[AISWorld] AMCIS 2019 CFP: SIGLEAD Minitrack - IS Career Development

[Paola Gonzalez]

25th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) August 15-17, 2019 Cancun, Mexico.

Mini Track 2: IS Career Development  [Part of SIGLEAD ]
https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/submissions/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-12

Deadline for Submissions: 1 March 2019


The IS Career Development mini-track in the IS Leadership and the IT Profession track is aimed at fostering a forum for IS scholars engaged in IS Career Development research to share their research, engage in exchange of perspectives, and encourage future collaborations. IS Career Development is broadly defined to include research on IS professionals at various levels of the organization (e.g., CIOs, IT managers, IT supervisors, Programmers, IT security) including their roles and careers. This proposed mini-track would be sponsored by the AIS Special Interest Group on IS Leadership (SIG LEAD).

Though articles on IS Career Development abound in the practitioner press and associations, much less attention has been devoted to the topic from an academic perspective. The IT profession is a critical driving force for today’s organizations. Despite this importance, IT professionals are constantly facing challenges in their efforts to realize IT value, to climb the corporate ladder, to have a diverse workforce, among others. The objective of this mini-track is to help us, academics and practitioners, further explore these issues and aim at better understanding the relationship between the IT professional and the organization. This mini-track welcomes research that address the issues above and emerging ones within the IS/IT workforce, talent management, career streams, professional developments, work/family balance of IS professionals, as well as ethical, societal, and legal issues related to managing IT professionals, among others.

Possible Topics:

  *   Information systems roles and careers
  *   Career streams and professional development of technical managers/leaders and staff
  *   Preparation and development of non-technical executives for senior IS and technology positions in large enterprises and for IS as a secondary role in SMEs
  *   Diversity within the IT profession
  *   IS training and global talent management
  *   IS professional identity (e.g., the business and tech gap)

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at paola.gonzalez at dal.ca<mailto:paola.gonzalez at dal.ca>

Paola Gonzalez

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Paola A Gonzalez, PhD.
Assistant Professor, Management of Information Systems (MIS)
Rowe School of Business
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS Canada