An Exploratory Study on the Student Acceptance of the Work System Method as Part of the Systems Analysis and Design Course

The Work System Method (WSM) has been getting wider attention by the Information Systems research community recently. Its potential for improving the practicing and teaching of Systems Analysis and Design (SA&D) is one of the directions of growing research associated with it. This paper provides the results from an exploratory research on the acceptance of the work system method by students in an undergraduate SAD course at a public US university. The research questions relate to the revealing of student perceptions about the WSM training received during the course, overall student opinion of WSM, the impact of some characteristics of the WSM on success in SA&D, the physical accessibility of the WSM and whether the students would use WSM even if it was not required. The initial results are promising regarding the relevance of WSM for teaching systems analysis and its acceptance by students.