Predicting Hiring Managers’ Intentions to Use It Certification
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Individuals applying for jobs differ in terms of knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics, which challenges managers to assess the capabilities of candidates. Certification is used in some Information Technology fields to ensure that job candidates possess certain knowledge and proficiencies. This research investigates the factors that influence a given hiring manager's intention to use IT certification as part of employee selection. The researchers used the Theory of Planned Behavior to investigate relationships proposed in a grounded theory of the phenomenon. Data were collected through a paperbased survey from managers in the Carolinas concerning their intentions to hire in the next six months. Hierarchical regression was used to investigate relationships between constructs. Attitude and subjective norm are significantly correlated with intention while perceived behavioral control is not. Both affect (emotion) and cognition are significantly correlated with attitude. These findings add to our understanding of the usage of IT certification in hiring decisions and provide suggestions for future work.
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