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The Free Flow of Excellence Toward the Field-Being Approach to TQM

  • Pavlovic, Dusan
    • International Journal of Quality Innovation
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.1-16
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    • 2005
  • The concept of Total Quality Management may be perceived from different philosophical perspectives. In this paper we shall present a view on TQM from the perspective of Field-Being philosophy and compare it with the alternative philosophical views. From the perspective of Field-Being philosophy, the goal of TQM is to achieve the free flow of excellence at all levels: individual, team and organizational. By overcoming rigidity in thinking, behavior and performance TQM turns into an art-the Art of Quality Management, which is the source of true stakeholder delight.

Well-being Tourism and Wellness Mediated Effects to Improve Quality of LifeFocusing on Forest Healing Program Users (삶의 질 향상을 위한 웰빙관광과 웰니스의 매개효과: 숲치유프로그램 이용자를 중심으로)

  • Lee, Woong-Bae
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.12
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    • pp.264-274
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    • 2021
  • This study aims to analyze the impact of well-being tourism motivation on quality of life through well-being tourism satisfaction, focusing on wellness mediated effects. Recently, despite the growing number of well-being tourism pursuing wellness, the lack of research has led to a close analysis of the impact of well-being tourism motivation on quality of life through well-being tourism satisfaction. For this study, a total of 236 people who have experienced well-being tours in the metropolitan area were surveyed from May 10 to May 21, 2021. First, well-being tourism motivation has a positive effect on well-being tourism satisfaction. Second, well-being tourism satisfaction has a positive impact on the quality of life. Third, Wellness has a positive indirect effect as a partial mediator between well-being tourism satisfaction and quality of life The implications of this study are to demonstrate the impact of well-being tourism on quality of life using Wellness' mediators This study suggests that wellness tourism plays an important role in improving the quality of life. It was analyzed that well-being tourism had a positive effect on improving the quality of life at a time when the fatigue of daily life was increased due to prolonged COVID-19. In addition, Wellis analyzed that it is an important factor in enhancing the quality of life for well-being tourists. This contributes not only to the academic contribution to the revitalization of well-being tourism, but also to the development of stress improvement routes to improve people's lives nationally.

Comparison of Spiritual Well-being and Quality of Life between Hospice Patients and Nonhospice Patients (호스피스 환자와 비호스피스 환자의 영적 안녕과 삶의 질)

  • Lee, Hae-Sook;Doh, Bok-Num
    • Korean Journal of Adult Nursing
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.364-372
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    • 2003
  • Purpose: This study was conducted to find out the effects of hospice care by evaluating the spiritual well-being and quality of life in the hospice and nonhospice patients. Method: The research design was composed of descriptive study. The data were collected using the questionnaire with interview from 30 hospice patients at three hospice institutes and 30 nonhospice patients at two general hospitals. The tools used for this study were 14-item questionnaire regarding general characteristics, a revised Spiritual Well-being Survey(Paloutzion and Ellision, 1982) and 22-item of revised Mcgill Quality of Life questionnaire. Result: The spiritual well-being of the hospice patients was higher than that of nonhospice patients(F=5.52, p=0.023). The global quality of life of the hospice patients was higher than that of nonhospice patients(F=8.84, p=0.004). There was a significant positive correlation between spiritual well-being and quality of life of the hospice patients and non hospice patients. Conclusion: The hospice care effects on spiritual well-being and quality of life of the terminal cancer patients.

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Comparison in Spiritual Well-being and Quality of Life between Hospital and Home Hospice Patients (병동호스피스 환자와 가정호스피스 환자의 영적 안녕과 삶의 질 비교)

  • Kim, Bok Hee;Park, Heeok
    • Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.292-301
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    • 2013
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the spiritual well-being and quality of life between hospital and home hospice patients. Methods: A total of 116 patients from 4 hospice hospitals in D city and P city participated in this study from January to April 2012. To measure spiritual well-being, an instrument developed by Paloutzian and Ellison (1982) and revised by Park (2005) was used. To measure quality of life, an instrument developed by Cho (1993) and revised by Sun (2003) was used. The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, t-test, $x^2$-test, and ANCOVA. Results: Spiritual well-being and quality of life were higher in home hospice patients than in hospital hospice patients, but they were not statistically significant. Higher education and having religion were significantly related to higher spiritual well-being in both groups. Having religion and pain history for the past one week were significantly related to higher quality of life in both groups. Conclusion: For hospice patients, participation in religious activities needs to be encouraged to improve their spiritual well-being and quality of life. Assessing the hospice patients' pain history with close observation and managing the pain are suggested.

Working Mother′s Parenting Behavior as Related to Job Characteristics, Day Care Quality, and Psychological Well-being (취업모의 직업관련 특성, 탁아기판의 질 및 심리적 안녕감이 양육행동에 미치는 영향)

  • 박성연;임미리
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.57-68
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study was to examine working mothers'parenting behavior as related to job characteristics, day care quality and psychological well-being. The subjects of this study were 202 working mothers of 3-to-6 year old children enrolled in day care centers. Data were gathered via questionnaires responded by mothers. As results, both mother's psychological well-being and parenting behaviors were positively related to job characteristics such as husband's support and work place policy and day care Quality Most significantly, the relations between husband's support as well as day care Quality and mother's behaviors were completely mediated via mother's psychological well-being. This study demonstrated that working mothers'psychological well -being is an important mediating variable in predicting positive child-rearing behaviors.

The Effects of Chinese Coffee Shop Customers' Happiness on Continuous Usage Intention (중국 커피 전문점 이용고객의 해피니스가 지속이용의도에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • An, Shengnan;Zhang, Jun
    • The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.25-33
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    • 2019
  • Purpose - With the economic development in China, the lifestyle of Chinese customers has changed dramatically. Chinese customers are more likely to have coffee in a shop with the ability to make them happy than those with high quality coffee in a nice physical environment. Happiness becomes a critical driver of customers' intention to purchase a cup of coffee in a specific coffee shop again and again. As a result, happiness becomes an important factor for managers to make strategies for attracting customers. Although managers and scholars pay more attention to emphasize the importance of happiness in customers' consumption, little research has been conducted to investigate the relationship between happiness and coffee shop's continuous usage intention in the Chinese coffee industry. Research design, data, and methodology - A research model is made to explain the impact of happiness on customer's behavior. To understand the influence of happiness better, we consider two dimensions of happiness which are subjective well-being and psychological well-being. In order to confirm the relationships of the variables in the research model, the online survey is constructed in China. Customers who have experienced the services in a coffee shop are asked to do the questionnaire. With 453 reliable questionnaires, structural equation modeling is used to analyze the causal relationships of the coffee quality, physical environment, subjective well-being, psychological well-being, and continuous usage intention. Results - Results indicate that coffee quality and physical environment are not the direct factors that influence customers' continuous usage intention. However, good coffee quality and physical environment are the significant predictors of Chinese customers' happiness associated with subjective well-being and psychological well-being, which in turn affects customers' continuous usage intention. Conclusions - In this study, it is proposed that coffee quality and physical environment may be the key factors influencing customers' happiness. Happiness, including subjective well-being and psychological well-being matters in decision making process. More importantly, happiness increases the continuous usage intention when the coffee shop can serve customers with higher quality coffee at a good atmospheric place. Managers should consider happiness as an important factor in making marketing strategies to compete in this industry.

The Relationship between Eating Out Consumption Propensity, Dessert Cafe Satisfaction, Psychological Well-Being and Quality of Life (외식소비성향과 디저트카페 만족, 심리적 행복감, 삶의 질 간의 관계)

  • Han, Ji-Soo;Lee, Hyoung-Ju
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.71-82
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate relationship between eating out consumption propensity, dessert $caf{\acute{e}}$ satisfaction, psychological well-being, and quality of life. The objective of this study was reached by verifying a hypothesis through empirical analysis. Data collection was conducted from November 10, 2017 to December 10, 2015, and 250 copies of the questionnaires were distributed. Of these, 243 valid copies of the data were used for the analysis except for the questionnaires that did not meet the research purpose. The results of the analysis were as follows. First, only health pursuit type and quick & convenience pursuit type had a significant influence on satisfaction of dessert cafe. On the other hand, economic value pursuit type, eating out enjoyment pursuit type, and atmosphere pursuit type did not significantly affect dessert cafe satisfaction. Second, among the eating out consumption propensity, there were significant influences on psychological well-being in order of atmosphere pursuit type, eating out enjoyment pursuit type, economic value pursuit type. On the other hand, the health pursuit type and the quick & convenience pursuit type did not significantly affect psychological well-being. Third, satisfaction of dessert cafe had a significant effect on psychological well-being. Fourth, psychological well-being has a significant effect on the quality of life compared to dessert cafe satisfaction. The result of this study is supposed to be utilized as an instrumental data for establishing a strategy for differentiating dessert cafe to improve the quality of life through grasping the eating out consumption propensity to increase satisfaction and psychological well-being in dessert cafe.

Quality of Life in Patients with Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (조혈모세포 이식환자의 삶의 질)

  • Song, Byung-Yun;Kang, Hye-Ryeong;Kim, Kwang-Sung
    • Asian Oncology Nursing
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.40-49
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    • 2008
  • Purpose: This descriptive study was to investigate the quality of life in patients with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) from June 1 to October 13, 2007. Method: The survey was conducted in 6 different university hospitals which located in Seoul and Jeollanam-do province using the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-BMT Scale (FACT-BMT) version 4. We collected a total of 155 questionnaires and analyzed 149 among them. Results: The average score of quality of life was 2.53 out of 5. Physical well being score was highest among sub-domains, followed by emotional well-being, additional concerns, social/family well-being, and functional well-being. Study subjects worried that their conditions would get worse. However study subjects didn't regret having been received HSCT. Age, duration from HSCT, age at diagnosis, income, readmission, HSCT type, educational background, marital status, and the level of activities of daily living were related to quality of life. Conclusions: The findings of this study indicates that the HSCT survivor's quality of life issue is still important and have to be investigated repeatedly in the future. That is necessary for generalizing QOL outcomes for clinical use. We also suggest to develop interventions to improve QOL.

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Quality Characteristics of Freeze-Dried Soymilk Powder (동결건조한 두유 분말의 품질 특성)

  • Kim, Yong-Sun
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.89-98
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    • 2014
  • In this study, soybean is used to produce soymilk according to various extracting methods and heating time. Specifically, the soy slurry is being filtered before being heated, or heated before being filtered. Following that the soymilk produced is freeze-dried to be powdered, and then, the quality characteristics of the powdered soymilk are mutually compared to determine the applicability of various food additives. The freeze-dried soymilk powder shows 2.03~6.35% of moisture content, and in terms of unit quantity, retained more proteins, which suggests that the ratio of protein extraction is higher than any other nutrients. Accordingly, the protein coefficient is significantly higher in soymilk powder being heated and processed than in raw soybeans. In particular, protein coefficient is the highest in the soymilk which is heated for 20 minutes before being filtered (SHBF20). The longer the heating time was, the trypsin inhibitor (TI) tended to be far less active. Such an inactivation seems to be more apparent in the "SHAF" soymilk powder than "SHBF" soymilk powder. Because protein had to be denaturated by heating for soymilk, the nitrogen solubility index (NSI) of soymilk powder is decreased considerably, while the protein digestibility, water absorption, emulsification and foaming activity all increase. Oil absorption tends to decrease slightly. As discussed above, the soymilk heated for 10 minutes after being filtered (SHAF10) and the soymilk heated for 20 minutes before being filtered (SHBF20) show optimum processing conditions for soymilk powder.

The Analysis of Research Trend and Measuring Tools about Well-being (웰빙 관련 의약학 분야의 국내 연구동향과 측정도구 분석)

  • Park, Hwang-Jin;Lee, Sang-Nam;Kwon, Oh-Min;Han, Chang-Hyun
    • Journal of Society of Preventive Korean Medicine
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.89-105
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    • 2013
  • Objectives : The aim of this study is to analyze the domestic research trend focusing on well-being studies in medicine. Through this study, the researchers attempt to explore the research trends of the well-being in Traditional Korean Medicine. Methods : Well-being as a key word was searched on representative domestic databases of articles and the researchers collected the articles of medical journals published from 1980 to 2012. Finally 416 articles of well-being were selected. Results : Among the fields of medicine, well-being studies have been mainly proceeded by nursing science, preventive medicine and psychiatry. Well-being studies that mainly analyzed the variables associated wih quality of life and well-being to cancer patients, workers and elderly. But every measuring instrument searched with well-being was adapted from western tools. And there has not been any study used measuring instrument of well-being and interventions related to Traditional Korean Medicine. Conclusions : In order to handle the new wave of well-being and quality of life, research methods using tools to measure these variables need to be developed. Furthermore, it seems to be necessary that research on how to take advantage of Yangseng that is health concept of Traditional Korean Medicine.