A Study of the Relationship between User Attitudes and the Success of the MAJCOM and AFRCE Work Information Management System.
Abstract
The Work Information Management System (WIMS) is a $95 million project to improve operational and management control at Engineering and Services organizations of the USAF. Early implementation of part of this project at installations in the U.S. and Europe provided the opportunity to study its implementation success. This study is concerned with the factors that promote and jeopardize the success of WIMS. It determines the relationship between user attitudes and WIMS success, and explores how they are affected by the user's location, age, education, and prior computer experience. Using a mailed questionnaire to collect data from 400 respondents in the implementing organizations, and using factor analysis and regression analysis to analyze the data, the researchers found several significant relationships. Positive relationships were found between WIMS success and the user's attitudes about how WIMS improves job performance and how urgent WIMS was. Education of users was found to positively affect one's attitude about sense of urgency but to negatively affect WIMS success and one's attitude about job performance.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1984
- Accession Number
- ADA146956
Entities
People
- F. W. Nightengale
- K. W. Moschner
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology