TY - JOUR A1 - Radant, Olaf A1 - Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir T1 - Analysis of Reasons, Implications and Consequences of Demographic Change for IT Departments in Times of Scarcity of Talent: a Systematic Review JF - International Journal of Knowledge Management N2 - 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. KW - Demographic Change KW - IT Management KW - Human Resource Management Y1 - 2014 N1 - Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286454413_Analysis_of_Reasons_Implications_and_Consequences_of_Demographic_Change_for_IT_Departments_in_Times_of_Scarcity_of_Talent_A_Systematic_Review VL - 10 IS - 4 SP - 1 EP - 15 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir A1 - Radant, Olaf A1 - Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo T1 - Assessment of Continuing Educational Measures in Software Engineering: a View from the Industry JF - International Journal of Engineering Education N2 - 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. KW - Software Engineering KW - Business sustainability KW - Competence management Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0298-opus4-10606 VL - 32 IS - 2B SP - 905 EP - 914 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Radant, Olaf A1 - Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir T1 - Factors for the Management of Scarce Human Resources and Highly Skilled Employees in IT-Departments: a Systematic Review JF - Journal of Information Technology Research N2 - 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. KW - Research Methodology KW - Demographic development KW - IT-departments Y1 - 2016 N1 - Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301271759_Factors_for_the_Management_of_Scarce_Human_Resources_and_Highly_Skilled_Employees_in_IT-Departments_A_Systematic_Review VL - 9 IS - 1 SP - 65 EP - 82 ER -