Call for Papers

HICSS 2014 Minitrack Title:  Emerging Issues facing the Computing Workforce

 

Details:

January 6-9, 2014

Hilton Waikoloa

Big Island, Hawaii

Website: www.hicss.hawaii.edu

 

This minitrack covers issues relating to the intersection of humans and technology that may be examined from an organizational, managerial, psychological, social, political, or cultural perspective.  This minitrack seeks groundbreaking research regarding emerging issues facing IS professionals— (i.e., leaders at the IS project level, CIO level, line staff or external professional service providers) such as the impact of cloud computing, social networking technologies, mobile technologies, as well as the return to onshoring and how these affect the management of human computing resources.  This minitrack welcomes papers that perform analysis at the industry, workgroup or department, and individual level.  Studies developing or extending theory on issues such as the professional identity of the computing workforce to the behavioral and managerial implications of managing in a global world are welcome. This minitrack also welcomes papers which offer insights into the training and professional development of current and future generations of IS professionals. This minitrack will welcome all methodologies and research paradigms as well as best practices/lessons learned that focus on the intersection of humans and technology.

 

The following include suggestions for applicable (but not limited to) topics for this mini-track:

*Negative cognitions of IS-enabled patterns of work

*Managerial influence of social networking on IT professionals

*The IT professional as a technologist and an emerging vendor manager.

*The IT professional as the ultimate mobile worker, supporting technology and users from anywhere, anytime, on any device.

*Professional Commitment of Computing Personnel

*Career Development Practices for Computing Professionals

*Attracting Students to the Computing Professions

*Diversity in the Computing Field

*Retention and Refilling the Pipeline

*Needs, Interests and Abilities of Computing Professionals

*User- relations

*Individual Fit / Alignment with the Work Environment

*Global Talent Management (e.g., Immigration vs Migration)

*Behavioral Aspects of HCI 

*Communication / Interaction (individuals, groups, networks, organizations)

*Work-life Balance

*Training

*HRIS / HRMS

*Legal and Ethical Issues Related to Managing Human Computing Resources

 

Deadlines:

 

June 15: Submit full manuscripts for review. The review is double-blind; therefore this submission must be without author names.

 

August 15: Acceptance notices are emailed to authors by the Review System. At least one author of each accepted paper must immediately make plans to attend the conference, including initiating fiscal, visa, or other travel guarantees.

 

September 15: Accepted authors submit Final Paper.

 

October 1: Early Registration fee deadline. At least one author of each paper should register by this date.

 

October 15: Papers without at least one paid-in-full registered author may be deleted from the proceedings and not scheduled for presentation.

 

Mini-Track Chairs:

Cynthia K. Riemenschneider

Management Information Systems Department

Baylor University

c_riemenschneider@baylor.edu

 

Deborah J. Armstrong

Management Department

The Florida State University

djarmstrong@cob.fsu.edu