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A Study on the Efficient Management of Space and Facilities in National Universities (국립대학 시설 및 공간의 효율적 관리에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Hwa-Ryong;Cho, Chang-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.21-32
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    • 2008
  • The major issues that higher education has recently faced are the shortage of students of school age, the changing environment of higher education and the evolving technology. These challenges have urged the university facilities and space to be managing more efficient and more effective. This study assures that the strong strategy is to operate more like business while retaining unique higher education values and a sound facilities management system and appropriate budget help to ensure that university facilities are good for student and teacher's demand. With such faith, this study explores the facilities/space maintaining status and the facility management system of national universities and collages. It finds that there are some problems to adapt new managing methodologies in national universities and that there are also some gaps and perceived constraints to effective space management. This study proposes the alternatives for the facilities managing system that involves the improvement of manpower structure, the expansion of budget scale and the establishment of appropriate facility management system. Finally it provides the practical tools for the effective space and facilities management such as space charging, space standards, central timetabling, space utilisation survey and facilities performance indication.

A Study on the Policy Improvement of Quantitative Management Evaluation Index of Municipal Medical Institutes (지방공사의료원 사업운영분야 경영평가 지표의 문제점과 개선방향)

  • 오동일
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.359-366
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study is to propose the policy improvements of management evaluation system of municipal medical institutes. Management evaluation system of municipal medical institutes has been carried out every each year. This makes a great improvement in management practices. But in some respects, management evaluation system of municipal medical institutes has some problems in mechanism and measures. To overcome these, appraisal measures should be composed to improve medical efficiency. If we want to reconcile two objects which require both profit and public service, more appropriate measures should be designed. In addition, we should make measures to promote people work hard. For this purpose, we should make sure a more theoretical and practical ground back to evaluate the effectiveness of management consulting.

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The Impact of Knowledge Management on Business Performance: A Case Study of Door Manufacturers in Vietnam

  • NGUYEN, Ky;NGUYEN, Ha Hong
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.267-276
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    • 2022
  • The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between knowledge management and business performance through the role of innovation capabilities in door manufacturing companies in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The study proved the importance of knowledge management as well as the important role of innovation capacity in affecting the business performance of door manufacturing companies. The study was conducted by surveying 400 managers/CEOs who are members of the Board of Directors who directly run door manufacturing and trading businesses in Ho Chi Minh City collected from March 2021 to October 2021. The authors used confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to determine the most common observed variables of each factor. Research findings indicated that knowledge management orientation and innovation capability impacted business performance and confirmed the mediating role of innovation capability towards previous variables. These results kindly contribute to theoretical and practical bricks of building determinants of business performance as well as knowledge management indoor manufacturers for future consideration. From the above results, the study has suggested managerial implications to further improve the investment in developing knowledge management elements and innovation capacity to achieve high business results in enterprises door production in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in the future.

THE CONFLICT MANAGEMENT STYLE ADOPTED BY THE SUBCONTRACTORS OF HONG KONG BUILDING PROJECTS

  • Andy K.W. Ng;Andrew A.D.F. Price
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.628-634
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    • 2009
  • It is a common practice in Hong Kong for the main contractors of local building projects to sublet most of the work to subcontractors. Consequently their roles have gradually transformed from a constructor to a manager of subcontractors. The outcomes of a project therefore depend heavily on the subcontractors' performance. However, most of the subcontractors complain that they are unable to efficiently and effectively operate due to site coordination problems, such as inaccurate site reference lines, caused by main contractors. The site problems may consume significant amounts of resources if practical solutions cannot be agreed by the project participants early enough. Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory-II (ROCI-II) model was developed by M.A. Rahim that measure five types of conflict management style including Integrating, Obliging, Dominating, Avoiding and Compromising. This paper presents the questionnaire survey based on the ROCI-II model to rank the preference on the conflict management style adopted by the project representatives of the subcontractors in handling the site coordination problems and its impact to the time used to agree the solutions to the different types of site coordination problems with main contractor. The survey results show that most of the subcontractors' project representatives preferred to adopt the Compromising style to tackle the site coordination problems and the time used to agree the solutions with main contractor was influenced by the conflict management style adopted.

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TOTAL RISK INDEX FOR ASSESSING RISK LEVELS OF OVERSEAS CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

  • Du Yon Kim;Seung Heon Han;Heedae Park
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.1414-1418
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    • 2009
  • International construction projects typically manifest difficult, complex, and varied types of risk exposures; because of this, there is a need for accurate evaluation of risk-integrated performances during the timeframe of project execution. Given the financial crisis currently affecting the world economy recession, risk management has become a more crucial part for the success of international project management. However, the majority of risk management approaches, particularly for overseas projects, are focused primarily on simple forms of checklists, formalization of risk variables affecting project performance for a specific phase, or more complicated computational methods that restricting practical utilization in real-world projects; moreover, these methods lack the conceptual basis to broadly visualize the level of risk over all phases of a project. This study suggests an efficient, yet simple risk-integrated total index to successfully assess the risk levels of overseas construction projects. To this end, this paper first investigates the life cycles and key processes of decision-making for a given project and then derives formulas to represent the total risk index (TRI) along the key decision-making processes. In addition, the study examines the relationships between TRI and performance levels based on the analysis of 126 real-world project samples. Validations using the proposed TRI showed a high correlation to project performance, signifying the usefulness of the proposed approach for construction firms when investigating the level of risks and key areas for management focus.

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Evaluation of Japan's Official Development Assistance (ODA) Projects on Flood Risk Management in Thailand

  • Jung, Minjung;Lee, Seungho
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2022.05a
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    • pp.210-210
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    • 2022
  • This study evaluates Japan's Official Development Assistance (ODA) projects in Thailand from 2011 to 2013 by deploying the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD) evaluation criteria. Special attention is placed on disaster-related development assistance activities of Japan through reviewing long-term impacts of the projects. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has played a crucial role in transferring Japan's experiences on disaster risk management to developing countries, including Thailand. The study highlights two flood risk management projects in Thailand with the support of JICA after the 2011 floods, namely the Project for the Comprehensive Flood Management Plan for the Chao Phraya River Basin and the Project for Flood Countermeasures for Thailand Agriculture Sector. The case studies demonstrate that the projects were efficiently and effectively conducted for meeting Thailand's needs and requirements. JICA provided multi-hazards risk analysis through scientific data as well as local knowledge. However, achievements of the project did not last for long because of a lack of Thai stakeholders' commitment and JICA's post-project management. It is concluded that a development agency should consider impacts and sustainability of flood risk management projects more carefully from the stage of planning, and the practical application of the knowledge, and technologies should also be monitored progressively after the completion of the project.

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Influential Factors for SMEs of Environmentally Friendly Management in Chinese Distribution Industry

  • CUI, Yuan;BAO, Youjian;CAI, Yunwei;KIM, Seung-Woon
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.65-75
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: Environmental pollution problems have become more and more serious, how to effectively protect the environment has become a hot spot of concern to all sectors of society. The way to solve this problem is environmentally friendly management. However, theoretical perspectives and research frameworks of existing research on environmentally friendly management are still unclear. This study aims to examine how the CEO's beliefs for SMEs of Chinese distribution industry affect the environmentally friendly management based on institutional theory. Research design, data, and methodology: This paper collected data from 215 SMEs in China distribution industry and conducted a series of data analysis and hypothesis testing based on an institutional theory perspective using Amos and SPSS to verify the effects of regulatory pressure, normative pressure, and imitation pressure on firms' environmentally friendly management. Results: Through the analysis, this paper tests that normative pressure and imitative pressure have a positive effect on CEO's beliefs. However, regulatory pressure did not have a significant effect on beliefs of CEO. Meanwhile, the degree of CEO's beliefs has a positive effect on environmentally friendly management in Chinese distribution SMEs. Conclusions: Theoretical contributions, practical implications, and future research directions are discussed.

A Study on Direction of University Safety Management Policy by AHP Analysis (AHP 분석을 통한 대학안전관리정책 방향에 대한 연구)

  • Jaeshin Seo;Taekeun Oh
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.511-517
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    • 2023
  • Universities are subject to various safety laws and regulations and practical measures are needed to properly implement them. In order to improve safety management through response to each law, intensive management is required by having an organization and professional personnel in charge, but it is financially difficult to appropriately allocate personnel to respond to laws. Therefore, in this study, necessary safety management policy items were set to reflect the requirements of major laws related to university safety, and a reasonable safety management plan was proposed through the AHP for priorities.

Curriculum Development for the Department of Marine Products Marketing in Fisheries High Schools (수산계 고등학교 수산물유통과 교육과정 개발)

  • Kim, Sam-Kon;Shin, Jin-Han
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.1-18
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    • 2001
  • The purpose of this research was to develop curricula for the department of marine products marketing in fisheries high schools. The specific objectives were as follows; 1) To investigate the demand of students, teachers in fisheries high schools, and workers in marine products marketing for the educational program. 2) To analyze the jobs of the marine products marketing fields. 3) To develop curricula for the department of marine products marketing on the basis of the theoretical background and the result of the objective 1) and 2). In order to achieve these objectives, domestic and foreign literatures, research reports, and theses were referred to in order to know the academic classification of fisheries economics and curricula of junior colleges and universities were collected and analyzed. To achieve the first objective, the degree of the students' knowledge of marine products marketing through fisheries management textbook was investigated. And the questionnaire survey of the demand was conducted on the subject of professors at the departments of fisheries management, teachers in the charge of the related courses and those who work for marine products marketing-related firms. The questionnaire was composed of 22 items about the knowledge of marine products marketing and 27 items about the job capacity. To achieve the second objective, the occupations were surveyed on the subjects of the works who work for marine products marketing. They were sampled randomly among the marine products buyers, wholesalers, auctioneers and salespersons. The results of this research were as follows; Taking grades and credits at each subject were made out on the consultation of the experts in marine products marketing. The curriculum of the professional subjects related to marine products marketing in fisheries high schools is suggested as follows; General Fisheries(10th grade, 6 credits, curricular discretionary class), General Oceanography(10th grade, 4 credits, curricular discretionary class), Fisheries Marine Transportation Information(11th grade, 8-12 credits), Marine Products Marketing(11th grade, 8-12 credits), Fishery Sale and Management(11th grade, 8-12 credits), General Fisheries Management(11th grade, 6-8 credits), Accounting Principle(11th grade, 4-6 credits), Marine Products Processing(12th grade, 4-8 credits), Commercial Law(12th grade, 4-6 credits), Management Practice(12th grade, 4-6 credits), Computer Practical Business(12th grade, 4-6 credits), Marketing(12th grade, 4-8 credits), General Marketing Management(12th grade, 6-8 credits), Marketing Information Practical Business(12th grade, 4-6 credits) Marketing Management I(12th grade, 4-6 credits), Marketing Management II(12th grade, 4-6 credits). If this curriculum is adopted, it will meet the demands of the educational aims and the industrial society.

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Consulting Method and Its Applied Case to Improve Management Capability of Agricultural Firms Based on the Multi-contingency Organization Theory (다중조직이론 기반의 농업경영체 경영관리능력 향상을 위한 컨설팅 기법과 사례)

  • Jang, Ikhoon;Moon, Junghoon;Choe, Young Chan
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.1149-1189
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    • 2014
  • Nowadays, many farmers use online management diagnosis tool developed by Rural development agency(RDA) for the purpose of self-diagnosis of their farm management. Database(DB) was created using the diagnosis results and has been used for agri-firm management consulting. However, the amount of diagnosis data in the DB has been decreasing year by year. This means that the diagnosis tool of RDA did not reach farmers' expectation. Therefore it is necessary to develop a practical consulting tool which is applicable for various types of agri-firm management. This study introduces a management diagnosis tool and consulting method based on multi-contingency organization theory and value chain model for the purpose of improving existing tools and methods. The consulting method based on multi-contingency organization theory shows the core strategy of agri-firms by two different ways such as "efficiency-oriented" direction and "effectiveness-orientated" direction. Also, this method emphasizes that the performance of firm can be achieved when subelements of firm activities follow the same direction with the orientation of core strategy. The important thing is the right firm management activity fitted to its strategic direction. Through this action, limited firm resources can be optimized. In order to make itself understand, this study shows a practical example applied by this method from actual agri-firms.