IT/IS professionals'' core self-evaluation on the effect of superstition

• Main Authors: Bo-Ren Tian, 田博仁
• Other Authors: Tzu-Ming Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59219378317673473880

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 資訊管理研究所 === 98 === 　　In case of problems, IT/IS professionals often dominated by logical thinking and supplemented by experience, trying to deal with problems. However, when computer systems crash, IT/IS departments in Taiwan''s enterprises often attributed to superstition factor. For example: In order to avoid the computer no reason behind the crash, IT/IS departments will put some green packaging “Kuai Kuai” (A kind of snack, means obedient or well-behaved) nearby computers. But other color packaging will have the negetive effect. Another similar example is that: Don’t put “Want Want” (Means flourishing) Senbei nearby computers, because the computer will often go wrong, resulting in a flourishing population room. 　　Based on the above phenomenon, researchers had the research motivation: To place food in the room will easy breeding animals and increase the damage risk on equipments in the generator room. It should be common sense for IT/IS professionals, but why IT/IS departments in Taiwan''s enterprises have this superstition behavior? 　　The main samples of this research are IT/IS professionals, and non-IT/IS professionals is in the control group. The study uses questionnaires to collect data, and use core self-evaluation theory to evaluating the personality characteristics of samples. The results showed that: Core self-evaluation have a significant effect on superstitious; Men, older age, higher management proportion job and longer working years, the core self-evaluation scores relatively high. Interestingly, although the superstition of IT/IS professionals than non-IT/IS professionals are low, IT/IS professionals have higher superstition level than non-IT/IS professionals for this superstitious behavior “put some green packaging Kuai Kuai nearby computers.”