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Crispin Coombs
Crispin
Coombs
Improving retention strategies for IT professionals working in the public sector
Loughborough University
2009
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Information Systems
Business and Management not elsewhere classified
2009-05-07 13:36:26
Journal contribution
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Improving_retention_strategies_for_IT_professionals_working_in_the_public_sector/9501452
Despite much research interest, effective retention of IT professionals has proved
difficult for many public sector organizations. By concentrating on intention to leave,
researchers may not have provided a clear way to formulate effective retention
strategies. Consequently, we used intention to stay as an alternative lens to identify
factors that can reduce turnover of IT professionals. Our findings indicated that
attitudes, perceived behavioral control, and identification with the organization all had a
statistically significant relationship with intention to stay; attitude was the strongest. It
was concluded that existing retention strategies needed to be refocused on the issues
that make IT staff stay; a number of practical recommendations for IT managers are presented