TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact of online teamwork self-efficacy on attitudes toward teamwork
AU - Konak, Abdullah
AU - Kulturel-Konak, Sadan
N1 - Funding Information:
Sadan Kulturel‐Konak is a Professor of Management Information Systems at Penn State Berks where she is also the Director of the Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CEED) Center. She received her degrees in Industrial Engineering; B.S. from Gazi University, Turkey, M.S. from the Middle East Technical University, Turkey and from the University of Pittsburgh, and Ph.D. from Auburn University. Her research interests are in modeling and optimization of complex systems and robustness under uncertainty with applications to facility layout, reliability, and scheduling. She has published her research in numerous journals including IIE Transactions, OR Letters, INFORMS Journal on Computing, the INFORMS Transactions on Education, the International Journal of Production Research, the European Journal of Operational Research, and the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing Computers. She is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). She has been a principal investigator in sponsored projects from National Science Foundation (NSF) and Venture Well. sadan@psu.edu.
Funding Information:
Abdullah Konak is a Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University Berks. Dr. Konak received his degrees in Industrial Engineering, B.S. from Yildiz Technical University, Turkey, M.S. from Bradley University, and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to his current position, he taught at Auburn University. Dr. Konak also held visiting positions at Lehigh University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Konak’s current research interest is in the application of operations research techniques to complex problems, including such topics as network design, network reliability, facilities design, green logistics, and data mining. Dr. Konak has published papers in leading journals such as Operations Research Letters, the Informs Journal on Computing, the European Journal of Operations Research, the Computers and Operations Research, IIE Transactions, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, International Journal of Production Research, and Production Economics. He has been a principal investigator in sponsored projects from the National Science Foundation, the National Security Agency, the US Department of Labor, and Venture Well.
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PY - 2019/7/1
Y1 - 2019/7/1
N2 - The lack of professional skills in project teams is one of the most important factors contributing to the high failure rate of Information Technology (IT) projects. Therefore, preparing students for increasingly complex IT projects has been an important learning objective in information sciences and technology programs. This article investigates the relationships between face-to-face students' self-efficacy of managing project tasks through online processes and their attitudes toward teamwork. The relationships among student engagement in learning experiences related to teamwork, self-efficacy of technology-mediated teamwork, and attitudes towards teamwork are investigated using confirmatory factor analysis on a data set with 344 participants. The analysis shows that self-efficacy of technology-mediated teamwork mediates the effect of learning engagement on attitudes toward teamwork. Therefore, the article postulates that mastering technology-mediated teamwork skills helps face-to-face students develop positive attitudes toward teamwork, which can be transferred to the workplace.
AB - The lack of professional skills in project teams is one of the most important factors contributing to the high failure rate of Information Technology (IT) projects. Therefore, preparing students for increasingly complex IT projects has been an important learning objective in information sciences and technology programs. This article investigates the relationships between face-to-face students' self-efficacy of managing project tasks through online processes and their attitudes toward teamwork. The relationships among student engagement in learning experiences related to teamwork, self-efficacy of technology-mediated teamwork, and attitudes towards teamwork are investigated using confirmatory factor analysis on a data set with 344 participants. The analysis shows that self-efficacy of technology-mediated teamwork mediates the effect of learning engagement on attitudes toward teamwork. Therefore, the article postulates that mastering technology-mediated teamwork skills helps face-to-face students develop positive attitudes toward teamwork, which can be transferred to the workplace.
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U2 - 10.4018/IJITPM.2019070101
DO - 10.4018/IJITPM.2019070101
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85068672023
SN - 1938-0232
VL - 10
SP - 1
EP - 17
JO - International Journal of Information Technology Project Management
JF - International Journal of Information Technology Project Management
IS - 3
ER -