Authors:
Maria-Iuliana Dascalu
;
Camelia Delcea
;
Dragos Palaghita
and
Bogdan Vintila
Affiliation:
University of Economics, Romania
Keyword(s):
Assessment Systems, Project Management, e-Learning, Firms’ Financial Performance, Firms’ Non-financial Performance.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
;
Computer-Supported Education
;
e-Business
;
Education/Learning
;
e-Learning
;
e-Learning and e-Teaching
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Interactive and Multimedia Web Applications
;
Internet and Collaborative Computing
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
User Needs
Abstract:
Current paper studies the relationship between the use of e-assessment in the field of project management and firms’ performance. For this purpose, a case study was especially designed to explore whether the extensive use of an e-assessment application influences the financial and non-financial indicators of firms’ performance. The participants in the study were the users of the e-assessment application, employees working in Romanian firms, from IT, education and consulting business sector. The main findings of the study were the positive correlation between the considered performance indicators and companies’ growth. The study is presented in the framework of learning at work and highlights the importance of using information systems in enterprise environments, to develop professional competences and, thus, to achieve business excellence.