Perception of employee’s on hcd practices in the Indian information technology industry
International Journal of Development Research
Perception of employee’s on hcd practices in the Indian information technology industry
Received 09th April, 2017; Received in revised form 24th May, 2017; Accepted 16th June, 2017; Published online 22nd July, 2017
Copyright ©2017, Boohene David and Maxwell Amita. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Technologies promoting essential economic activities are likely to be mobilized by highly skilled and human capital intensive companies. The present scenario as seen from the 2016-2017 annual report of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) indicates that the net addition to employment in the IT-ITES sector in India has been declining since 2013 although direct employment into the sector has been ascending since 2011. This study examines the contemporary employment scenario in the Indian IT-ITES sector and goes further to investigate the perception of employees on HCD Practices in the Indian IT industry specifically, the software, hardware and IT-ITES sectors as a point of reference to re-train and re-purpose employees in the fast changing technological milieu. Primary data was collected from (526) employees in IT corporations belonging to the Software, Hardware and IT-ITES sector in India. This served as a sample size from (34) IT companies in five major IT hubs in India. Secondary data on the employment scenario in the IT sector for the past six years from 2011 to 2017(estimated) was obtained from the office of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in Delhi. Tukey HSD test was used to determine perception level of employees for HCD Practices in the selected IT sectors. The study revealed a high level of perception for HCD Practices amongst employees in the Software and Hardware sector of the Indian IT Industry. However there was a low perception level of HCD Practices in the IT-ITES sector. Also, there was a significant difference in the level of perception for HCD Practices for the different age categories of employees in the Indian Software, Hardware and IT-ITES sectors as per this study. To serve as a precursor for retraining employees in the face of automation further studies can be conducted to ascertain the particular age categories that have low level of perception for HCD Practices.
