Business Students’ Attitudes Towards and Competency in Information Technology

Volume: 9 Number: 2 December 1, 2010
  • İbrahim Halil Seyrek
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Business Students’ Attitudes Towards and Competency in Information Technology

Abstract

As a result of wide spread use of information technology (IT) in businesses, the need for IT-competent workforce is escalating. This need is also becoming very important for business graduates who can work in many areas and in different positions. The purpose of this study is to determine the IT competency of undergraduate business students and find out their attitudes towards IT since attitude is an important factor for the acceptance of IT. For this purpose, the attitudes of business students towards and competence in IT have been studied using data gathered from 394 undergraduate business students. As a result of the study, it has been found that most of the students own computers and have a good level of access to IT resources but their perceived level of competency is low. Moreover, female students compared to male students, students who don’t own a computer compared to students owning a computer and students who have high levels of access to IT compared to those with lower access show higher anxiety about IT, feel they have less control when they face a problem related to IT and have lower perceived level of IT competence. Also, depending on which year they are in, students show different attitudes towards IT and their competence increases as they become more senior. Finally, it has been found that different dimensions of attitude have effects on IT competence

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Turkish

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Authors

İbrahim Halil Seyrek This is me
Gaziantep Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, İşletme Bölümü, Şehitkamil, Gaziantep

Publication Date

December 1, 2010

Submission Date

December 1, 2010

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Year 2010 Volume: 9 Number: 2

APA
Seyrek, İ. H. (2010). İşletme Bölümü Öğrencilerinin Bilgi Teknolojilerine Yönelik Tutumları ve Yeterlik Düzeyleri. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 9(2), 387-406. https://izlik.org/JA74DZ47WF
AMA
1.Seyrek İH. İşletme Bölümü Öğrencilerinin Bilgi Teknolojilerine Yönelik Tutumları ve Yeterlik Düzeyleri. GAUN-JSS. 2010;9(2):387-406. https://izlik.org/JA74DZ47WF
Chicago
Seyrek, İbrahim Halil. 2010. “İşletme Bölümü Öğrencilerinin Bilgi Teknolojilerine Yönelik Tutumları Ve Yeterlik Düzeyleri”. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 9 (2): 387-406. https://izlik.org/JA74DZ47WF.
EndNote
Seyrek İH (December 1, 2010) İşletme Bölümü Öğrencilerinin Bilgi Teknolojilerine Yönelik Tutumları ve Yeterlik Düzeyleri. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 9 2 387–406.
IEEE
[1]İ. H. Seyrek, “İşletme Bölümü Öğrencilerinin Bilgi Teknolojilerine Yönelik Tutumları ve Yeterlik Düzeyleri”, GAUN-JSS, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 387–406, Dec. 2010, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA74DZ47WF
ISNAD
Seyrek, İbrahim Halil. “İşletme Bölümü Öğrencilerinin Bilgi Teknolojilerine Yönelik Tutumları Ve Yeterlik Düzeyleri”. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 9/2 (December 1, 2010): 387-406. https://izlik.org/JA74DZ47WF.
JAMA
1.Seyrek İH. İşletme Bölümü Öğrencilerinin Bilgi Teknolojilerine Yönelik Tutumları ve Yeterlik Düzeyleri. GAUN-JSS. 2010;9:387–406.
MLA
Seyrek, İbrahim Halil. “İşletme Bölümü Öğrencilerinin Bilgi Teknolojilerine Yönelik Tutumları Ve Yeterlik Düzeyleri”. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, vol. 9, no. 2, Dec. 2010, pp. 387-06, https://izlik.org/JA74DZ47WF.
Vancouver
1.İbrahim Halil Seyrek. İşletme Bölümü Öğrencilerinin Bilgi Teknolojilerine Yönelik Tutumları ve Yeterlik Düzeyleri. GAUN-JSS [Internet]. 2010 Dec. 1;9(2):387-406. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA74DZ47WF