help software organisations to achieve higher levels of success. However, the limited attention paid to the appropriate use of theories to underpin the research in this area leaves it unclear how to deal with human aspects of software engineers, such as motivation and satisfaction. Objectives: This article aims to expose what drives the motivation and satisfaction of software engineers at work. Methods: A multiple case study was conducted at four software organisations in Brazil. For 11 months, data was collected using semi-structured interviews, diary studies, and document analyses. Results: The Theory of Motivation and Satisfaction of Software Engineers (TMS-SE), presented in this article, combines elements from well established theories with new findings, and translates them into the software engineering context. Conclusion: The TMS-SE advances the understanding of people management in the software engineering field and presents a strong conceptual framework for future investigations in this area.

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“…More details on these case studies can be found elsewhere [4][5] [6]. Then we ran cross-case syntheses [7] using the meta-ethnography approach [37]. The large and complex models resulting from that effort led us to question whether the participants of the interviews referred to a single well-defined phenomenon, or offered opinions and experiences about several phenomena.…”

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“…The research results, however, are inconclusive, and allow us to develop only abstract models, such as the MOCC [3].In addition, a recent empirical study involving a series of case studies [4][5] [6] [7]in different types of software organizations, identified a large variety of factors that reportedly affected the work motivation of software engineers. This variety led us to question whether 'motivation' is simply a very complex phenomenon, or were our respondents attributing inconsistent meanings to the term 'motivation' or were we in fact collecting opinions and experiences about several phenomena, rather than a single one?…”

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Motivated software engineers are engaged and focused, while satisfied ones are happy

França

Sharp

Silva

2014

Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

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Context -Motivation and job satisfaction are not the same thing, and although business organization research recognized this a long time ago, in Software Engineering research, we have not. As a result, thirty years of research on motivation in software engineering has produced knowledge on what makes software engineers generally happier, but not about how to increase their motivation. Goal -In this article, we aim to identify visible signs of a software engineer who is motivated to work. Method -We describe a field study in which 62 practitioners in Brazil reported their view of "motivation" in the context of their practical work. Data was collected by means of audio-recorded semi-structured interviews, and a thematic analysis was applied to identify the most relevant descriptors of motivation. Results -Our data reveal that (1) motivated Software Engineers are engaged, focused, and collaborative; and (2) the term "motivation" is used as an umbrella term to cover several distinct organizational behaviours that are not necessarily related to the individual´s desire to work. Conclusions -Without a clear picture of the difference between these two concepts, work-based motivation programs may not be designed effectively to address either turnover or performance issues. Overall, this work indicates the need for a more effective conceptual system to investigate and encourage both job satisfaction and work motivation in software engineering research and practice.

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Motivation in software engineering industrial practice: A cross-case analysis of two software organisations

Cited by 38 publications

References 35 publications

Developing Software Engineering Students’ Readiness for Professional Mobility Through Blended Learning

Developing Software Engineering Students’ Readiness for Professional Mobility Through Blended Learning

Motivation and Satisfaction of Software Engineers

Motivated software engineers are engaged and focused, while satisfied ones are happy

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