Paul Waddington, marketing director at Reuters, told Silicon.com that researchers were shocked when they compiled the survey results: "The findings are totally contrary to what most people currently think and completely contrary to what we were...
This is demonstrated by Cranfield's figures, which show that 13 per cent of European CEOs and CFOs feel confident enough to choose a network management system without any input from the IT department.
However, it is backed up by other findings - 62 per cent of those surveyed said they strongly disagreed with the idea that 'the board frequently makes decisions about the business without considering the IT implications'.
Tech workers made up the second-largest group, after retail employees, and their input statistically mirrored the study's findings as a whole. Steve Gang, who led the study, said managers would be wise to look back at some of the workplace...
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College has concluded from these findings that managers who send aggressively worded emails to staff with the intention of improving their performance could actually make things worse.
Other findings in the salary survey included: The research comes as technology professionals are recovering from the recent economic downturn and facing the threat of offshoring, in which tasks like application development are sent to lower-wage...