| dc.description.abstract | In case of problems, IT/IS professionals often dominated by logical thinking and supplemented by experience, trying to deal with problems. However, when computer systems crash, IT/IS departments in Taiwan’’s enterprises often attributed to superstition factor. For example: In order to avoid the computer no reason behind the crash, IT/IS departments will put some green packaging “Kuai Kuai” (A kind of snack, means obedient or well-behaved) nearby computers. But other color packaging will have the negetive effect. Another similar example is that: Don’t put “Want Want” (Means flourishing) Senbei nearby computers, because the computer will often go wrong, resulting in a flourishing population room.
Based on the above phenomenon, researchers had the research motivation: To place food in the room will easy breeding animals and increase the damage risk on equipments in the generator room. It should be common sense for IT/IS professionals, but why IT/IS departments in Taiwan’’s enterprises have this superstition behavior?
The main samples of this research are IT/IS professionals, and non-IT/IS professionals is in the control group. The study uses questionnaires to collect data, and use core self-evaluation theory to evaluating the personality characteristics of samples. The results showed that: Core self-evaluation have a significant effect on superstitious; Men, older age, higher management proportion job and longer working years, the core self-evaluation scores relatively high. Interestingly, although the superstition of IT/IS professionals than non-IT/IS professionals are low, IT/IS professionals have higher superstition level than non-IT/IS professionals for this superstitious behavior “put some green packaging Kuai Kuai nearby computers.”
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