scholarly journals Efficiency of Managerial Work and Performance of Managers: Time Management Point of View

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Zuzana Lušňáková ◽  
Silvia Dicsérová ◽  
Mária Šajbidorová
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Managerial Work ◽  
Use Of Time ◽  
Systematic Training ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
And Performance

Appropriate time management allows individuals to achieve work and personal goals, plan tasks, set priorities, eliminate disruptive effects, and increase work efficiency and productivity. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of managerial work and the performance of managers of food companies in the V4 countries (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland) from the perspective of time management principles, point out the shortcomings and reserves that can ensure time management, and propose solutions to improve business practice. We set five research assumptions in order to evaluate the situation comprehensively. A survey carried out from September 2020 to January 2021 involved 1588 managers working at various levels of management. Statistical methods and tests were used for data processing and their subsequent evaluation. The data were processed using Microsoft Excel 2016, the statistical software SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1, and XLSTAT. The analysis showed that three-quarters of managers are aware of the value of their time. More than half of the managers involved try to regularly review their agenda in order to identify gaps in the use of time and to avoid repeating unproductive practices. Only half of the managers make arrangements not to think about work in their free time. The managers spend the most time in their work dealing with administration. Intensifying the implementation of ICT (information and communication technologies) in the work of the manager has the effect of increasing the efficiency of the division and use of working time of managers. Based on our findings, we consider the goal orientation, positive motivation, systematic training, and development of managers as a key prerequisite for efficiency of managerial work and performance of managers and their effective time management.

Defrag and reboot? Consolidating information and communication technology research in I-O psychology

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinyu (Judy) Hu ◽  
Larissa K. Barber ◽  
YoungAh Park ◽  
Arla Day
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Technology Experience ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Role Of Information

AbstractSeveral decades of research have addressed the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology. However, segmented research streams with myriad terminologies run the risk of construct proliferation and lack an integrated theoretical justification of the contributions of ICT concepts. Therefore, by identifying important trends and reflecting on key constructs, findings, and theories, our review seeks to determine whether a compelling case can be made for the uniqueness of ICT-related concepts in studying employee and performance in I-O psychology. Two major themes emerge from our review of the ICT literature: (a) a technology behavior perspective and (b) a technology experience perspective. The technology behavior perspective with three subcategories (the “where” of work design, the “when” of work extension, and the “what” of work inattention) explores how individual technology use can be informative for predicting employee well-being and performance. The technology experience perspective theme with two subcategories (the “how” of ICT appraisals and “why” of motives) emphasizes unique psychological (as opposed to behavioral) experiences arising from the technological work context. Based on this review, we outline key challenges of current ICT research perspectives and opportunities for further enhancing our understanding of technological implications for individual workers and organizations.

scholarly journals Business ideas in start-ups

2020 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 01063
Author(s):  
Štefan Slávik
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Development Cycle ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Start Ups

Start-up is a modern entrepreneurship form designed to realize original business ideas, mostly based on new technologies and the Internet. It evolves in the development cycle, which is determined by the business idea development cycle and the financing cycle. The purpose of the paper is to describe and analyse the business idea. The business idea is characterized by its content, circumstances of its origin, degree of originality and evidence of this originality. Start-ups are dominated by business ideas based on the application of information and communication technologies, the business idea is most often created by combining professional and business experience, but its originality is from the international point of view only average and the level of legal protection is quite rare.

scholarly journals CONTENT AND DIRECTIONS OF ANTIBULING POLICY AT SCHOOL

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 18-27
Author(s):  
Yulia Udovenko ◽  
◽  
Evgeniya Gladyshko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Bullying Policy ◽  
Official Position ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Information And Communication

The article is devoted to the problem of bullying and anti-bullying policy in school institutions. The problem of bullying, from a scientific point of view, began to be studied at the end of the 20th century. Today, this issue is covered in all laws and programs related to ensuring a safe educational environment for participants in the educational process. Bullying, as a social and pedagogical problem, has been actively studied since the beginning of the development of information and communication technologies, which contributed to the rapid dissemination of not only verbal, but also media information: photo and video facts about manifestations of bullying between children. The article presents the results of the research "Unicef", "La Strada-Ukraine", which indicate the prevalence of the phenomenon of bullying among children. The essence of the concept of "bullying" is revealed, as well as categories that are close in meaning: "violence", "aggression", "bullying", "bullying", "conflict". The structural components of the roles of the bullying process are described: initiators or offenders, helpers of offenders, defenders of the victim, victims and observers. The article provides data on anti-bulging programs in foreign countries and focuses on the problem of anti-bulging policy in educational institutions of our country. Three main approaches that make up the anti-bullying policy of schools are analyzed: disciplinary, restorative and an integrated approach, which is implemented using two directions: managerial and educational. The directions of anti-bullying policy at school are presented, namely managerial and educational. The managerial direction is organized and implemented by the head of the educational institution. The constituent components of activities in this area are an analysis of the current situation in an educational institution, the development of an official position of the institution regarding bullying and informing all participants in the educational process about it, the development of rules of conduct for all participants in the educational process and informing about them, defining the responsibilities and responsibilities of participants educational process in relation to the rules of safe behavior in an educational institution, instructing employees, students and parents. Whereas the educational direction is characterized by informing, explaining, developing the skills of tolerance and non-violent communication of all participants in the educational process.

scholarly journals PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS IN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES: QR CODING IN STUDENT LEARNING

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (57) ◽  
pp. 33-35
Author(s):  
A. Hafiiak ◽  
O. Shefer ◽  
E. Borodina ◽  
S. Alyoshin
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Quality Level ◽  
It Education ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Student Training ◽  
Definition Of

The article explores modern information and telecommunication technologies, which are the basis of information processes in education. The fundamentals of improving the quality of student training from the point of view of the development of a vocational education system are investigated. The authors explore the definition of an innovative educational environment. It is proved that professional IT education is the basis for improving its quality level and has certain advantages over other types of knowledge, providing flexibility due to modern technological features, including the use of QR coding information.

Methodological Bases of Competence Preferences Necessary for a Vocal Teacher in the Formation of Vocal and Auditory Skills in a Modern Dissonant Sound Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-92
Author(s):  
S.S. Aksenova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Vocal Pedagogy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
New Information ◽  
Sound Environment ◽  
Information And Communication

in the modern world, the problems of improving vocal pedagogy and methodological developments in the field of training future singers and vocal teachers should be considered not only from the point of view of the traditional classical school of singing described in the works of famous scientists, but also together with new information and communication technologies that have already firmly entered various fields of pedagogy and mass culture. It will be a mistake to oppose the fundamental vocal teaching methodology, which gives new generations of students a solid basis for the formation of vocal competencies, new pedagogical approaches in the field of hearing development using modern information and digital technologies. The task of modern methodist scientists is to combine classics and modernity, traditions and innovations in order to form new competencies among vocalist students, future performers and teachers.

Institutional Isomorphism and New Technologies

2011 ◽  
pp. 2066-2071 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Amoretti ◽  
Fortunato Musella
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Institutional Isomorphism ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Cognitive Frames ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Information And Communication

Technological factor is mainly underestimated in the literature on institutions and organizations. Although organizational studies and information technology are disciplines dedicated respectively to studying socio-political and technical aspects of organizing, cross-fertilization among such fields has remained quite limited. Only rarely the variable of technology has been interpreted as a crucial element for explaining institutional uniformity. From a more general point of view, changing technical factors have been considered “relatively unimportant sources of organizational change in a mature organizational field” (Yang, 2003, p. 433). Only after the spread of the information and communication technologies (ICTs), a good number of studies has started to consider the relationships among information technology and organizational structure (Guthrie, 1999). Neo-institutional analysis on the use of information technology was mostly directed at showing how the embeddedness of organizational actors “in cognitive, cultural, social, and institutional structures influences the design, perceptions, and uses of the Internet and related [information technology]” (Fountain, 2001, p. 88). Therefore, it can been argued that most of the literature on this field concerns the way in which technology represents a social construct, because it shows that any technological application is strongly influenced by social aspects, such as cognitive frames, political culture, local traditions and so forth. Yet, a few contributions have been dedicated until now to investigate how institutions change through the introduction of new technologies. Although technological innovation is said to be the source of variation in a given institutional context, as “new technology offers new possibilities for solving problems [and] new practices arise when innovative organizations take advantage of its novel benefits” (Leblebici, 1991, p. 335), little attention is focused on technological variables. Despite such disregard, in the following article some examples of the strategic use of information and communication technologies will be included, with specific reference to pressures exerted by ICTs for producing “institutional isomorphism.”

(De)Constructing Bridges for Development and Innovation: Intercultural Concerns Regarding ICT4D

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (13) ◽  
pp. 1921-1932
Author(s):  
Laura Soledad Norton
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Information And Communication

The purpose of this paper is to offer some critical comments about the collected articles, by introducing a point of view inspired by cultural psychology concerning information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) research issues. This conception of ICTs highlights three fundamental aspects: the role of artifacts in mediating action that are culturally meaningful; the agency of people, and thus their responsibility as social actors; and the need for highly contextualized analysis. In the article, I will read these three points through the lenses of cultural psychology.

scholarly journals Information and Computer Technologies as a Research Tool in the Works of Historians of Central Asia

2020 ◽  
pp. 102-106
Author(s):  
R.T. Elemanova
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
Computer Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication

The article considers the possibilities of using information and computer technologies in historical research in Central Asia. Today, when there are discussions among Asian historians about a differentiated approach to the study of history and a desire to preserve the traditional directions of historical science that were laid down in the last century, there is an urgent need to use an interdisciplinary approach. The development of historical geoinformatics at the present stage can be identified that is continuously associated with the level of informatization of society, when information and communication technologies have become an integral part of everyday life, a change in the theory and methodology of historical science. Revolutionary changes in the theoretical development of an understanding of the essence of historical processes naturally led to a change in the methodology of history. The problem of information and computer technologies efficiency, in particular geoinformation, in scientific historical research, from a theoretical and methodological point of view is being posed and solved. Since the mid-1990s, the main emphasis has been shifted to the use of multimedia tools and methods and the use of global communications - the Internet. For the preservation, presentation of cultural heritage is an urgent task, the solution of which in a century of rapidly developing information and communication technologies is impossible without the use of new information technology.

scholarly journals Reflection on consumers in e-Commerce

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos González-Castolo ◽  
Silvia Ramos-Cabral ◽  
Omar Alí Zatarain-Durán
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Specific Area ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Consumer Service ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Web ◽  
The Ideal

This paper presents a reflection on the ideal requirements that a provider should offer to the consumer. Traditionally, studies are made to improve products and/or services, but the consumer's point of view is disesteemed. This work approaches the commerce scenario from an approach where the consumer is the protagonist. The context of analysis is electronic commerce (e-commerce), however, the approaches can be extended to traditional commerce. It should be noted that commerce can be classified as traditional or electronic. In the specific area of ecommerce, it is known that the relevant defining characteristic is the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). Due to the above, the consumer has some particularities that are considered to present the approach. It is about identifying the elements for ecommerce improvement. Improving the sale-purchase cycle that includes improving marketing, improving consumer service, improving the product and/or service offered, and the improvement of the WEB portal.

scholarly journals FACTORES QUE INFLUYEN EN LA APERTURA A LAS TIC Y CAPACIDAD DE INNOVACIÓN EN PYMES DE COCHABAMBA DEL SECTOR INDUSTRIAL

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (23) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Lus Stephanie Nogales Ballesteros ◽  
Samuel Israel Goyzueta Rivera
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Innovation Capacity ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Innovation Practices ◽  
Structural Equations Model

Actualmente, es imposible pensar en la existencia de una empresa sin el uso de tecnologías, además la innovación se ha convertido en un factor determinante de la competitividad y desempeño en una empresa, asegurando a mediano y largo plazo su permanencia en un mercado competitivo y  con necesidades cambiantes.  La presente investigación tiene por objetivo determinar los factores que influyen en la apertura a la adopción de tecnologías de información y comunicación (TICs) y la capacidad de innovación en la pequeña y mediana empresa de Cochabamba, específicamente en el sector industrial. Los datos estadísticos estudiados son el resultado del total de 38 encuestas realizadas a gerentes y ejecutivos que desempeñan su función en una empresa PyMe, en ese sentido, se pudo dar respuesta a las hipótesis planteadas y lograr los objetivos específicos de la investigación.  El análisis de los datos se hizo a través de la técnica de mínimos cuadrados parciales, perteneciente al modelo de ecuaciones estructurales, mediante el programa SmartPLS.  Los resultados obtenidos sugieren que, si bien el uso de las TIC y las prácticas de innovación en empresas PyMe de Cochabamba no afectan significativamente en su desempeño, son imprescindibles para asegurar su permanencia en el mercado. Palabras clave: Innovación, Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación, Desempeño, Investigación y Desarrollo, Empresa PyMe. ABSTRACTNowadays it is impossible to think about the existence of an enterprise without the use of technologies, in addition, innovation has become a determining factor of competitiveness and performance in a company, ensuring in the medium and long term its permanence in a competitive environment and with changing needs. The present research aims to determine the factors that influence the openness to the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the innovation capacity in small and medium-sized companies in Cochabamba, specifically in the industrial sector. The statistical data studied are the result of a total of 38 surveys carried out to managers and executives who perform their role in a SME company, that´s why, it was possible to respond the hypotheses raised and achieve the specific objectives of the research. Data analysis was done through the partial least squares technique, belonging to the structural equations model, using the SmartPLS program. The results obtained suggest that although the use of ICT and innovation practices in SMEs in Cochabamba are not significant in their performance, they are essential to ensure their permanence in the business world.Keywords: Innovation, Information and Communication Technologies, Performance, Research and Development, SME Company.

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