Journal of Socialomics

Abstract

The Human Resource Development Strategies on Information Technology Semi-Professionals Adoption of the Local Government

Yen-Ching Ouyang and Te-Chun Lee

The technology acceptance model (TAM) has been applied in different contexts to investigate a wide range of information technologies (ITs), and a cumulative tradition has already been developed in this stream of research. Nevertheless, it was still needed to be empirically investigated for government organizations in order to make sure that different sample profiles would not have a negative effect on the findings. The objective of this research was to develop and test an integrated model of human resource management strategies in local government. The members of matrix structured team were semi-professionals on IT and were organized from different departments for introducing IT using. We discussed the work ability and working willingness as the independent variables and test the moderating effects of personal characteristics on the attitude of IT adoption. Forty-eight team members filled questionnaire. The empirical results based on moderated multiple regression (MMR) modeling approach to provide preliminary evidence supportive of the hypotheses advanced. Specifically, the IT experience and the work ability have interactive effect with adoption attitude. The results indicate that the IT experience plays a strategic role for adoption of IT. Finally, the implications for introducing IT to the local government are presented.