Today, new skills are required to compete in a global economy where organizations have new alternatives to choose from.

In the next ten years as baby boomers retire, even more opportunities will become available. Finding IT professionals with specific skills is no easy feat. Today's job skills require not only strong technical skills, but also excellent business, industry, communication, marketing and negotiating abilities.

Managing IT Human Resources: Considerations for Organizations and Personnel

Provides a comprehensive presentation of current and emerging perspectives focusing on all aspects of managing IT HR from the view of both practitioners and academics located around the globe.

It will focus on the results of recent research (from leading practitioners and academics) and their implications to IT human resource considerations.

It presents what IT professionals are seeking in a position, characteristics of the IT environment that contributes to the HR complexity, the retention of IT talent, stress in the workplace, IT career development, and the impact of IT outsourcing.