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From organizational (sub)cultures and collaborative information behaviour research to the implications for information system design

Collaboration in information usage and sharing is increasingly present in today's working life. This is the reason why (sub)cultures and different aspects of collaboration in organizational information behaviour should be monitored and managed. (Sub)Cultures and collaboration are important for two main reasons: to better support work related decision-making processes and to foster the development and improvement of information systems. This paper explores organizational (sub)cultures and work-related collaborative information behaviour in five Croatian subject cataloguing departments. The primary method of data collection for organizational (sub)culture detection was a paper questionnaire based on the „Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument” by Cameron and Quinn. Collaborative information behaviour was investigated by two methods: observation and simulated work task. The results showed current and preferred organizational (sub)culture and the way subject indexers experts collaborate, communicate and share information in order to perform their work-related tasks. Study also showed constrains and obstacles participants encountered while completing work tasks. These results were later used as implications for the development and design of information system with a goal of subject indexing performance improvement.

organizational (sub)cultures; collaborative information behaviour; work-related tasks; information system design

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