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Influence of ICT on working style used within frames of Lifelong Education

Tatjana Šepić Ivan Pogarčić

Sanja Raspor

The Polytechnic of Rijeka

INFuture2009: “Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing”, Zagreb, 4-6 November 2009

Some starting points Manner of Influence of ICT Implementation in all human

activities Indirect and/or direct influence of ICT in qualitative and

quantitative sense Education as a process of gaining knowledge, skills and

competencies Lifelong Education as a necessity ICT and web as a way to approach information and knowledge The approach in a specific moment and for a specific period of

time Manners and positions when ICT can influence the working style


What is a Style?

Style (lat. stilus - pencil) is way of expressing character by all those features that differ it from others

Style can be determined by an individual or a group or an organisation character that through its internal communications create its own character, a combination of individuals’ characters


Style and way of acquiring one

Style and mode – what is the difference? Mode as a way of realising one or more activities Mode is generally predefined and in a certain measure

determined Level of determination sets possibility of any kind of

variations - differences Variations have stochastic characteristics that can define

differences in the mode of performance Expressed differences in qualitative and quantitative

sense represent a style


About defining a style

Is there a way to define a style? Is it determined independently, or is it influenced by

someone or something else? What about style within the frame of Lifelong

Education? In which circumstances the working style changes?


Style and its indicators

Source: assessment.insala.com/centermark/Includes/ Sample Working Styles.pdf, (30.07.2009.)


Education and style

Work styles are connected to an individual’s behaviour or a group in general

The behaviour implies a pattern determined upon experiences or momentarily circumstances

Work styles are connected to acquired knowledge and skills

Work styles are connected to teaching and educational styles


The way of determining (work) styles

The crucial areas (from bottom to top): Professional Attitudes (Motivation, Persistence,

Conformity, Responsibility, Structure and Variety) Social Aspects (individual work, pair/group/team work

or inclination towards authority) Environmental Preferences (noise, lightening, temperature, type of furniture etc.)


The way of determining (work) styles

The crucial areas (from the bottom to the top): Physical Needs (mobility during the work, intake and

specific part of day) Sensory Modalities (listening, visualisation, tactile and

kinetic capabilities) Brain Processing (reflexive and impulsive mode of

working and decision making)


Starting assumptions ICT influences educational style through different modes of e-

Learning Information science knowledge increases tendency towards usage

of ICT in education and work More intensive usage of ICT in all modes of business is an

imperative of adjustment to new working conditions – PC on the work place

ICT application increases and improves possibility of profession identification or adjustment to the present needs

ICT ensures potential independence of place and time of executing work assignments

ICT allows virtualisation of work and work place


Caracteristics of examinees Research has been conducted using a questionnaire on a

sample of 100 examinees. The examinees have been questioned via e-mail, providing

anonymous answers to 20 questions. They were familiar to the pollsters but the questionnaire

itself was anonymous. Questions have been grouped according to six crucial fields Goal of the research is to confirm starting assumptions and

define factors within individual crucial area that will imply more significant influence of ICT.


Objective disadvantages of the questionnaire

Relatively small group of examinees Professional heterogeneity of group Assumption of developed ICT infrastructure Questions and answers can be inadequately elaborated

considering heterogeneity of group


Subjective disadvantages of the questionnaire

Pollsterser familiar with the work environment and personally know the larger part of the examinees

Data on environment and examinees are historical so the final judgement can seem subjective

Pollsters expected results that would imply participants’ readiness to anticipate the assignements and to define a style


Advantages of the investigation

Examinees are heterogeneous considering the age group Pollsters knew the majority of examinees as well as the

level of their information science education in fulfilling work assignments

Good infrastructural ICT backup and safety network Certain experience in usage of ICT and certain

information science education


Results of questionnaire I1. thin majority (45%) uses PC occasionally in fulfilling work

assignments 2. more than half of examinees (52%) believe that PC partially

strengthens their motivation in performing business assignments 3. the majority of examinees (63%) believe that PC does not influence

their commitment in performing business assignments 4. relative majority (41%) considers that PC helps them improve the

way of performing business activities 5. PC has no influence over “disciplinary rules” – (arrivals,

interruptions, departures) when performing business assignments (84%)

6. PC does not strengthen impression of responsibility (78%) (deadlines for finishing working assignments)

7. relative majority (49%) believes PC has no influence over the concept of working assignments (the question about preferred mode of making a business does not have an adequate answer and will be commented later).


Results of questionnaire II8. relative majority (44%) believes PC makes them more independent in

performing business assignments9. the majority of examinees (45%) uses the Internet for finding new

information about their own profession 10. the majority (89%) believes the usage of PC requires special spatial

and time conditions 11. the majority of examinees (57%) does not mind relatively quiet

music when performing their work 12. the majority of examinees (43% and 46%) claims that PC influences

their mobility and dependence upon location and time of performing work assignments

13. the majority (41%) cannot define whether there are some other conditions of physical type neither if there is a need for specific type of sense (53%) or kinetic requirements

14. the majority has a holistic approach (79%), but depending on the type of work they are willing to apply analytical approach (63%) while when making decisions most of them (82%) use combined approach.


Conclusion Nature of work specifies the way of performing business activities. An individual assigns to the mode of performing a business certain

attributes that give it a specific shape – style. The style depends upon the complexity of work since opportunities

for expressing a personality grow together with its complexity. Development of technique and technology enables liberation of

automation of businesses activity. Technique and technology create new possibilities and demand a

definition of new profession. The circumstancies ask for adjustments of educational system -

Lifelong Education. This research has been oriented toward individual and defining his/her

style by neglecting the influence of a group The future research in defining a working style and the influence of

ICT can be conducted in that direction.


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The endThank you for your attention!

Ivan Pogarčić[email protected]

Tatjana Šepić[email protected]

Sanja [email protected]

The Polytechnic of Rijeka, Business Department58 Vukovarska, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia

www.veleri.hr +385 51 35 37 77

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