Hi there,

I got to your site via E2 - I am a psychology researcher interested in looking at the job attitudes of IT professionals, and theorise (after a brief tour of the site) that you may have more than the average number of these amongst your target user group.

I am trying to find ways to recuit subjects to complete a web-based questionnaire on job attiudes (satisifaction with your job, your organisation, your career, etc) beginning in about July, and I was wondering whether it would be appropriate to post a request for interested people to one of the sections on your website.

Could you please let me know whether this would be appropriate or not (as I really don't want to offend anyone, or waste your time). My email is JobAttitudesIT@hotmail.com, and I am happy to provide you with more information if that would help you make a decision, or answer any questions you might have. The aim of my study is to discover what IT professionals need to be satisifed at work, so hopefully the results of this study will bring something good to everyone who participates, when it is completed.

If you have any suggestions about more appropriate places to attempt to recruit subjects, please let me know.

Thanks for your time,

Ms. Jordan Roberts.
Psychology Department
University of Adelaide,
South Australia
Australia

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Re: I really don't know whether this would be acceptable or not
by jorg (Friar) on Mar 16, 2001 at 15:57 UTC
    The aim of my study is to discover what IT professionals need to be satisifed at work

    U could probably mine Perlmonks.org to get an idea on what Perl focussed IT pro's *cough* need to be satisfied at work. Eg this link has got some interesting thoughts on the subject already.

    One thing you could include in your study to make it really cool is to research the correlation between certain likes/dislikes of people and the technologies they use...eg perl-adepts will be happy at work if you give them IRC access, while vbscript programmers are satisfied as long as you give them their monthly copy of the MSDN etc..
    Maybe you could even try and extract some sort of psychological profile of people in different technology areas. I think a lot can be said about a person leaning towards *nix and GNU type of products, just like one can tell a lot about someones attitude if you know he's heavily into MS stuff..
    The study will certainly be valued by IT managers and the likes, who sometimes don't seem to understand why brilliant young programmers choose to go and work for a company 'with a cool attitude' rather than some boring bank paying big nachos

    Note: I emailed this link to the author as well

    Jorg
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