Traditional Job-Related Factors and Career Salience in IT-Based Workplace

Aminu Ahmad and Hartini Ahmad
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Aminu Ahmad: Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Nigeria
Hartini Ahmad: Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia

International Journal of Technology Diffusion (IJTD), 2010, vol. 1, issue 3, 56-63

Abstract: Despite growing academic and practical concerns about IT-transformed workplaces, little research empirically investigates these concerns. This paper adopts a unique approach to address these concerns by evaluating the appropriateness of traditional drivers of career salience in high IT working environments. Building on established measures of role stress, participation in decision making, job involvement and career salience, questionnaires were distributed to staff working in high IT organizations in Nigeria. Multiple regressions were run from a valid response of 223, resulting in the three traditional drivers accounting for 25% of the variance in career salience. Similarly, standardized ß coefficients indicate on job involvement (0.46) makes unique significant contribution to career salience. This finding is in line with sociotechnical theory—that changes in technical sub-system affect the social sub-system and vice versa. The finding also provides indirect exploratory support for the decreasing importance of non-IT factors in the evolving digital workplace. Other implications, limitations and direction for future research are highlighted.

Date: 2010
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