Soft Skills as a Tool for Interdisciplinary Teamwork of Product Designers
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23410%2F20%3A43961393" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23410/20:43961393 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://papers.iafor.org/proceedings/conference-proceedings-ecah2020/" target="_blank" >https://papers.iafor.org/proceedings/conference-proceedings-ecah2020/</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Soft Skills as a Tool for Interdisciplinary Teamwork of Product Designers
Original language description
The results of the work of product designers are increasingly not possible without teamwork and especially interdisciplinary teamwork. Product designers often have a key role to play in such teams, and in addition to hard skills, they also need the soft competencies needed to interact in a team in order to be successful in their work. This study aimed to map the most important soft skills needed for interdisciplinary teamwork. 98 students in the field of product design and at the same time professional product designers took part in the international research. The research was based on the principle of a case study with journalist’s investigative methods in combination with qualitative and quantitative research and comparative analysis of documents. These documents have identified the most necessary soft skills for product designers in the last five years. In the next phase of the study, the research work was focused on building a competency model of the most preferred soft competencies, which are: teamwork, problem solving, communication and time management. The competency model could guide the preparation of educational courses and workshops, in which soft competencies would be developed for students in the field of product design, but also for professional designers. The reason is the clear need for good acquisition and use of competencies that will enable better interdisciplinary teamwork.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60401 - Arts, Art history
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Article name in the collection
The European Conference on Arts & Humanities2020
ISBN
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ISSN
2188-1111
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Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
31-40
Publisher name
The International Academic Forum 2020, The International Academic Forum (IAFOR)
Place of publication
Nagoya, Aichi
Event location
London
Event date
Jul 24, 2020
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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