[AISWorld] New article "Investigating the Motivating Potential of Software Development Methods: Insights from a Work Design Perspective"

[Wei-Ting Chen]

Kakar, A. K. (2017). " Investigating the Motivating Potential of Methods of
Software Development: Insights from a Work Design Perspective," *Pacific
Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 9*(4), pp. 65-96.

*Abstract *

In this study we view Software Development Methods (SDMs) through the
perspective of work design. The objective is to gain understanding into the
inherent potential of the two major paradigms of software development, the
Plan-driven and Agile methods, to motivate team members of software
development projects. The work design perspective is relevant for
investigating the motivating impacts of SDMs. The increasing popularity of
people focused Agile methods over process focused Plan-driven methods in
the 2000s mirror the increasing popularity of non-Taylorist work designs
over Taylorist work designs in the 1980s. Work design concepts in parallel
disciplines such as manufacturing evolved from the Taylorist focus on
specialization and time and motion studies to adopting autonomous
self-managed teams and creating employee programs like quality circles.
Gleaning concepts from the widely accepted Job Characteristic Model
(Hackman and Qldham, 1976) for work design, and the Self-Determination
Theory (Deci and Ryan, 1985), one of the most prominent theories of
motivation, provided useful insights. Together they could explain and
predict the differential impacts of plan-driven and Agile methods of
software development on team member motivation.


Available at:
https://journal.ecrc.nsysu.edu.tw/index.php/pajais/article/view/438