Organizations Investment in the Business Oriented LMS and Employees’ Learning Support

The aim of this paper is to analyse scope and reach of large number of different lifelong learning programmes in the private higher education institution which predominantly performs programmes in the field of ICT for various companies’ employees throughout the Republic of Croatia. With an aim to better understand our clients’ needs due to the education and training programmes, a questionnaire was conducted and distributed to a large sample of companies’ employees - our trainees N: 386. The subject of the research and distributed questionnaire was to analyse in what extent companies' investment in their own e-learning systems and institutional support for their employees or they, rather outsource e-learning training and support at other educational service providers. It was noticeable that large companies prefer to send their employees on the programmes and training at external institutions rather than invest in development of their own e-learning system. Authors were interested to seek out whether this practice has statistical significance, and if so, whether this was related to the fact that they should invest more to ensure mentors/teachers to guide the employees/participants throughout the e-learning process or can these e-courses be performed without mentoring. The paper presents statistical interpretation of the data with concrete hypotheses confirmation and/or rejection.