Identifying the obstacles faced by software professionals and investigating the factors affecting their job engagement

Last years, the increases in employee turnover in software area brings new concerns to software professionals. This situation might be associated with engagement. The level of engagement affects the motivation of working of employees. This motivation affects productivity and quality. Therefore, engagement is an important concept in order to investigate the binding to a job. Software professionals encounter some problems in their working life frequently, and these problems affect their productivity. Investigating these problems and their effects on software professionals is an important issue for both organizations' and employees' in terms of improve the productivity. This study aims that investigate obstacles faced by software professionals and their relationships between job engagement. The study consists of two stages: Interview and Questionnaire. First of all, interviews were performed with 20 software professionals, and a questionnaire was applied to 314 software professionals. After that, the relationships between job engagement, job insecurity, career insecurity, coping styles and obstacles were analyzed.