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Is Updating Play or Work?: The Mediating Role of Updating Orientation in Linking Threat of Professional Obsolescence to Turnover/Turnaway Intentions

Is Updating Play or Work?: The Mediating Role of Updating Orientation in Linking Threat of Professional Obsolescence to Turnover/Turnaway Intentions

Damien Joseph, Mei Ling Tan, Soon Ang
Copyright: © 2011 |Volume: 1 |Issue: 4 |Pages: 11
ISSN: 2155-6334|EISSN: 2155-6342|EISBN13: 9781613509081|DOI: 10.4018/ijsodit.2011100103
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Joseph, Damien, et al. "Is Updating Play or Work?: The Mediating Role of Updating Orientation in Linking Threat of Professional Obsolescence to Turnover/Turnaway Intentions." IJSODIT vol.1, no.4 2011: pp.37-47. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijsodit.2011100103

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Joseph, D., Tan, M. L., & Ang, S. (2011). Is Updating Play or Work?: The Mediating Role of Updating Orientation in Linking Threat of Professional Obsolescence to Turnover/Turnaway Intentions. International Journal of Social and Organizational Dynamics in IT (IJSODIT), 1(4), 37-47. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijsodit.2011100103

Chicago

Joseph, Damien, Mei Ling Tan, and Soon Ang. "Is Updating Play or Work?: The Mediating Role of Updating Orientation in Linking Threat of Professional Obsolescence to Turnover/Turnaway Intentions," International Journal of Social and Organizational Dynamics in IT (IJSODIT) 1, no.4: 37-47. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijsodit.2011100103

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Abstract

This study proposes that IT professionals’ behavioral orientation towards IT knowledge and skills updating demands can take on two contrasting forms: updating-as-play or updating-as-work. Drawing on threat-rigidity theory (Staw, Sandelands, & Dutton, 1981), the authors hypothesize that IT professionals who feel threatened by professional obsolescence are more likely to approach updating-as-work more than as play. Results from a sample of IT professionals are consistent with threat-rigidity theory (Staw et al., 1981) in that the threat of professional obsolescence is negatively related to updating-as-play and is positively related to updating-as-work. The authors also find that updating-as-play is negatively related to turnaway intentions and that updating-as-work is positively related to turnover intentions; these findings are consistent with IT theories of job mobility. The authors conclude this study with a discussion of these results and propose future research directions.

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