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Information culture is an important component of an organization. This paper focuses on the information culture of higher education institutions (HEIs) in Estonia and reports the results of a study that aimed to explore the relationship between information culture including information literacy, information management and satisfaction with job and leadership as well as self-reported individual performance. Factor analysis revealed three types of information culture: (1) integrated; (2) pro-active; and (3) informal. A significant correlation was found between information culture with integrated information sharing and use (type 1), and satisfaction with job and leadership as well as self-reported individual performance. It could be suggested that the construct of information culture consisting of values, norms and behaviours related to information sharing and use in organisations is a valuable construct in analysing information environments and relations with job satisfaction, leadership style and self-reported performance of HEIs in Estonia.
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Lauri, L., Heidmets, M., Virkus, S. (2015). Information Literacy and Information Culture in Higher Education Institutions in Estonia. In: Kurbanoglu, S., Boustany, J., Å piranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Roy, L. (eds) Information Literacy: Moving Toward Sustainability. ECIL 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 552. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28197-1_51
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