---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: CFP: The IT Workforce in the Digital World Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 11:25:11 -0400 From: Munir Mandviwalla mandviwa@temple.edu To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

DUE TO NUMEROUS REQUESTS SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 31, 2001

The Information Technology (IT) Workforce in the Digital World: Managing IT workers across borders, time, distance, and culture

Computer Personnel Research 2002 Conference Kristiansand, Norway, May 14-16, 2002

Call for Papers

In the e-work, e-place, e-person global economy, the role, meaning, implication of the IT worker continues to evolve. Who is the IT professional of the future? The financial analyst in Philadelphia who is customizing Microsoft Excel to display interactive budgets on the web for clients in China? The COBOL programmer in India whose skills are brokered by a “body shop” in New Jersey to clients in the United Kingdom? Who is responsible for managing and recruiting such diverse personnel? The human resources department that needs relatively fixed job definitions and salary codes or the project manager who will not know until the project starts what skills are needed? Who will educate the IT workers of the future? A traditional university following a linear multi-year curriculum? Online “learn as you go” operations? Self-help books and certification centers? How will these workers interact with each other and their clients and managers when they need to be in multiple locations? What will IT workers do when they get laid off and burnt out from the nth .com? How will workers who are trained only to code learn to interact with clients and other workers who have different backgrounds? How will the global economy respond to the continued shortage of skilled personnel?

You are invited to submit empirical or theoretical papers, tutorials, and panel proposals related to the above topics to the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research (SIGCPR) 2002 Conference. Other topics related to information technology and information systems management are also encouraged. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Recruitment and Retention - IT workforce analysis by industry or geographic location - Managing the outsourcing processes - Training and Retraining - Compensation Models - Measuring IT workforce performance - Impact of Globalization

Key Dates Submission Deadline: October 31, 2001 Decision to Authors: December 17, 2001 Camera Ready Copy Due: January 15, 2002

Conference Committee Maung Sein, Conference Co-Chair (Maung.K.Sein@hia.no) Carl Erik Moe, Conference Co-Chair and Treasurer (Carl.E.Moe@hia.no) Munir Mandviwalla, Program Chair (mandviwa@temple.edu) Stan Clark, Publicity chair (sclark@stevens-tech.edu) Tore Orvik, Local Arrangements Chair (Tore.Orvik@hia.no)

Please review the ACM SIGCPR web site for additional details and submission instructions: http://www.acm.org/sigcpr

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