[AISWorld] IJTHI abstract 6(3)

[Anabela Mesquita]

The contents of the latest issue of: 

 

International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI)

Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association

Volume 6, Issue 3, July-September 2010

Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically

ISSN: 1548-3908 EISSN: 1548-3916

Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA

www.igi-global.com/ijthi

 

Editor-in-Chief: Anabela Mesquita (Ed.) (ISCAP/IPP, Portugal)

 

GUEST EDITORIAL PREFACE

 

The Intersection of IT and Workforce Management: A Maturing Research Field

 

Tanya Bondarouk, University of Twente, the Netherlands

Huub Ruël, University of Twente, the Netherlands

 

To read the guest editorial preface, please consult this issue of IJTHI in
your library.

http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=45125 

 

PAPER ONE

 

Sustainable e-Recruiting Portals: How to Motivate Applicants to Stay
Connected throughout their Careers?

 

Elfi Furtmüller (University of Twente, the Netherlands) 
Celeste Wilderom (University of Twente, the Netherlands) 
Rolf van Dick (University of Frankfurt, Germany)

 

Since most e-recruiting portals suffer from outdated applicant profiles and
receive little user return as soon as applicants have found a new job, in
this study, the authors explore how to motivate applicants to keep their
profiles up-to-date and stay connected with one specific recruiting portal
throughout their careers. The authors interviewed applicants, system
analysts and programmers of an Austrian e-recruiting portal. Narratives
showing striking differences between these three stakeholders’
interpretation of system requirements for long-term usage are discussed. The
identified requirements point to niche recruiting: integrating social
network and community features for specified user segments sharing a similar
social identity and fostering pre-existing offline ties among users for
career purposes. Implications are sketched for more sustainable e-recruiting
research, design and development. 

 

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=45170 

 

PAPER TWO

 

Theorizing HR Intranets: Contextual, Strategic and Configurative
Explanations

 

Véronique Guilloux (Université Paris Xii, France) 
Florence Laval (Cerege IAE, France) 
Michel Kalika (Strasbourg Université Robert Schuman, France)

Elina Eriksson, Uppsala University, Sweden

Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos, Uppsala University, Sweden

 

This paper presents the results of a longitudinal exploratory survey based
on a sample of French firms. Different contexts of Intranet, as well as
introduction, development stages, performance and Intranet content are
presented. Three approaches are in existence: corporate Intranet,
specialized Intranet and HR Intranet. These can be linked to different
stages of development: communication, functional support, and knowledge
management. The HR Function will be successful if it integrates Intranet in
its management process, if the players are aware of the stakes and they
behave as “real change agents”. Research shows the importance of strategic
alignment between human resource management (HRM) and Intranet as well as
the relevance of technological infusion, therefore, this paper’s result in
showing a configurative approach that allows the integration of more
variables and in turn leads to a systemic model contains great significance.


 

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=45171 

 

PAPER THREE

 

Acceptance and Appropriation of Videoconferencing for E-training: An
Empirical Investigation

 

Bernard Fallery (Montpellier 2 University, France) 
Roxana Taddei (Montpellier 2 University, France) 
Sylvie Gerbaix (Montpellier 2 University, France)

 

The purpose of this paper is to explore the acceptance and the appropriation
of videoconferencing-mediated training during real training situations in a
French company. The authors compare the acceptance and appropriation by 60
employees of two videoconferencing-mediated training systems: the virtual
class (desktop videoconferencing) and the remote class (where learners are
gathered together in the same room while the trainer is located at
distance). In considering the acceptance of these videoconferencing-mediated
training systems, a link was confirmed between perceived usefulness and the
intention to use, but no relationship was established between the levels of
acceptance and the required effort. The intention to use videoconferencing
was associated with the expected benefits and not with the expected effort.
Regarding appropriation, learners did not report a perception of
technological distance. Moreover, this paper shows that learners and the
trainer preferred the virtual class rather than the more classical remote
class. The authors’ findings contradict the media richness theory, according
to which the remote class, which is the “richer” medium in their research,
should have been preferred. 

 

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=45172 

 

PAPER FOUR

 

E-HRM’s Impact on an Environmental Scanning Process: How Can Technology
Support the Selection of Information?

 

Manel Guechtouli (Université Paul Cézanne, France)

 

This paper examines HR Management issues in Environmental Scanning (ES)
process. Although literature claims that selecting information in this kind
of processes is central, the authors are using the concept of “intelligent
filters” (Simon,1983) to understand how human attention can be managed for
selecting strategic information in a complex environment. The author
examines HR executives and the way they deal with issues related to ES and
focuses on an empirical study in a big technological firm, where the use of
an internal reporting and communication system (the weekly) was studied.
This author finds that this particular system can be considered as an
“intelligent filter”, requiring both human and technological resources.
Finally, suggestions that the system is used by HR executives in order to
organize communication and coordination in an ES process but also to
increase the participation and involvement of all employees in such a
process are made.

 

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=45173 

 

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For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the
International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI) in your
institution's library.  This journal is also included in the IGI Global
aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database: <www.infosci-journals.com>.

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Mission of IJTHI:

 

The International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI)
provides a platform for leading research that addresses issues of human and
technology interaction. The research that the journal intends to publish
should therefore be interdisciplinary and include aspects from a wide
variety of disciplines. These disciplines range from more technical ones
such as computer science, engineering, or information systems to
non-technical descriptions of technology and human interaction from the
point of view of sociology or philosophy. Apart from aiming to be
interdisciplinary the journal will also aspire to provide a publication
outlet for research questions and approaches that are novel and may find it
difficult to be published in established journals following a rigid and
exclusive structure. It is open to all research paradigms, be they empirical
or conceptual, but requires that they be accessible and reflected. We also
encourage the submission of high quality syntheses across research in
different specialties that are interesting and comprehensible to all members
of the IS community and related disciplines.

 

Coverage of IJTHI:

 

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

 

Anthropological consequences of technology use 

Ethical aspects of particular technologies (e.g. e-teaching, ERP, etc.) 

Experiential learning though the use of technology in organizations 

HCI design for trust development 

Influence of gender on the adoption and use of technology 

Interaction and conversion between technologies and their impact on society 

Intersection of humanities and sciences and its impact on technology use 

Normative questions of the development and use of technology 

Perceptions and conceptualizations of technology 

Phenomenology of e-government 

Philosophy of technology 

Questions of computer or information ethics 

Relationship of theory and practice with regards to technology 

Responsibility of artificial agents 

Shaping of e-commerce through law and culture 

Social impact of specific technologies (e.g. biometrics, SCM, PGP, etc.) 

Social shaping of technology and human interaction research 

Technological risks and their human basis 

Technology assessment of software / hardware development 

Value of intellectual capital in knowledge management

 

and all other related issues related to the interaction of technology and
humans, either individually or socially.

 

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission
guidelines at www.igi-global.com/ijthi.  

 

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to: 

Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Anabela Mesquita at sarmento at iscap.ipp.pt
<mailto:editor at ijthi.net>  

 

 

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