The thesis concentrates on unintended consequences of putting emphasis on education in the current society and their impacts on labour market success of school graduates as well as on fulfilment of employers needs from the perspective of occupying job positions in accordance with the demographic aging of the population. The thesis is trying to answer the question, if education has an adequate influence on the social mobility as it was in the recent past. The author is also trying to suggest possible solutions of the situation occurred on the labour market from the viewpoint of the qualified labour shortage with lower educational level, especially in the secondary sector. Possibilities are seen in the consistent assertion of the LLL conception, increasing the relevance of the education content and adapting to the changing requirements of qualifications through of cooperation between schools and employers. Last but not least the thesis also draws attention to the need of relevant information about the labour market development and chances of graduates to find a job in the chosen field.

In the presented dissertation, there is, based on a given topic “Internet tools for lifelong learning in the IT sector”, expressed an appropriate coverage of created partial research tasks with an active solution of them at the Faculty of Business and Management, Brno University of Technology for branch Company Management and Economics, and that in accordance with the defined areas of research and publication activities. For systemic approach to the whole dissertation, it was defined area of theoretical perspectives and expressed methodology for addressing systemic models of education on Internet means and for that practical research work was chosen adaptable (“learning”) Company 1 as a reference (for solving individual practical research tasks) and a methodology of modern approach to modelling was created (“for modern management and information communication between systems”) and also modelling of a required adaptable (“directly also improving with modelling”) Internet (and intranet) environment of companies and its use in the process of lifelong learning of knowledge workers (“teachers”) of Company 1 and possible additional (“knowledge workers and users”) Company 2, 3, ..., m i.e. “businesses as other customers” and all that to actively create an adaptable and new space with the possible use of an evolutionary (“new and also modern and intelligent and self-learning”) means of information and communication technologies (ICT) both from the world and from the Czech Republic and especially new (and evolutionary perspective) Internet tools and resources for business management, lifelong learning in IT sector and necessary monitoring of demanded company's competitiveness operating in dynamically developing IT. By systemically solved modelling on computers, there is expressed an issue of appropriately selected internet tools in a competitive environment of companies, and also there is addressed by computer modelling a new approach to modelling leading to an anticipated modernization of modern electronic lifelong learning forms built on tools and resources of the Internet. The work also includes a creation of models on PCs allowing comparison of expected changes in competitiveness of companies reacting to the benefits of created methodology and that leads to an anticipated improvement in the quality of management and economics of companies in terms of relative improvement of their competitiveness. Solving of these modern issues is conducted based on an appropriate analysis of selected enterprises, corresponding to the solved topic and solved objectives of the work and also obtained information from publications in world information sources on the Internet and from virtual libraries of the world, publishing, seminars, proceedings and conferences. The results of system analytical approach to solving tasks and activities of the research work have been regularly published in articles of professional and peer-reviewed journals and also in conference contributions. In these research results, there is systematically expressed a new essence of solving interface of social and IT technical system with selected resources of internet tools for lifelong learning companies working in IT sector as a possible contribution into modern creation of self-learning organizations.

Обучение в течение всей жизни – пространство развития каждого человека, в связи с этим следует обратиться к данной теме с точки зрения психологических предпосылок. Обучение в разных формах понимается не только как социальная, профессионально-значимая функция, но и как атрибут личностного здоровья. Какая именно черта характера формирует потребность учиться у зрелого человека или препятствует этому? Изучается взаимосвязь выделенных переменных опросника «Оценка готовности к непрерывному обучению» со шкалами методик Баднера (толерантность к неопределенности) и Гослинга (открытость опыту, добросовестность, эмоциональная стабильность, экстравертность и дружелюбие). В онлайн-опросе приняли участие 65 человек в возрасте 40-55 лет со стажем работы не менее 10 лет. Магистерская диссертация состоит из введения, трех глав, заключения, списка литературы (104 источника) и приложений, включающих в себя бланки применявшихся методик, данные по ранним исследованиям. Объем магистерской диссертации без приложений составляет 97 страниц, на которых размещены 29 рисунков и 6 таблиц. Во введении раскрывается актуальность проблемы исследования, разработанность проблематики, ставятся цель и задачи исследования, определяются объект и предмет исследования, формулируется основная и конкретизирующие гипотезы, указываются методы и эмпирическая база. Первая глава включает в себя обзор иностранной и отечественной литературы по теме исследования: описание основных понятий и их характеристики. Выводы по первой главе представляют собой итоги по изучению теоретического материала. Вторая и третья главы посвящены эмпирической части исследования. В них представлено описание хода исследования и интерпретация полученных результатов. В заключении в обобщенном виде изложены результаты теоретической и эмпирической частей работы, а также выводы по выдвинутым гипотезам, обоснована практическая значимость исследования. В заключении показано, что наиболее тесно готовность к обучению в течение всей жизни связана с экстравертностью, открытостью опыту и дружелюбием. / Lifelong learning sustains an ongoing personal development and it should be analyzed with regard to its psychological premises. Any form of education not only enhances person's social and professional integration but also fosters his or her personal fulfillment and health. What personality trait forms or suppresses eagerness to learn at mature age? In this article we study the correlation between selected variables from «Life Long Learning Inventory» questionnaire and «Tolerance of ambiguity scale» developed by S.Budner (tolerance of ambiguity – novelty, complexity, or insolubility) and Ten-Item Personality Inventory-(TIPI) by S.D.Gosling (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, openness to experiences). 65 respondents at the age between 40 and 55 having over 10 years of work experience participated in the online questionnaire. The master's thesis consists of an introduction, three chapters, conclusion, a list of literature (104 sources) and applications, including forms of applied techniques, the classifier of associative connections, early research data. The volume of the master's thesis is 97 pages, on which are placed 29 figures and 6 tables. The introduction reveals the relevance of the research problem, the development of the problem, the purpose and objectives of the research, the object and subject of the research, the main hypothesis are formulated, the methods and the empirical base are specified. The first chapter include a review of foreign and domestic literature on the topic of the study: a description of the basic concepts and their characteristics. The first chapter include a review of foreign and domestic literature on the topic of the study. Conclusions on the first chapter are the results of the study of theoretical material. The two and three chapter is devoted to the empirical part of the study. On the basis of the obtained data, the developed models of intelligence and performance are demonstrated. In conclusion, the results of the theoretical and empirical parts of the work, as well as conclusions on the hypotheses put forward, the practical significance of the study. The results of our research demonstrate that readiness to acquire new knowledge at mature age is closely connected to extroversion, openness to experience and agreeableness.

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Organisations of different type and legal status engage in senior education in the Czech Republic. Civil society organisations available online are not the dominant providers of educational courses and activities for seniors in the Czech Republic. Civil society organisations represent 17 % of all providers of educational courses available online. Six civil society organisations engaged in senior education were found in the region Vysočina. Participants of the educational courses consider all activities practised in these courses to be education because they learn new skills there. They appreciate these courses for the education itself, for meaningful free time spending and for the opportunity of active life even in the time of senescence. For nearly the most important point considered by the participants so as the organisators is connecting and broadening of social contacts of the participants and creating of social network. This can be considered for the most distinct manifestation of civil society concerning senior education.