Managing for results: An examination of professional group perceptions of organizational practices

The primary purpose of the study was to ascertain if organizational practices, as perceived by individuals comprising information systems (IS) professional groups (i.e., system analysts, programmer analysts, programmers, and operations personnel), are related to job satisfaction and job performance, and, if such relationships exist, to determine which perceived organizational practices (factors) are significant for each IS professional group. Job satisfaction variance is explained by people, structural, and task oriented factors. Job performance variance is explained only by people oriented factors. Significant factors vary for each IS professional group.