• Korea Journal of Hospital Management
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.170-187
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• 1996

This paper proposes a change process model for organization development in health care organizations and provide an OD case exemplar of nursing service unit at Virtual Hospital. This case exemplar was written in a narrative form rather than in an argumentative form as an embodiment of organization development process as is viewed from the cultural/interpretive perspective rather than from the technical/rational one. This case exemplar illustrates the change process which consists of four interrelated components: change intervention, organizational target variables, individual organizational member, and organizational outcomes. It also demonstrates the applicability of the narrative rationality which involves narrative probability and narrative fidelity to the story where the learning organization, shared governance, and empowerment are fully emplotted and enlivened. The implications for organization development in health care organizations are discussed.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.105-115
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• 2014

This paper aims to examine the mediating effects of psychological capital on the relationships between learning organization and innovative behavior. 310 sheets of questionnaires were gathered from the organizational members of the companies in 5 cities, including Seoul and Pohang and analysed using structural equation modelling technique. The results show followings: First, the human factor of learning organization has a significant influence to the innovative behavior and the psychological capital. Second, structural factor of learning organization has a significant influence to the psychological capital but does not have a significant influence to the innovative behavior. Third, the mediating effect of psychological capital has a significant partial effect between human factor of learning organization and innovative behavior, and full effect between structural factor of learning organization and innovative behavior. The results of this study implies that some guideline could be used in promoting learning organization and making implementing strategy.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.73-86
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• 2018

An analysis of Airbnb and Kozaza will show how valuable and rare resource can have an impact on company performances. Airbnb applied the sharing economy platform, and this business model had disrupted the hospitality industry. Thus, this paper will investigate a Korean company called Kozaza which had benchmarked Airbnb. Furthermore, it will apply the theory of VRIO framework, which consists of how valuable, rare, costly to imitate (imitability), and organization (exploited by the organization) to find competitiveness of Kozaza in the hospitality industry. Thus, it will attempt to show that Kozaza's business model of utilizing the unused resource of Hanok (traditional Korean house) and partnerships with Hanokstay, Seoul Metropolitan Government and Soul Tourism Organization and others have enhanced their resource and capability to strengthen their business model. Furthermore, this research will explore how Kozaza can competitively be successful in the future.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.563-574
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• 2002

Purpose : This study was designed to compare importance of the types of leadership-followership combination in the nursing organization. Method : The subjects of this study were nurses working in the hospital. They were recruited 490 from three medical centers. Data were collected by using self-reported questionnaires from April 8th to 18th, 2002. Result : The results were as follows; 1) It appeared that the most important type of leadership-followership combination for job satisfaction in the nursing organization was the transformational leadership-effective follower, however the most important type of leadership-followership combination for organizational commitment was the transformational leadership-the conformist. 2) According to analysis of partial correlational coefficient to compare the importance of variables, the leadership-followership combination type was the more important than other variables: education, age, duration of job, religion, marriage. Conclusion : With these findings, it was found that the most proper type of leadership-followership combination in nursing organization was the transformational leadership-effective follower for job satisfaction and the transformational leadership-the conformist for organizational commitment. So these results will be used to develop a more effective staffing management strategies to improve the effectiveness of nursing organization.

• Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.127-131
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• 2009

Hydrogels for medical devices such as hydrophilic dressing, moisturizing healing band, hydrophilic intravenous catheter and soft contact lens were evaluated for their cytotoxicity according to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) procedures. To test indirect cytotoxicity of hydrogel products, dissolution medium and dissolution condition were selected based on the guideline for medical devices. Cytotoxicity was low in all the case of hydrogel products. Soft contact lens showed no significant difference in dissolution between complete medium and saline. Currently, there is no specific guidelineto test hydrogel for medical devices in Korea with consideration of characteristics of hydrogel. Thus, proper method of cytotoxicity evaluation should be selected depending on the characteristics and usages of hydrogels for medical devices.

• The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.1-14
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• 2016

Objectives : The aim of this study is to understand the antecedents of trust with regard to organization and interpersonal trust among the employees of a hospital organization. Methods : Data were collected from 942 employees who work at ten hospitals of Seoul in other cities in Korea. Collected data were analyzed using SPSS Ver. 18.0 and AMOS Ver. 18.0 and by a frequency analysis, t-test, ANOVA, and regression analysis. Results : The main finding here was that the trust of hospital employees is significantly affected by fairness, consideration, morality, competence, and social responsibility. Conclusions : This result implies that hospital administrators should endeavor to improve the level of trust of among the employees of their organization and in therir coworkers through a fair reward system, an ethical management philosophy, by instilling a high competency level compared to other hospitals, and by ensuring high levels of social responsibility.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.164-170
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• 2019

This paper discusses the characteristics of the fire service organization structure in the Republic of Korea. The subjects of the study were selected by the fire service organization consisting of public firefighters in the Republic of Korea. The characteristics of the fire service organization structure (complexity, centrality, and officiality) were confirmed by various articles and previous references. The fire service organization showed a mechanical structure and bureaucratic organization. The levels of complexity, centrality, and officiality in the characteristics of fire service organization structure were higher than those of a general administration organization or company organization. In conclusion, this paper contributes to the development of fire service organization theory by confirming the characteristics of fire service organization structure.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.33-58
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• 2007

Quiet often, an organization tries to grapple with inconsistent and partial information to generate relevant information to support decision making and action. As such, an organization scans the environment interprets scanned data, executes actions, and learns from feedback of actions, which boils down to computational interpretations and learning in terms of machine learning, statistics, and database. The ExOM proposed in this paper is geared to facilitate such knowledge discovery found in large databases in a most flexible manner. It supports a broad range of learning and classification styles and integrates them with traditional database functions. The learning and classification components of the ExOM are tightly integrated so that learning and classification of objects is less burdensome to ordinary users. A brief sketch of a strategy as to the expressiveness of terminological language is followed by a description of prototype implementation of the learning and classification components of the ExOM.

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.77-88
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• 2007

This study is to apply of AHP to the performance management of university organization. Especially, in the present study, the authors modeled performance evaluations for S university administration hierarchically and analyzed the weights of those. The domains of performance evaluations were divided in five domains: strategy, resource management, process, finance management, and customer management, referred to the viewpoints of BSC. The results of analysis revealed that strategy was the most important element of evaluation in the first stage and except for strategy and finance management which consist of the single element of evaluation respectively in the second stage, the efficiency of administration supporting service was the important element of evaluation. The weights of performance evaluations, however, revealed in different as the class of position. Finally this study showed that the weights of performance evaluations computed in the present study can be used as those of evaluation indices for S university administration.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.265-275
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• 2006

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify and to investigate the nursing organizational culture. Method: A descriptive correlational study was conducted with convenience sample of 448 staff nurses who were working for six general hospitals located in Seoul, Province of Gyeonggi and Province of Chung-cheong. The period of data collection took over 5 months between August and December. Organization Culture Questionnaire developed by Lee (2001) were used to measure nursing organizational culture. Collected data were analysed on SPSS Win 12.0. Result: The meta culture of the nursing organizations was the conservative culture. The cultural pattern of nursing organizations was classified into three patterns which were conservative-dominant culture, symmetric culture and innovative-task culture. Conclusions: The meta culture of the nursing organizations was the conservative culture. But conservative culture decreased nurses' outcomes. Therefore the nurse manager should develop a symmetric organizational culture including four types of culture than dominant culture of one type.