CPR 2008: Charlottesville, VA, USA

Curriculum

• Damien Joseph:
  Increasing the number of entrants into the IT profession: the role of experiential training. 2-4
  
• Tracy L. Lewis, Wanda J. Smith, France Belanger, K. Vernard Harrington:
  Determining students' intent to stay in it programs: an empirical model. 5-11
  

Software

• Jack Downey:
  An artifact-centric method for creating software job descriptions. 12-21
  
• Yan Li, Chuan-Hoo Tan, Hock-Hai Teo:
  Firm-specificity and organizational learning-related scale on investment in internal human capital for open source software adoption. 22-29
  
• Tracy Hall, Sarah Beecham, June M. Verner, David Wilson:
  The impact of staff turnover on software projects: the importance of understanding what makes software practitioners tick. 30-39
  

Panel on IT majors recruitment

• Indira R. Guzman, Mike Gallivan, Joanne McGrath Cohoon, Jeffrey M. Stanton, Amy Bell, Jeria L. Quesenberry, Elizabeth G. Creamer:
  What are we doing to improve recruitment and retention in information technology majors? 40-42
  

Career choices

• Donna M. Grant, Fay Cobb Payton:
  Career staging for girls moving toward (away) from computing careers. 43-49
  
• Deborah J. Ballou, Brian R. Huguenard:
  Personal and situational predictors of IS professionals' career choice satisfaction. 50-57
  

Diversity

• Eileen M. Trauth, Jeria L. Quesenberry, Haiyan Huang, Stephen McKnight:
  Linking economic development and workforce diversity through action research. 58-65
  
• Monica P. Adya:
  Work alienation among IT workers: a cross-cultural gender comparison. 66-69
  

Business environment

• Kyootai Lee, Kailash Joshi, Youngkyun Kim:
  Person-job fit as a moderator of the relationship between emotional intelligence and job performance. 70-75
  
• John R. Landry:
  Can computing professionals be the unintentional architects of evil information systems? 76-78
  
• Jung-Yu Lai, Chorng-Shyong Ong, Chun-Chieh Yang, Chao-Te Wang:
  Assessing and managing employee readiness for embracing e-business. 79-87
  

IT workforce preparation

• Chuan-Hoo Tan, Wee-Kek Tan, Hock-Hai Teo:
  Training students to be agile information systems developers: a pedagogical approach. 88-96
  
• Mary Sumner, Susan E. Yager:
  An investigation of preparedness and importance of mis competencies: research in progress. 97-111
  

Panel on high school camps

• Robert G. Brookshire, Karen Kemp, Daphyne M. Thomas, Thomas W. Dillon:
  High school computer camps: an "early in the pipeline" step to meet the demand for diverse information technology workers. 101
  

Inclusive learning

• Debbie Beard, Dana Schwieger, Ken Surendran:
  Preparing the millennial generation for the work place: how can academia help? 102-105
  
• Brenda L. Berkelaar, Lorraine G. Kisselburgh, Patrice M. Buzzanell:
  Locating and disseminating effective messages: enhancing gender representation in computing majors and careers. 106-108
  
• Conrad Shayo:
  The role of technology and authentic task contexts in promoting inclusive learning for disabled and non-disabled college students. 109-111
  

IT education

• Ed Van Sickle:
  Refilling the it pipleline and using storage technologies as a specialization. 112-118
  
• Brian H. Cameron:
  Enterprise systems education: new directions & challenges for the future. 119-126
  

IT careers

• Mary Sumner:
  An investigation of work family conflict among IT professionals. 127-133
  
• Mari W. Buche:
  Influence of gender on IT professional work identity: outcomes from a PLS study. 134-140
  

Managing your job

• Jung-Yu Lai, Chun-Yi Chou:
  A strategic approach of internal service quality for improving employees' job satisfaction in e-business. 141-150
  
• Kyootai Lee, Kailash Joshi, Youngkyun Kim, JooYeoun Lee:
  A proposed investigation of the is employee job context. 151-156
  

Doctoral consortium

• Carole C. Angolano:
  Information technology security task-technology fit based on the technology-to-performance chain theory. 157-160
  
• Andrea Hester:
  Innovating with organizational wikis: factors facilitating adoption and diffusion of an effective collaborative knowledge management system. 161-163
  
• Suwan Juntiwasarakij:
  The impact of it outsourcing practice on employment culture: an it professional's perspective. 164-167
  
• Gaëtan Mourmant:
  Adapting and extending the unfolding model of voluntary job turnover to IS entrepreneurs'. 168-170
  
• Wei-Cheng Shen:
  Does knowledge work pay?: an archival analysis of knowledge management activities. 171-174
  

Keynote address

• Thomas Dillon:
  Keynote speaker: recruiting IT specialists for information risk management (IRM) and the external audit. 1