<div dir="ltr"><p class=""><span lang="EN-US">The contents of the latest issue of:</span></p>
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<p class=""><b><span lang="EN-US">International
Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals (IJHCITP)</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">Official Publication of the Information
Resources Management Association</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">Volume 3, Issue 4, October - December
2012</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">Published: Quarterly in Print and
Electronically</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">ISSN: 1947-3478 EISSN: <span class="">1947-3486</span></span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New
York, USA</span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">Editor-in-Chief: Ricardo Colomo-Palacios
(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)</span></p>
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<p class=""><b><span lang="EN-US">PAPER
ONE</span></b></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">Reducing Information Asymmetry in Cloud
Marketplaces</span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">Vladimir Stantchev (SRH University
Berlin, Berlin, Germany) and Gerrit Tamm (SRH University Berlin, Berlin,
Germany)</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:7.65pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">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.</span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">To obtain a copy of the entire article,
click on the link below.</span></p>
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<p class=""><b><span lang="EN-US">PAPER
TWO</span></b></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">How Does the Extraversion of Software
Development Teams Influence Team Satisfaction and Software Quality? : A
Controlled Experiment</span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">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)</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:7.65pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">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.</span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">To obtain a copy of the entire article,
click on the link below.</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.igi-global.com/article/does-extraversion-software-development-teams/73710">http://www.igi-global.com/article/does-extraversion-software-development-teams/73710</a></span></p>
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<p class=""><b><span lang="EN-US">PAPER
THREE</span></b></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">Educational Games and IT Professionals:
Perspectives from the Field</span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">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)</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:7.65pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">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.</span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">To obtain a copy of the entire article,
click on the link below.</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.igi-global.com/article/educational-games-professionals/73711">http://www.igi-global.com/article/educational-games-professionals/73711</a></span></p>
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<p class=""><b><span lang="EN-US">PAPER
FOUR</span></b></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">Satisfaction and Motivation: IT
Practitioners’ Perspective</span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">Adrián Hernández-López (Computer Science
Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain) </span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:7.65pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">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.</span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">To obtain a copy of the entire article,
click on the link below.</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.igi-global.com/article/satisfaction-motivation-practitioners-perspective/73712">http://www.igi-global.com/article/satisfaction-motivation-practitioners-perspective/73712</a></span></p>
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<p class=""><b><span lang="EN-US">CALL
FOR PAPERS</span></b></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">Mission</span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">The mission of the <b>International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology
Professionals (IJHCITP)</b> 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.</span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">Coverage</span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">Topics to be discussed in this journal
include (but are not limited to) the following:</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Competence management within IT
Profession</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Ethics, professional, and
social responsibilities of IT professionals</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Human capital within IT
industry</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Human resource management in IT
sector</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">IT Careers</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">IT personnel in new production
environments (software factories, offshoring, and nearshoring)</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US">IT Profession</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">IT professional associations</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">IT Professionalism</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">IT professionals assessment
methods</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">IT Professionals roles</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">IT professionals under the
scope of IT governance</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Licensing and certifying of IT
professionals</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Mentoring, coaching, and
counseling of IT professionals</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Personnel issues in IT
standards, models, and frameworks</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Recruiting, staffing,
retaining, and rewarding IT professionals</span></p>
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