Agile and Attached: The Impact of Agile Practices on Agile Team Members’ Affective Organisational Commitment

The current shortage of information systems (IS) specialists is leading to a strongly competitive labour market for the IT workforce. Technology companies need opportunities to prevent high replacement costs and knowledge loss by strengthening the affective organisational commitment (affective OC) of their employees. Using structural equation modelling, we investigate the influence of agile information systems development (ISD) on team members’ affective OC. Our results demonstrate that agile project management (APM) positively predicts affective OC directly as well as indirectly via team members’ job autonomy (JA) and their supervisors’ support (SS). Our study gives empirical evidence on the relationship between agile ISD practices and affective OC and provides implications how to successfully leverage team members’ affective OC. For practitioners, our research expounds why and how agile ISD is a suitable instrument to transform leadership culture within the company so as to raise affective OC beyond the IT workforce.     «

The current shortage of information systems (IS) specialists is leading to a strongly competitive labour market for the IT workforce. Technology companies need opportunities to prevent high replacement costs and knowledge loss by strengthening the affective organisational commitment (affective OC) of their employees. Using structural equation modelling, we investigate the influence of agile information systems development (ISD) on team members’ affective OC. Our results demonstrate that agile pr...     »