New Challenges in Motivating MIS Personnel

Because of changes in the work environment, motivating MIS personnel has become more challenging to both MIS managers and CIOs. Although studies show that most of these employees (with the exception of maintenance personnel) enjoy their work, MIS managers still need to improve elements of their staffs' jobs (e.g., salary and opportunity for advancement) to maintain the quality of their staffs' work. To show how the task of motivating MIS personnel has changed, the author presents some results from his research on motivation factors of MIS professionals.