CMIS 520 Managing Technology

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CMIS 520Managing Technology

• Jo Ellen Moore, Ph.D.

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Personality Characteristics of IS/IT
Professionals

• Assessed personality characteristics of 4 groups
  of IS/IT professionals
• IS Managers
• Systems Analysts
• Technical Programmers
• Application Programmers

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Personality Characteristics of IS/IT Professionals

• Findings
• IS Managers more inclined to experiment with
  problem solutions than Tech Programmers and
  Systems Analysts.
• Tech Programmers and Systems Analysts more
  conservative and less free-thinking.

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Personality Characteristics of IS/IT Professionals

• Findings (continued)
• IS Managers more imaginative and absorbed in
  ideas than Tech Programmers and Systems Analysts.
• Tech Programmers and Systems Analysts very
  practical and careful, avoiding anything
  far-fetched.

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Personality Characteristics of IS/IT Professionals

• Findings (continued)
• Application Programmers were more like the IS
  Managers -- tended to be more imaginative and
  more likely to experiment with problem solutions.

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Personality Characteristics of IS/IT Professionals

• Implications???

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Summary Profile ofIS/IT Professional

• High in Growth Need Strength
• Cougar Zawicki (1980)
• High in Need for Achievement
• Woodruff (1980)
• High in intellectual adaptability and
  insightfulness (16PF B)
• Moore (1991)

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Summary Profile ofIS/IT Professional

• Based on those studies --
• IS/IT professional generally tends to be a highly
  capable individual who is willing to work hard to
  meet challenging goals.