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*International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals (IJHCITP)*

Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association

Volume 3, Issue 4, October - December 2012

Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically

ISSN: 1947-3478 EISSN: 1947-3486

Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA

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Editor-in-Chief: Ricardo Colomo-Palacios (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)

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*PAPER ONE*

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Reducing Information Asymmetry in Cloud Marketplaces

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Vladimir Stantchev (SRH University Berlin, Berlin, Germany) and Gerrit Tamm (SRH University Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

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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 â??How do I choose the right offering?â?? 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.

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*PAPER TWO*

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How Does the Extraversion of Software Development Teams Influence Team Satisfaction and Software Quality? : A Controlled Experiment

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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)

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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 teamâ??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.

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*PAPER THREE*

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Educational Games and IT Professionals: Perspectives from the Field

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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)

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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.

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*PAPER FOUR*

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Satisfaction and Motivation: IT Practitionersâ?? Perspective

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Adrián Hernández-López (Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)

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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 Maslowâ??s hierarchy of needs and Herzbergâ??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.

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Mission

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The mission of the *International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals (IJHCITP)* 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.

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Coverage

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Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:

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·        Competence management within IT Profession

·        Ethics, professional, and social responsibilities of IT professionals

·        Human capital within IT industry

·        Human resource management in IT sector

·        IT Careers

·        IT personnel in new production environments (software factories, offshoring, and nearshoring)

·        IT Profession

·        IT professional associations

·        IT Professionalism

·        IT professionals assessment methods

·        IT Professionals roles

·        IT professionals under the scope of IT governance

·        Licensing and certifying of IT professionals

·        Mentoring, coaching, and counseling of IT professionals

·        Personnel issues in IT standards, models, and frameworks

·        Recruiting, staffing, retaining, and rewarding IT professionals

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