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Dear Colleagues,
The Australasian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS) has just
published
four new articles in its regular Research Article Section of its
volume 26.
*Factor structures associated with online student engagement in
campus-based blended and online distance education settings*
Graeme Pye, Dale Holt, Scott Salzmann
graeme.pye@deakin.edu.au
doi:
https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v26i0.2667
This research is strictly grounded in the work undertaken by
Coates
regarding traditional campus-based settings of student engagement
and was
applied to the online settings positioned within the domain
settings of
blended online learning design and practice in an Australian
higher
education business context. Utilising an online student survey
instrument,
across two consecutive academic years, undergraduate commerce
students were
invited to reflect upon their learning engagement experience
through the
lens of a common learning management system (LMS) a resource
accessible to
both campus-based and off-campus student cohorts. Subsequent
analysis of
the research reconfirms the existence of student engagement
constructs of
Coates in the blended online setting, but also unexpectedly
revealed a
previously unknown construct relating to Assessment. This new
student
engagement construct, Assessment, is identified as being a
significant
motivational factor relevant to student engagement in the context
of the
blended online learning environment of this higher education
business
undergraduate commerce course and is the focus of this exposition.
#Studentengagement#learningmanagementsystems#blendedlearning#onlineeducation#distanceeducation
*Turnover in Japanese IT Professionals: Antecedents and Nuances*
Alexander Serenko, Hiroshi Sasaki, Prashant Palvia, Osam Sato
a.serenko@uoit.ca
doi:
https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v26i0.3037
The Japanese information technology (IT) workplace is unique
compared to
that of other nations. IT represents a large sector of the
country’s
economy, and organizations need to develop proactive approaches to
retain
their IT workforce. In order to manage employee turnover, they
need to
understand the distinctive factors influencing employee turnover
intention,
as turnover intention is known to be a reliable predictor of
actual
turnover. In this study, a model was constructed and tested with
data
collected from 284 Japanese IT professionals. Our findings show
that the
effects of work exhaustion, personal accomplishment, and
friendship
networks on turnover intention are fully mediated through job
satisfaction.
Work-home conflict has no impact on job satisfaction. The strength
of the
relationships is stronger for younger than for older
organizations.
Furthermore, individualistic factors (i.e., work exhaustion and
personal
accomplishment) have a stronger impact on job satisfaction than
collectivistic factors (i.e., work-home conflict and friendship
networks).
These results show the fragility of the notion of long-term
employment,
which is supposed to be embraced within the entire Japanese work
culture.
#Japan#JobSatisfaction#TurnoverIntention#FriendshipNetworks#PersonalAccomplishment#WorkExhaustion#WorkhomeConflict#LongtermEmployment#theWorldITProject
*Errors, Irregularities, and Misdirection: Cue Utilisation and
Cognitive
Reflection in the Diagnosis of Phishing Emails*
Mitchell Ackerley, Ben W. Morrison, Kate Ingrey, Mark W. Wiggins,
Piers
Bayl-Smith, Natalie M. V. Morrison
ben.morrison@mq.edu.au
doi:
https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v26i0.3615
The study aimed to examine the role of, and potential interplay
between,
cue utilisation and cognitive reflection in email users’ ability
to
accurately (and efficiently) differentiate between phishing and
genuine
emails. 145 participants completed the Cognitive Reflection Test
(CRT), a
phishing diagnostic task, and the Expert Intensive Skill
Evaluation
(EXPERTise 2.0) battery, which provided a gauge of users’ cue
utilisation
in the domain. The results revealed an interaction between users’
cognitive
utilisation and cue reflection, whereby users low in both facets
performed
significantly worse in diagnosing phishing emails than all other
groups.
Further, those participants with both higher cue utilisation and
cognitive
reflection took significantly longer to make their diagnosis. It
is
concluded that a high level of cognitive reflection was able to
compensate
for a lower level of cue utilisation, and vice versa. Participants
reported
using seven types of cue during diagnosis, however, there was no
significant relationship between the types of cues used and users’
level of
cue utilisation. Taken together, the findings have implications to
the
design of user-level interventions in relation to the
identification of
vulnerable users, as well as the need to consider training
approaches that
extend beyond the use of simple cue inventories.
#cybersecurity#phishing#cueutilisation#cognitivereflection#expertise
*Opportunities, ethical challenges, and value implications of
pervasive
sensing technology for supporting older adults in the work
environment*
Christiane Grünloh, Miriam Cabrita, Carina Dantas, Sofia Ortet
c.grunloh@rrd.nl
doi:
https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v26i0.3133
Responding to the challenges of demographic change, a growing
number of
eHealth solutions are appearing on the market, aiming to enable
age-friendly living and working environments. Pervasive sensing
and
monitoring of workers' health-, behavioural-, emotional- and
cognitive
status to support their health and workability enable the creation
of
adaptive work environments and the provision of personalised
interventions.
However, this technology also introduces new challenges that go
beyond user
acceptance and privacy concerns. Based on a conceptual
investigation and
lessons learnt within the SmartWork project (H2020-826343), this
paper
outlines opportunities and ethical challenges of pervasive sensing
technology in the work environment that aims to support active and
healthy
ageing for office workers in a holistic way, including their
values and
preferences. Only by identifying those challenges, implicated
values and
value tensions is it possible to convert them into design
opportunities and
find innovative ways to address identified tensions. The article
outlines
steps taken within the project and closes with a reflection on the
limits
of technological responses to societal problems and the need for
regulations and changes on a societal level.
#Ethicalchallenges#smartworkenvironment#humanvalues#healthyageing#personalisedinterventions#digital
health
Thank you for the continuing interest in our work.
Best regards
Professor Karlheinz Kautz
Editor-in-Chief, Australasian Journal of Information Systems
http://journal.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/
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