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Choreographing a System: Skill and Employability in Software Work

Abigail Marks

Heriot-Watt University

Dora Scholarios

University of Strathclyde

While software developers are typically associated with high-status, technical knowledge work, there is evidence of changing skills requirements within the industry. One notable feature is the increasing importance of social competencies, as well as technical skill, which have been proposed as a feature of many new economy occupations. This article examines how this change in skills in software work impacts on employability in the sector. Developers, managers and HR practitioners in four Scottish software organizations provide the empirical focus.

Key Words: employability • knowledge work • social competencies • software employment • technical skill

Economic and Industrial Democracy, Vol. 29, No. 1, 96-124 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0143831X07085141
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