Leadership Challenges in Agile Environments

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-44
Author(s):  
Fernando Almeida ◽  
Jorge Simões
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Team Management ◽  
Management Competencies ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Leadership Challenges ◽  
Technology Sector ◽  
Agile Methodologies ◽  
Leadership Process ◽  
People Skills

Several companies in the information technology field are progressively adopting Agile methodologies. This change necessarily transforms the management paradigm and poses new challenges to the leadership process. In this sense, this study seeks to explore the challenges perceived by leaders and perceive the competencies they should have to manage projects and teams in an Agile environment. The study used a survey to obtain data from 387 professionals in the information technology sector. The findings reveal the most important skills include the ability to have people skills, team management competencies, provide feedback on employee performance, and have problem-solving skills. Additionally, this study reveals people's management dimension is key to increasing productivity in Agile environments, and furthermore, respondents' years of experience proved to be discriminating in perceiving the importance of these skills. The outcomes of this study are relevant for companies that are migrating to the agile paradigm and are facing challenges in managing the leadership of these projects.

scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis on the Causes of Occupational Stress among Men and Women Employees and its Effect on Performance at the workplace of Information Technology Sector, Hyderabad

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 796-807
Author(s):  
KDV Prasad ◽  
Rajesh Vaidya ◽  
V Anil Kumar ◽  
B Rekha
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Occupational Stress ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Technology Sector ◽  
Women Employees ◽  
Information Technology Sector ◽  
Dependent Factor

The research study presents the outcome of a comparative analysis on causes of occupational stress among the Men and Women employees and its effect on the employee performance at the workplace of Information Technology Sector (ITS), Hyderabad. A survey of 200 employees consisting 110 Men and 90 Women working in the IT sector was carried out to assess the six independent stress causing factors Job related, Organizational Related, Career, Physiological, Behavioral and Individual factors and its effect on employees’ Performance a dependent factor. The descriptive analysis, correlation techniques and parametric statistics like t-test, F-test and multiple regression analysis carried out to arrive at the conclusions. To measure the reliability of the scale used for this study, and internal consistencies of the survey questionnaire, the reliability static Cronbach’s alpha (C-alpha) and Spearman-Brown split-half reliability statistics were estimated. The overall C-alpha is 0.89 whereas the Spearman-Brown split half statistic is 0.83. The C-alpha values ranged from 0.62 to 0.76 for Men and 0.60 to 0.74 for Women, for all the 6 independent and one dependent factor. The results of the study indicate that the medium level occupational stress exists at the workplace in general, effecting the performance moderately. Health-wise, some employees developed chronic neck and back pain, an effect of long sitting hours at work. The study confirms that Women will have more stress than Men, however the factors causing the stress among the Men and Women are not similar.

IMPACTS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE DURING THE COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-16
Author(s):  
Febriani Febriani ◽  
Sapta Eka Putra
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Government Employees ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Library Research ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic, an ongoing and fast-spreading virus outbreak caused the most recently discovered coronavirus, has changed the way the world community works, especially Indonesia. This new way of work is called remote online work or working from home. This diseases has changed people's culture by switching to digital culture using information technology. Information technology has several advantages because it can make people complete their work quickly, exibly and qualitatively. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method that aims to provide effective information about the impact of information technology on the performance of government employees during the Covid-19 pandemic. Research information was obtained through library research, observations and interviews with employees of the Environmental Service of Padang City, West Sumatra. The results of the study show that there is good impact of information technology on employee performance. Information Technology can improve employee performance because it enables the employees to work faster. This condition provides space for work collaboration, and works can be carried out far more effectively. During the Covid-19 pandemic where information technology is a vital necessity at work, all works can be done online or work from home so that employee performance can still be mantained. Since Information technology has no space and time limits, work during the COVID-19 pandemic can be accomplished anytime and anywhere.

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