TY - GEN
T1 - How temporal work styles and product modularity influence software quality and job satisfaction
AU - Foerderer, Jens
AU - Kude, Thomas
AU - Mithas, Sunil
AU - Heinzl, Armin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 ACM.
PY - 2016/6/2
Y1 - 2016/6/2
N2 - This paper investigates how two key outcomes in software development - software quality and job satisfaction of software developers - are influenced by product modularity and developers' temporal work style, i.e., the preferences for completing the bulk of work closer to the deadlines. We argue that high deadline orientation positively interacts with product modularity to influence software quality and job satisfaction of developers. An empirical test using a unique data set on more than 140 software developers working at a large global software vendor confirms our hypotheses. We contribute to the literature on software development by showing that software quality and job satisfaction can be increased by matching the fit between technological characteristics of the software product and people factors (i.e., the preferred temporal work style of developers). Our study has wider implications for literature on temporal work styles and product modularity and can be informative for practitioners who are tasked with hiring or allocating software developers for software products with varying modularity.
AB - This paper investigates how two key outcomes in software development - software quality and job satisfaction of software developers - are influenced by product modularity and developers' temporal work style, i.e., the preferences for completing the bulk of work closer to the deadlines. We argue that high deadline orientation positively interacts with product modularity to influence software quality and job satisfaction of developers. An empirical test using a unique data set on more than 140 software developers working at a large global software vendor confirms our hypotheses. We contribute to the literature on software development by showing that software quality and job satisfaction can be increased by matching the fit between technological characteristics of the software product and people factors (i.e., the preferred temporal work style of developers). Our study has wider implications for literature on temporal work styles and product modularity and can be informative for practitioners who are tasked with hiring or allocating software developers for software products with varying modularity.
KW - Deadline orientation
KW - Job satisfaction
KW - Modularity
KW - Software development
KW - Software quality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84978121152&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2890602.2890608
DO - 10.1145/2890602.2890608
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84978121152
T3 - SIGMIS-CPR 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGMIS Conference on Computers and People Research
SP - 105
EP - 112
BT - SIGMIS-CPR 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGMIS Conference on Computers and People Research
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - Annual ACM SIGMIS Conference on Computers and People Research, SIGMIS CPR 2016
Y2 - 2 June 2016 through 4 June 2016
ER -
