| dc.contributor.advisor | Uys, Walter | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tjikongo, Ricardo | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-11-13T09:47:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-11-13T09:47:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3840 | |
| dc.description | Magister Commercii - MCom | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This study analyses the process that an IT refurbishing organisation used to socialise 15 IT graduates to the norms of the working world. In addition, 5 IT industry and 2 governmental agency interviews were used, and 60 online job advertisements were analysed to develop a system dynamic model. The main motivation for this study was to develop a system dynamics model of the graduate socialisation process, in an attempt to understand the cause and effect of
practical exposure, to bridge the IT skill-expectations gap. The main source of data for the model was from a-priori coding and content analysis of job adverts, online blogs and reports created by the students, supported by a review of the existing literature | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of the Western Cape | en_US |
| dc.subject | IT skills gap | en_US |
| dc.subject | IT expectations gap | en_US |
| dc.subject | System dynamics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Psychological contract | en_US |
| dc.subject | Knowledge creation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Organisational socialisation tactics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Socialisation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Academia | en_US |
| dc.subject | IT industry | en_US |
| dc.subject | Government | en_US |
| dc.title | Using a system dynamic approach to understanding the socialisation process of IT graduates | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.rights.holder | University of the Western Cape | en_US |
