Where Affinity Meets Practice: Emerging Communities of Practice to Meet the Needs of Korean IT Professionals

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dc.contributor.authorKim, Ada
dc.contributor.authorAnnabi, Hala
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-28T02:02:20Z
dc.date.available2017-12-28T02:02:20Z
dc.date.issued2018-01-03
dc.description.abstractThe growing Information Technology (IT) international workforce in the US has diverse social and professional needs. Organizations offer support structures such as Affinity Groups (AGs) and Communities of Practice (CoPs) to provide social support, learning and mentoring opportunities for their members. In this paper, we examine an emerging form of a grass-root inter-organizational groups that provide such support for Korean IT employees. The paper reports on the preliminary findings of a case study of Changbal (CB), a professional and social community that combines the characteristics of AGs and CoPs. Our research examines the characteristics of CB, how the community supports employees to transition to the US workplace, and differences between CB and other AGs or CoPs. The paper reports on the implications of this new form of community on our understanding of CoPs and AGs and practical implications of the IT industry.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2018.535
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-1-9
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/50424
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectKnowledge Flows, Transfer, Sharing and Exchange
dc.subjectAffinity Group, Community of Practice, Affinity Community of Practice, Korean IT workforce, Migrant IT Workforce
dc.titleWhere Affinity Meets Practice: Emerging Communities of Practice to Meet the Needs of Korean IT Professionals
dc.typeConference Paper
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