@article{RadantColomoPalaciosStantchev2014, author = {Radant, Olaf and Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo and Stantchev, Vladimir}, title = {Analysis of Reasons, Implications and Consequences of Demographic Change for IT Departments in Times of Scarcity of Talent: a Systematic Review}, series = {International Journal of Knowledge Management}, volume = {10}, journal = {International Journal of Knowledge Management}, number = {4}, pages = {1 -- 15}, year = {2014}, abstract = {The skill shortage is becoming an ever-increasing challenge for IT departments. Allocation of resources in the best possible way is even more important. The challenge is to improve the enterprise not only on the side of the organizational and process level, but to develop new strategies and approaches in human resource management. Only a symbiosis of the disciplines economics, psychology and information technology will enable relevant and indispensable employees and promote loyalty to the company. A frequent change of the work place, for a well-trained professional, is so long associated with normality until they find the best environment for fulfilling their needs and expectations. These expectations are no longer just on a financial level. This paper will analyse the previous work on these topics and demonstrate first conclusions regarding a way forward.}, language = {en} } @article{StantchevRadantColomoPalacios2016, author = {Stantchev, Vladimir and Radant, Olaf and Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo}, title = {Assessment of Continuing Educational Measures in Software Engineering: a View from the Industry}, series = {International Journal of Engineering Education}, volume = {32}, journal = {International Journal of Engineering Education}, number = {2B}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0298-opus4-10606}, pages = {905 -- 914}, year = {2016}, abstract = {In a field like Software Engineering, highly dependent on knowledge, continuing education is key to warrantee business sustainability. In this scenario, relying on continuing educational measures is crucial to support organizations in their competence management programs. In order to validate a set of measures, in this paper an interview study regarding continuing education measures is reported. The study was carried out in late 2014, early 2015 with some of the most experienced SE professionals from the consulting company BearingPoint. Study findings suggest an increasing relevance of such educational measures. Furthermore, authors provide insights about relevant educational measures, improvement areas in employees' training, commonly experienced problems, as well as instruments for control and evaluation.}, language = {en} } @article{RadantColomoPalaciosStantchev2016, author = {Radant, Olaf and Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo and Stantchev, Vladimir}, title = {Factors for the Management of Scarce Human Resources and Highly Skilled Employees in IT-Departments: a Systematic Review}, series = {Journal of Information Technology Research}, volume = {9}, journal = {Journal of Information Technology Research}, number = {1}, pages = {65 -- 82}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Due to an unsatisfying demographic development in most European states, companies have to solve a trade-off between a needed increase of productivity on the one hand and fewer highly skilled employees on the other hand. In this paper, authors propose factors for different layers of a framework to manage scarce resources in IT-departments. These layers aim for different relevant dimensions of employee satisfaction like wages, psychological development of employees and work life balance. Authors present a structured literature review to screen relevant publications on the topic. This paper offers white range of different factors regarding the management of labour shortage and highly skilled employees in companies which can be used to build a holistic model or framework to solve the challenges of the upcoming demographic change in Europe. Although the topic is quite popular in scientific literature, there is not a study devoted to identify these factors in organizational contexts. This paper is aimed to bridge this gap.}, language = {en} }