Determinants of MIS employees' turnover intentions

Abstract

A phenomenal demand for im-sonnel threaten plementing information technologv into organizations has ~$!a$~~~; keep up with the produced an accompanying ~?$y;~ demand for management information systems (MIS) professionals organization,, 1521. The importhat continues to increase substantially each year I7, 471. MOreOVer, ;;z;f;EOzz management is also reflected in MIS professionals have historically displayed a disturbingly high rate of turnover that reached nearly 20% in 1987 [7], and is about twice the average for business managers and professionals 1321. Excessive turnover in this area can be dysfunctional to organizations because of the shortage of experienced MIS employees and the high cost of training new employees 1311.