Career orientation and the global IT workforce: research in progress

ABSTRACT

The internationalization of the IT workforce brings new cultural values into the professional environment. Understanding these cultural values is important, because individuals should be able to determine whether their values are matched for working in a particular culture, and whether they will need to adapt their behaviors. This study is designed to identify the career orientations possessed by IT personnel who are U.S. Caucasian vs. Asian Indian in cultural background. Preliminary results of this exploratory study suggest that there is a significant difference between the means of the U.S. and the Asian sample for the Creativity/Entrepreneurship variables.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.7 THE COMPUTING PROFESSION
      K.7.0 General

General Terms:
Human Factors

Keywords:
IT workforce, career orientation, cultural differences