Alicja Keplinger

Job Satisfaction and Ethical Behaviors Premises of IT Users Insight from Poland

The paper concerns ethical, human and organizational aspects of IS development. The aim of the research is to examine the dependency of job satisfaction (JS) and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) with its two dimensions (individual and organizational), among IT users in Poland, a transition economy. The research results complement the gap in the scientific literature, that concerns the psychosocial characteristics of IT users, as ethical attitudes and job satisfaction components. The authors elaborated questionnaire of JS including such dimensions like relations between employees, supervisors’ managing style, the organization of work in the company, information and communication within the company, representing the interests of the employee, creating opportunities for staff development (motivation, evaluation, promotion) and subjective JS. The analysis is based on a survey conducted among 362 IT users in south-west region of Poland. The results of this survey show that job satisfaction has an impact on ethical behavior premises of IT users in transition economies.

Does Human Potentiality Affect IT Professionals’ Organizational Behavior? An Experimental Study in Poland and Germany

The goal of our paper is to examine if human potentiality (HP) affects IT professionals’ organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) in relation to Poland (transition economy) and Germany (developed economy). For the goal of the study the authors elaborated two novel questionnaires: the Human Potentiality Inventory (HPI) and adapted Employee Behavior Questionnaire (EBQ). We investigated seven dimensions of the HP and two dimensions of the OCB. We collected necessary data by random interpersonal network and sequence sampling. We also applied the passive optimal experiment design, conducted among IT professionals, in Germany and Poland. Our findings confirmed the effects of nationality and association between HP and OCB among IT professionals, in Germany and Poland. The novelty of the study is the cross cultural approach, experimental passive design and recognition of association between human potentiality and organizational citizenship behavior.

Organizational citizenship behavior of IT professionals: lessons from Poland and Germany

ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to investigate the similarities and differences in Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) of male and female information technology (IT) professionals in Poland and Germany, which represent a transition economy and a developed economy, respectively. We examined two dimensions of OCB: individually-oriented (OCBI) and organizationally-oriented (OCBO). We conducted an online survey among 282 Polish respondents and 80 German respondents, using a combination of random and snowball sampling. We observed both similarities and differences between Polish and German IT professionals. Overall, female subordinates evaluated their supervisors’ OCB more positively than did male subordinates. In contrast, female supervisors evaluated their subordinates’ OCB less positively than did male supervisors. Also, it was evident that in Germany employees value OCB more than those in Poland. In conclusion, our findings contribute to the stream of existing research on the relationship between gender, country and OCB in transition and developed economies in Europe.