TY - GEN
T1 - The role of work engagement in agile software development
T2 - 52nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2019
AU - Huck-Fries, Veronika
AU - Prommegger, Barbara
AU - Wiesche, Manuel
AU - Krcmar, Helmut
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Agile software development projects still show a high failure rate. Despite a growing amount of research, underlying reasons for project performance currently remain rare. Drawing on the job demands-resources theory, we propose a theoretical model of work engagement in agile software development teams. Using structural equation modeling, we found that agile practices diminish job demands (perceived workload and role ambiguity) and support job resources (perceived meaningfulness and job autonomy). Job resources have been found to be positively related to work engagement in agile software development teams. Our research contributes to the limited empirical understanding on work engagement in agile software development. For practitioners, our model provides tools to effectively manage team members' work engagement.
AB - Agile software development projects still show a high failure rate. Despite a growing amount of research, underlying reasons for project performance currently remain rare. Drawing on the job demands-resources theory, we propose a theoretical model of work engagement in agile software development teams. Using structural equation modeling, we found that agile practices diminish job demands (perceived workload and role ambiguity) and support job resources (perceived meaningfulness and job autonomy). Job resources have been found to be positively related to work engagement in agile software development teams. Our research contributes to the limited empirical understanding on work engagement in agile software development. For practitioners, our model provides tools to effectively manage team members' work engagement.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85108277789
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 7048
EP - 7056
BT - Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2019
A2 - Bui, Tung X.
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 8 January 2019 through 11 January 2019
ER -