Of races to run and battles to be won: Technical skill updating, stress, and coping of IT professionals
研究IT专业人员如何应对技术过时带来的压力，发现多数人视技能更新为压力源并采取多种应对策略，少数人则享受学习过程。
Abstract The expectation on today's information technology (IT) professionals to remain technically competent constitutes a significant source of stress. We examine how IT professionals experience and cope with the threat of technical obsolescence. Interestingly, not all IT professionals consider technology change a threat to their technical competence; some viewed updating as enjoyable and pursued learning for its own sake. However, most viewed the relentless demand to update their technical skills as stressful and used a variety of coping strategies to address this threat. Using this cognitive approach to technical obsolescence, we describe implications for managerial practice and delineate a direction for future research. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.