PIKACHUS

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Group members:

Petra Čož

Ines Đukić

Anja Melavc

Ana Radman

Petra Remec 

 

Distribution of roles:

Leader: Anja Melavc

Secretary: Petra Remec

Reporter: Petra Čož

Time-keeper: Ana Radman

Reserve: Ines Đukić

 

  

 

INFORMATION SOCIETY 

The impact of information technology on interpersonal relationships in organizations

 

Definition:

Nowadays it is all about technology, even more than that, it seems that our dependence on technology is increasing (the internet, cell phones, etc...). Technology obviously has a very big influence on people's lives and also often highly interferes with their privacy and intimacy and frequently influences on relationships between employees.

In information society we can notice a major impact of information technology on interpersonal relationships in organizations. Due to better understanding of information society and changes that came with new information technology and restructured ways of communicating at workplace we have to do a brief overview of the past also so we will present industrial society and try to show how the work was back then. In our empirical part of the project we will interview two enterprises that completely distinguish in their function and question them about communication within the organization and the information technology they use when communicating at workplace.

 

Since information technology became part of our everyday life, relations became more impersonal and there often appears problem in communication between people who are involved in organizations.

 

10 working questions:

1. What is information society? ANJA

2. When and how did information society emerge? ANJA

3. What are advantages and disadvantages of using information technology? ANA

4. What is the impact of information technology in the workflow in the organization? ANA

5. What is the dimension of the information technoloy in the organization? PETRA ČOŽ

6. Are the relations between people in the organization of information society more impersonal? INES

7. Are working conditions in the organization better than in the industrial society? PETRA REMEC

8. Is communication among organizations inside information society any easier? PETRA ČOŽ

9. What are the differences between information society and industrial society? PETRA REMEC

10. Are people more attracted by organization with modern information technology? INES

 

Glossary:

 

1. Inovacija- Innovation

2. Špekulacije- Speculation

3. Bruto nacionalni proizvod- Gross national product

4. Prevladovanje- Predominance

5. Opisuje- Outlines

6. Vidno- Prominent

7. Panoji- Hoardings

8. Nenatančno- Inexact

9. Presežek – Surplus

10. Odprava - Abolition

 

 

 

Literature:

 

- Berlogar, Janko. 1999. Organizacijsko komuniciranje: od konfliktov do skupnega pomena. Ljubljana: Manager. 

- Cheney, George, Lars T. Christensen, Theodore E. Zorn, Jr. and Shiv Ganesh. 2004. Organizational Communication in an Age of Globalization: Issues, Reflections, Practices. Prospect Heights, III.: Waveland Press.

- Daniels, Tom D., Barry K. Spiker and Michael J. Papa. 1997. Perspectives on organizational communication. Boston: McGraw-Hill.

- Ignjatović, Miroljub. 2002. Družbene posledice povečanja prožnosti trga delovne sile. Ljubljana: Fakulteta za družbene vede.

- Kavčič, Bogdan and Ivan Svetlik. 1979. Poglavja iz sociologije dela. Ljubljana: Delavska enotnost.

- Konsbruck, Robert L.. 2001. Impacts of Information Technology on Society in the new century. Accesible on: http://www.zurich.ibm.com/pdf/Konsbruck.pdf (8th of March 2011).

- Maver, Jasna. 2002. Informacijska tehnologija. Ljubljana: Filozofska fakulteta, Oddelek za bibliotekarstvo, informacijsko znanost in knjigarstvo.

- Moraze, Charles. 1976. Zgodovina človeštva: Devetnajsto stoletje 1775-1905, peta knjiga/drugi zvezek, tretji del. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije.

- Prunk, Janko. 2008. Racionalistična civilizacija: 1776 – 2000. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga.

- Slak Nastja: Elektronska pošta kot orodje neposrednega trženja. Magistrsko delo. Ljubljana: Ekonomska fakulteta, 2007. 5 str. Accesible on: http://www.cek.ef.uni-lj.si/magister/slak3251.pdf (8th of March 2011). 

- Webster, Frank. 2006. Theories of the information society. New York: Routledge.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 

Minutes of the 1st meeting "Problem Based Learning Project" 

       held on Thursday, 24th of February, 2011 at 11 AM at FDV library

 

• Present: Petra Čož, Ana Radman, Anja Melavc, Petra Remec, Ines Đukić     
• Absent: /
• Agenda:  1.) Group name          

                        2.) Distribution of tasks

                        3.) Any other business 

 

ITEM 1:

Discussion: We were deciding about team name, and we picked the name Pikachus.

 

ITEM 2:

Discussion: We discussed about defining team tasks. We decided on the basis of abilities of our group members.

Decision: Petra R. will be the chairperson, Petra Č. will choose the day and time of our meetings, Ana will be the minutes taker, Anja and Ines will be taking down notes of the meeting.

 

ITEM 3:

Discussion: We decided the time and the date of our next meeting.    

Decision: We agreed that our next meeting will be on Monday,  28th of February, 2011 at 12 AM at FDV library. 

 

 

Minutes taker: Ana

Chair: Petra R.

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 

Minutes of the 2nd meeting "Problem Based Learning Project"

held on Monday, 28th of February, 2011 at 12 AM at Ines´ place

 

• Present: Petra Čož, Ana Radman, Anja Melavc, Petra Remec, Ines Đukić     
• Absent: /
• Agenda:  1.) Division of roles         

                        2.) Choosing the topic

                        3.) Forming the definition

                        4.) Ten working questions

                        5.) List of literature

                        6.) Any other business 

 

ITEM 1:

Discussion: We were discussing about the division of roles and quickly came to conclusion on what contribution of each of the members of the group will be.

Decision: The leader will be Anja and the place of secretary will belong to Petra R.. Petra Č. will have the role of reporter, time-keeper will be Ana and Ines will be the reserve.

 

ITEM 2:

Discussion: First of all, we looked at the list of topics that we have got from Professor. We did not like first chosen topic, that was meaning of work, so we changed it.

Decision: Our topic will be Information society with focus on Slovenian society.

 

ITEM 3:

Discussion: At first we talked about information society and made a brainstorming on this topic. We talked about what it means for each of us and we found out that we all have very distinctive points of view. But we all agreed that there is a connection between information society and technology.

Decision: We all agreed that we will define the term "information society" properly. Technology can also be associated with development of countries, so we decided that we will explore whether Slovenia is an information society.

 

ITEM 4:

Discussion: Each member of the group came up with two questions and presented them to the others, so at the end together we set ten working questions.

Decision: We unanimously decided that Petra R. will put them in  the correct order and write them down.

 

ITEM 5:

Discussion: Ana reminded all of us that we could search for some appropriate literature on the internet, such as different books and articles, via Co-operative Online Bibliographic System & Services COBISS. We also looked at lists of literature that we made individually.

Decision: We found four useful sources and decided to use them in our project. We agreed that is quite enough for start.

 

ITEM 6:

Discussion: Ines proposed the date and place of our next meeting, other members of the group agreed.

Decision: Next meeting will be held on Monday, 7th of March, 2011 at 11 AM at Ines´ place.

 

 

Minutes taker: Ana

Chair: Petra R.

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

 

 

Minutes of the 3rd meeting "Problem Based Learning Project" 

       held on Monday, 7th of March, 2011 at 12 AM at Ines' place

 

 

• Present: Petra Čož, Ana Radman, Anja Melavc, Petra Remec, Ines Đukić     
• Absent: /
• Agenda:  1.) Discussion and distribution of tasks       

                        2.) Any other business

 

 

 

ITEM 1:

Discussion: We discussed how to improve our research questions and we distributed them among us. We divided them equally  - each of us got 2 research questions.

Decision:  We decided to distribute the questions as followed: Anja is in charge for the first two questions, Ana has to deal with the third and the fourth question, Petra Čož will present the answers to the fifth and the eight question, Ines will find the answers to the questions number six and ten and last but not least Petra Remec will do the seventh and the ninth question.

 

ITEM 2:

Discussion: We discussed the time, date and place of our next meeting.

Decision:  We all agreed that our next meeting will take place at FDV library on Wednesday, the 16th of March 2011, at 8.00 AM.

 

 

Minutes taker: Ana

Chair: Petra R.

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

 

 

 

 

Sources:

* Pic 1: Accesible on: http://chez.popo.blog.free.fr/index.php?post/2009/11/29/Images-du-mois-V (30th of March, 2011)