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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2012.13.8.3460

What Factors Affect on the Job Involvement of S/W Development Workers in the Small and Medium IT Enterprises  

Kang, Juong-Hyun (Dept. of MIS, Graduate School, Gyeongsang National University)
Jeong, Dae-Yul (Dept. of MIS, College of Business, Gyeongsang National University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.13, no.8, 2012 , pp. 3460-3469 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to find the factors that affect on the job involvement of S/W developer in the small and medium IT companies. We suggested structural model with two mediating variables, role conflicts and attitude of workers. The model considered job competency(job knowledge, technological competences, and communication skill) as independent variables which affect on the mediating variables directly and final dependent variable indirectly. The hypotheses tests showed that the job knowledge affected negatively on the role conflicts as the hypothesis assumed, but technological competences affected positively(reserve direction) on the role conflicts. This finding means that the more he/she has good job skill and technologies, the more does he required to do many things in the organization. The results of path analysis showed that attitude of workers mediated between the role conflicts and job involvement significantly. We concluded that although the workers are suffered from the role conflicts, it could be mitigated by their job knowledge and the favorite attitude toward their job, and finally they could more involve in their job.
Keywords
Job Involvement; Attitude; Role Conflict; Job Competency; S/W Developer; IT Personnel Management;
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