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The Effect of Contextual Factors on Resistance to Change in Lean Transformation

  • TRAN, Duc Trong;PHAM, Huong Thu;BUI, Van Thu
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.11
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    • pp.479-489
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this paper is to uncover whether and how contextual factors (information exchange, participation, trust in management, and training), relate to resistance to change. It also explores the mediating effect of perceived impact of change on the relations between contextual factors and resistance to change. This study is conducted in several manufacturing plants in food processing industry in Vietnam, which is implementing a top-down large-scale change - Lean transformation, adopting Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) program, to be specific. The findings suggest that all four contextual factors are negatively associated with resistance to change, in which training had the strongest impact. Also, the perceived change impact partially mediates the relationships between the four contextual factors and resistance to change. The practical implications of this paper are that employees who receive adequate, timely and useful information relating to change are less likely to show opposing behaviors towards change. Fostering trust in management among employees, and employee involvement in decision-making, also have a significant influence when addressing employee resistance to change. Employees who are well-trained, well-equipped with tools and knowledge about the change, are less likely to resist as they view the benefits of changes more significant than the risks.

CPS: Operating System Architecture for Efficient Network Resource Management with Control-Theoretic Packet Scheduler

  • Jung, Hyung-Soo;Han, Hyuck;Yeom, Heon-Young;Kang, Soo-Yong
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.266-274
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    • 2010
  • The efficient network resource management is one of the important topics in a real-time system. In this paper, we present a practical network resource management framework, control-theoretic packet scheduler (CPS) system. Using our framework, an operating system can schedule both input and output streams accurately and efficiently. Our framework adopts very portable feedback control theory for efficiency and accuracy. The CPS system is able to operate independent of the internal network protocol state, and it is designed to schedule packet streams in fine-grained time intervals to meet the resource requirement. This approach simplifies the design of the CPS system, and leads us to obtain the intended output bandwidth. We implemented our prototype system in Linux, and measured the performance of the network resource management system under various network QoS constraints. The distinctive features of our principles are as follows: It is robust and accurate, and its operation is independent of internal network protocols.

A Study for Improving Destruction Appraisal System of Records: Focusing on the Destruction Appraisal Case of A City Record Center (기록물 폐기평가 제도 개선방안에 관한 연구 - A시청 기록관 폐기평가 사례를 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Myoung-Hun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Archives and Records Management
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.7-24
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    • 2015
  • Destruction appraisal system improved with the enactment of the 1999 Public Records Management Act has the strategic concepts to prevent loss of important records with prohibiting the destruction in creation organization of records. But destruction appraisal carried out in record center realistically has the big difference with destruction appraisal system intended by Public Records Management Act. Therefore this article intends to explore the importance of destruction appraisal system through a review of the record appraisal system, and investigates operation status of destruction appraisal system in record center and operational issues. And it intends to explore scheme for practical application of destruction appraisal system based on actual cases of destruction appraisal which operates as a model.

Framework of Owner-driven Lean Construction for Plant Construction (발주자 주도형 린 건설에 대한 기초 연구;플랜트 건설공사를 중심으로)

  • Ryu, Chung-Kyu;Han, Seung-Heon;Park, Jung-Jun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.647-651
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    • 2007
  • The Lean Construction is adopted from Lean Principle of Manufacturing Industry in the early of 1990, that has been providing theoretical background and good practical implementation for maximizing customers' satisfaction and improving productivity through minimizing the waste factors in the construction operations. The Last Planner System(LPS), one of the elementary techniques of Lean Construction, aims for improving the work reliability and reducing variability by measuring and managing the daily or weekly performance for overcoming the weakness of recent complex schedule management tools such as Critical Path Method. This research is propose a framework for implementation of LPS conducted by owner in plant construction.

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A study on the characteristics on the error of the flight crew (운항승무원 실수 특성에 관한 연구 : LOSA를 중심으로)

  • Choi, Jin-Kook;Kim, Chil-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.62-67
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    • 2009
  • LOSA is a flight safety program that analyses human errors in normal operations. Trained pilot observers monitor the normal flights at the observer seat. LOSA is a proactive non jeopardy data collection tool using threat and error management(TEM) as a framework. With the analysis of crew behaviors through LOSA with The LOSA collaborative(TLC), the airlines can identify the behaviors of the crew during normal operations. The major objective of LOSA is to measure how the crew manage threats, errors and undesired aircraft deviations in the cockpit on day to day operations. The airlines are able to set up effective TEM training with practical six generation Crew recourse management(CRM) with data of error from LOSA instead of theoretical CRM courses. The Airlines can use TEM as an integral part of a Safety Management System(SMS) and uses monitoring and cross-checking skills in the flight operations to manage threats and errors effectively when we know the errors we make in the cockpit on daily operation. The result of LOSA indicates that the error detection rate should be enhanced since around the half of the errors went undetected. The areas which should be focused for enhancing the error detection are monitor, cross-check, the management of workload, automation and taxiway/ runway to manage errors effectively.

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RFID Technology Applications with PMIS for Managing RMC Truck Operations

  • Kim, Seung-Ho;Kim, Sang-Yong
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.468-481
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    • 2011
  • This research presents a strategy and information system to manage the logistics of delivery ready mixed concrete (RMC) under the integrated environment of PMIS+RFID. PMIS is system tool and technique used in construction sectors to delivery information. Information that can be extracted electronically in real time is more valuable than data gathered and maintained manually. RFID technology can help to improve data accuracy through supply chains and by identifying products and objects at specific points through automatic identification. The objectives of these two implementations can be able to improve the efficiency of logistics management for RMC truck process, and to verify the technical and practical feasibility of PMIS+RFID application in construction industry. This may be realistic given the dynamics of daily activities on construction sites. This research is focused on examples on real world case study, applications and research theme related and connected to PMIS+RFID technology. It demonstrated that PMIS+RFID technology has been automatically implemented and has shown process information about the RMC truck and the overall status information about it, both quickly and accurately. As a result, the construction site where needs 300 $m^3$ pouring (50 RMC trucks) per day can be reduced total 250 minutes. Moreover, this time saving is related to the labour cost saving. From the case studies, RFID+PMIS system was proven in terms of effectiveness rather than current method.

Hazards Assessment and Workplace Management of Epichlorohydrin (Epichlorohydrin의 유해성과 작업환경 관리)

  • Kim, Hyeon-Yeong;Hwang, Yang In;Kuk, Won-Kwen
    • Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.164-173
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    • 2012
  • Objectives: Epichlorohydrin is a material that has been predicted to have high volatility and strong toxicity and is used normally in working area. Therefore, the hazardous and dangerous level and the foreign management system about epichlorohydrin should be invested at home and abroad and through hazard assessment for occupational environment measurement and exposure status of industrial workers in domestic working area. Methods: To assess risk and to suggest Development and Adoption to prevent health damage of workers owing to the epichlorohydrin exposure, the hazardousness and dangerousness of epichlorohydrin and its practical examples and regulation level for domestic and abroad health impairment are researched on the base of various references. Results: The epichlorohydrin caused skin and mucus membrane irritation, respiratory paralysis, kidney and live damage under the influence of acute toxicity and in animal study, it was confirmed as a doubtful carcinogenic substance to trigger reducement of sperm number and reproduction ability, abnormal spermatogenesis, mutagen, increase of forestomach epithelium and occurrence of papilloma and so on, as well as it induced stimulus asthma and allergic contact dermatitis for exposure workers. Conclusions: Epichlorohydrin was found to occur allergic contact dermatitis, carcinogenesis doubt and reproduction toxicity and was verified as a material which would be established reinforcement of management level to care health of handlers, such as denotement dangerousness of skin absorption.

Information Systems for Organizational Agility: Action Research on Resource Scheduling at the Universidad de Chile

  • Seo, Dong Back;La Paz, Ariel I.;Miranda, Jaime
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.417-441
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    • 2014
  • Organizations need to exhibit characteristics of agility to stay ahead of their competitors and to survive in dynamic environments. One major concern for organizations is how to implement Information Systems (ISs) to enhance their agility. Organizations tend to spend too many resources to change their entire IS instead of only the components that cause problems without exactly knowing whether it enables or suppress organizational agility. To address these shortcomings and practical issues, we provide a framework to assess organizational agility and to diagnose a problem related to IS. By applying this prototype of the Agility Framework, we were able to diagnose a problem that the department of Management Control and Information Systems at the Universidad de Chile had and planned actions for them to improve its organizational agility with a course scheduling system, eClasSkeduler. This action research, which took more than 25-month for the first cycle, further develops the Agility Framework, which not only provides a way to link IS with organizational functions but also illustrates how to use it to diagnose a situation and plan actions for improving organizational agility through an information system.

A study on hazard rate decrease plan in plant construction site by improving foreman's role (플랜트 건설현장의 작업반장 역할개선을 통한 위험율 저감방안 연구)

  • Eun, Nam-Gwon;Kim, Chang-Eun
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.33-44
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    • 2015
  • Domestic plant construction sites have a tendency to become bigger, more various and complicated. Moreover frequency of industrial incident is increasing due to short project period, coexistence work condition and using heavy construction equipment. Installing safety facilities and safety training contribute to prevent incident. But mostly incident happens due to workers' unsafe action and wrong work method. Technically, it is very difficult for us to closely manage workers preventing incident. Therefore, the role of foreman who ordinarily works together with his workers is considered more important. Specific execution plan was drawn through industrial incident statistics from Ministry of Labor and questionnaire survey to interest parties(supervisor, safety staff and foreman). If foreman has raised sense of belonging and responsibility by conducting practical safety training for his workers, manages job site and receives proper compensation for these roles, it will be expected that it fully influences incident decrease.

A Study on Variables Affecting Customer Orientation of Service Organizations (서비스 조직의 고객지향성에 영향을 미치는 변수에 관한 연구)

  • Lim, Jong-Bin;Kim, Yong-Beom;Choi, Yu-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.139-149
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    • 2016
  • Service industry can be divided largely into commercial industry, banking industry, insurance industry, advertising industry, and tourism industry. Of these, banking industry is playing an essential role as it constitutes the backbone of economy. Banking industry, which belongs to financial industry, is sensitive to external environment. In this kind of industry, internal dynamics of an organization is very important. The purpose of this research is to find out what kind of influence the relation of internal dynamics perceived by members of Nonghyup organization has on customer orientation via quality of internal service. For the purpose, we have reviewed preceding studies on variables that affect customer orientation and developed a measuring tool in a form that fits banking organizations. Internal service quality, job satisfaction, and organizational immersion which play a mediating role in the model of this research not only turned out to have a significant influence on customer orientation, they also turned out to have the strongest influence. This research has academic significance as it carried out a research with an emphasis on variables that affect customer orientation of members of Nonghyup organization. Regarding practical significance, it was intended to present useful data that can be utilized for an analysis of internal service quality management and capability of human resource management.