[AISWorld] International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals

[Ricardo Colomo Palacios]

The contents of the latest issue of:



*International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology
Professionals (IJHCITP)*

Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association

Volume 3, Issue 4, October - December 2012

Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically

ISSN: 1947-3478 EISSN: 1947-3486

Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA

www.igi-global.com/ijhcitp



Editor-in-Chief: Ricardo Colomo-Palacios (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid,
Spain)

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*PAPER ONE*

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Reducing Information Asymmetry in Cloud Marketplaces



Vladimir Stantchev (SRH University Berlin, Berlin, Germany) and Gerrit Tamm
(SRH University Berlin, Berlin, Germany)



Cloud Computing is emerging as a predominant paradigm for obtaining and
providing computing functionality in the enterprise. Organizations that are
planning to use cloud computing offerings struggle with the question “How
do I choose the right offering?” Cloud offerings exhibit a variety of
pricing models and different levels of service and functionality. In this
article the authors define first Cloud Computing in the context of IT
Governance. Then they set criteria to compare different offerings at the
level of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). This is an important precondition
for the reduction of the verifiable information asymmetry and uncertainty
in the cloud market. Besides deficiencies on the supply side, regarding
configuration, display and communication of service bundles, the limited
knowledge of potential buyers is main reason for the modest adoption. The
authors apply strategies derived from information economics to reduce this
asymmetry by integrating information substitutes in the service marketplace
description, thereby transforming experience and credence qualities into
search qualities.



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http://www.igi-global.com/article/reducing-information-asymmetry-cloud-marketplaces/73709



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http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=73709&ptid=59592&t=reducing+information+asymmetry+in+cloud+marketplaces



*PAPER TWO*



How Does the Extraversion of Software Development Teams Influence Team
Satisfaction and Software Quality? : A Controlled Experiment



Marta N. Gómez (Escuela Politécnica Superior and Universidad CEU San Pablo,
Madrid, Spain), Silvia T. Acuña (Escuela Politécnica Superior and
Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain), Marcela Genero (Universidad de
Castilla-La Mancha, Madrid, Spain) and José A. Cruz-Lemus (Universidad de
Castilla-La Mancha, Madrid, Spain)



Team member knowledge and expertise are the aspects typically considered
important for software team development formation. However, the authors
believe that the formation of teams, as is found in literature, could be
based on factors related to the personalities of the members of the
development team, and that these factors might affect both the quality of
the software product developed and the satisfaction perceived by the
development team. In this work they present a controlled experiment, which
was carried out during an academic course on Data Bases. The intention of
this experiment was to evaluate whether the work team’s level of
extraversion influenced, on the one hand, the final quality of the software
products obtained and, on the other, the satisfaction perceived while this
work was being carried out. The results obtained indicate that when forming
work teams, project managers and lecturers should carry out a personality
test beforehand in order to balance the amount of extraverted team members
with those who are not extraverted. This would permit the team members to
feel satisfied with the work carried out by the team without reducing the
quality of the software products developed.



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http://www.igi-global.com/article/does-extraversion-software-development-teams/73710



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http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=73710&ptid=59592&t=how+does+the+extraversion+of+software+development+teams+influence+team+satisfaction+and+software+quality%3f%3a+a+controlled+experiment



*PAPER THREE*



Educational Games and IT Professionals: Perspectives from the Field



Miroslav Minovic (School of Business Administration, University of
Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia), Velimir Štavljanin (School of Business
Administration, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia) and Miloš
Milovanovic (School of Business Administration, University of Belgrade,
Belgrade, Serbia)



In this paper the authors will give a perspective on educational games
application in the field of IT. Main topic of this research will be
capacity for applying modern information technologies for developing
game-based learning platform. During analysis, they found that more
research is needed in order to improve application of games in education of
IT professionals. At first place, researches should cover listed problems:
how to design educative games in order to achieve better learning effects;
how to develop software tools to automate educative game development
process; and establish methods and techniques for knowledge and skills
assessment utilizing educative games.



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http://www.igi-global.com/article/educational-games-professionals/73711



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http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=73711&ptid=59592&t=educational+games+and+it+professionals%3a+perspectives+from+the+field

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*PAPER FOUR*



Satisfaction and Motivation: IT Practitioners’ Perspective



Adrián Hernández-López (Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III
de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)



Job satisfaction and motivation are traditional areas of organizational
psychology research. Nevertheless, within Software Engineering (SE), these
concepts continue to be in the research agenda. These concepts are
interrelated between them and with other important management aspects
within SE: productivity measurement. In this paper, the job satisfaction
and the motivation of software development team members are analyzed using
a qualitative exploratory approach. Results are presented under the point
of view of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and Herzberg’s dual factor theory.
Moreover, the factors that participants considered as improvers of their
productivity are also analyzed. And also, links between productivity
factors and motivation are analyzed. Finally, results points to a high
presence of hygienic factors that should be covered if organizations what
to improve the job satisfaction of software project team workers.



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http://www.igi-global.com/article/satisfaction-motivation-practitioners-perspective/73712



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http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=73712&ptid=59592&t=satisfaction+and+motivation%3a+it+practitioners%e2%80%99+perspective





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Mission



The mission of the *International Journal of Human Capital and Information
Technology Professionals (IJHCITP)* is to offer an outlook on the state of
the IT profession from the perspective of economic value based on labor
performance. Providing a forum for the exchange of research ideas and
practices, this journal is a reference convergence point for professionals,
managers, and researchers in the IT field.



Coverage



Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the
following:



·         Competence management within IT Profession

·         Ethics, professional, and social responsibilities of IT
professionals

·         Human capital within IT industry

·         Human resource management in IT sector

·         IT Careers

·         IT personnel in new production environments (software factories,
offshoring, and nearshoring)

·         IT Profession

·         IT professional associations

·         IT Professionalism

·         IT professionals assessment methods

·         IT Professionals roles

·         IT professionals under the scope of IT governance

·         Licensing and certifying of IT professionals

·         Mentoring, coaching, and counseling of IT professionals

·         Personnel issues in IT standards, models, and frameworks

·         Recruiting, staffing, retaining, and rewarding IT professionals



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Editor-in-Chief: Ricardo Colomo-Palacios at ricardo.colomo at uc3m.es
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