Abstract

This paper attempts to bridge the MIS professionals' identity of project teams with their stress and satisfaction toward jobs. Significant relationships were found between the three. In particular, those who rated themselves with a more positive perception of their teams over various attitude variables, including team-cohesion, -commitment, and -participation, also rated significantly lower in the various items of job stress and higher in those of job satisfaction. The result also indicates that individual attributes (gender, personal background and status) and task characteristic (i.e., the participating stage) may affect IS professionals' identity of project teams. One may conclude from the current findings that the job- stress and satisfaction of MIS people can be improved through an enhancement of their attitudes toward the IS project teams.