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Exploring Culture Dimensions and Enablers in Quality Management Practices : Some Findings

  • Pun, Kit Fai;Jaggernath-Furlonge, Surujdaye
    • International Journal of Quality Innovation
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.57-76
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    • 2009
  • Although many adherents openly praise the importance of quality management practices (QMP) in organisations, others have identified significant costs and implementation obstacles. Some recent studies showed that QMP have failed due to the ignorance of quality cultures. How to improve the success rate of QMP in organisations has become a critical issue both in the academy and in practice. This paper discusses the common enablers of and cultural impacts on QMP. It explores the dimensions of national versus organisational culture, and identifies the main features of four quality culture models as advocated in the literature in relation to facilitating QMP in organisations. It was found that flat structures, decentralised functions, empowerment, flexibility, innovation, limited rules and regulations and teamwork favor the QMP implementation. For facilitating culture changes for QMP, values associated with low power distance, low uncertainty avoidance and collectivism would have to be nurtured. Further research is needed to incorporate the findings and develop a practical quality culture approach for real applications in industry.

Establishment of an Axenic Culture of Microcystin-Producing Microcystis aeruginosa Isolated from a Korean Reservoir

  • Han, Ah-Won;Oh, Kyoung-Hee;Jheong, Weon-Hwa;Cho, Young-Cheol
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.20 no.7
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    • pp.1152-1155
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    • 2010
  • In order to establish an axenic (bacteria-free) culture of Microcystis aeruginosa NIER 10039 isolated from a Korean reservoir, the culture was subjected to sequential treatment, including ultrasonication, washing, and addition of antibiotics. Three broad-spectrum antibiotics, namely, kanamycin, ampicillin, and imipenem, were applied separately in that order. Axenicity of the culture was confirmed by cultivation on bacterial media and observation under epifluorescence and scanning electron microscopes. We are the first to establish an axenic culture of a Microcystis strain isolated from Korean reservoirs and can be used in physiological and molecular studies to control toxic Microcystis blooms.

A Study on the Hotel Culinary Culture to the Organizational Effectiveness (호텔 조리사 문화가 조직 유효성에 미치는 영향)

  • 오석태
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.1-21
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    • 2003
  • Domestic hotel businesses are confronted with new market circumstances. Clear accounting and moral management in company which have been reserved or ignored during the past high economic growth period were emphasized. As global standard such as international standard of accounting system, clear accounting, international standard management, and flexibility of employment are emphasized, which is different management is now accomplishing. During these system changes, organization member's identity was threatened a lot. So organization members were required to adopt new environment. Hotel have influence on organizational accomplishment, thought and behavioral response of organization members according to cultural type and share of organization culture. This study are focused culinary team culture as subculture in hotel. What kind of culture more effective to the culinary group\ulcorner What kind of culture are grouped each hotel, include difference imported brand hotel and domestic brand hotel.

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A Study on the Cultural Meanings of Underclothes Advertisements in Women's Magazines (여성잡지에 나타난 속옷광고의 문화적 의미 연구)

  • 김미영;한명숙
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.783-797
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    • 2001
  • This study examines the cultural meanings of underclothes advertisements through the analysis of advertisement messages appeared in women's magazines of Korea which are , and published between 1965 and 1999 mainly targeting the women at the age of 20s through 40s. The method of study is mainly qualitative with subsidiary citations from the results of content analysis. The advertisement messages identified in underclothes advertisements are 1) body care, 2) gender role, 3) commercialization of eroticism, 4) feminism, 5) men's social status and masculinity, 6) social issues of concern and ideologies of the time. Advertisements produce a new meaning through a dynamic mixture of the advertisement's visual and verbal factors. Such a new meaning then can become a part of culture and therefore we can obtain insights of a society culture by analyzing the advertisement messages of underclothes advertisements. Advertisements bring definite changes to the culture through long-term and implicit influences on the constituents of the culture.

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The Analysis of Meaning of Korean Image Reflected in Modern Clothing (현대 패션에 반영된 한국적 이미지의 의미 분석)

  • 이춘희
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.562-576
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    • 2000
  • The purpose of this study is to semiotically reinterpret the Korean beauty and symbol inhering in the modern clothing of Korean designers as the context of traditional culture through regarding the clothing including hegemony that is controlling the Korean society and culture as a sign. The theoretical framework for analysis was derived from the semiotically analytic methods of F. Saussure and R. Barthes. The results of the study are as follows ; Korean images reflected in the modern clothing designed by Korean designers are humanistic image, environmental-friendly image, totemic and mythlogical image, equal and peaceful image, and metaphorical and metonymical image. Conclusively, developing a creative design based upon the interpretation of our unique and traditional culture, the clothing could be newly made of historical and cultural resources in the modern lives. If so, I think that the clothing will be not only the visual and decorative art, but also an information which contains implication of our culture, and finally can be established.

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A Study on the Influence of R&D Organizational Culture to Organizational Commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior In Small and Medium Enterprises. (중소기업의 R&D조직문화가 조직몰입과 조직시민행동에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Sun-Kyu;Lee, Da-Jung;Lee, Sang-Rok;Jung, Jae-Kyu
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.101-115
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    • 2009
  • This paper aims to examine the impact of R&D organization culture(diversity, autonomy, redundancy and connectivity) to Organizational Commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Information Technology Companys. Hypotheses were tested by surveying 250 employees at R&D Gumi Industrial Complex. The findings of research are as follows : First, three factors of R&D organizational culture had a significant positive effect on the organizational commitment except redundancy. Second, two factors of organizational culture in R&D organizational culture had a significant positive effect on the organizational citizenship behavior except autonomy and redundancy. it is shown reliable criterion to effective organizational management in small and medium enterprises.

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A Study of the Western funeral Rituals and Costumes (서양 상장례 의식 및 복식에 관한 연구 -고대에서 근대까지 -)

  • 김경희;이순홍
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.441-460
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    • 2002
  • Funeral culture, which came to being along with the death of human beings, has developed through many changes in the background, culture, religion and custome of the times, having variant cultures depending on each nation or era. This study is designed to historically and systematically classify funeral rituals and costumes which have constantly changed in a special funeral culture from ancient times to modern times so as to investigate the features of each age. The researcher worked on Western funeral cultures, focusing on Egypt and Rome of ancient times, Creek times, the Middle Ages, recent and modern times ages, referring to literature, precedent studies, domestic and international technical books, pictures and drawings in relation to death and funeral services. Western funeral rituals were designed for offering condolence to the dead, but also used to show off the status of the mourners and the position of the dead persons. The mourning dress were utilized to indicate mourning in accordance with the colors, materials and the ways of wearing them, serving as a vehicle for showing off one's own status.

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The Advent of the 19th Century American Mechanical Engineers: A Reinterpretation (19세기 미국 기계 엔지니어 집단의 양성과정의 재해석)

  • Lee, Kwan-Soo
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.37-45
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    • 2011
  • This paper suggests a reinterpretation on Calvert's thesis of the conflict between "shop culture" and "school culture". Robert H. Thurston, who Calvert portraited as the proponent of school culture, was a man from shop culture and the shop culuture's old boy network was essential for Thurston's many achievements as an engineer and educater. This reinterpretation based on the narrowing the scope of the American mechanical engineers in the 19th century into those who shared and inherited the social recognition as the leading machinists from the social upper strata machinist such as the Stevens via machine tool makers of the mid century.

EFFECTS OF TRANSFORMATION CAPACITY ON COMETABOLIC DEGRADATION OF TRICHLOROETHENE

  • Lee, Seung-Bong;Kim, Geon-Ha
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.79-87
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    • 2005
  • The effects of transformation capacity on cometabolic degradation of trichloroethene (TCE) were evaluated using TCE-degrading actinomycetes pure and mixed culture under various culture conditions. The TCE transformation capacity of the actinomycetes enrichment culture in a batch test with phenol addition was 1.0 mg of TCE/mg of volatile suspended solids (VSS). The resting cell TCE transformation capacity of the actinomycetes pure culture cell was 0.75 mg TCE/mg VSS, which increased to 2.0 mg TCE/mg VSS when phenol was added as an external substrate. When the pure culture had an internal substrate in the form of poly-β-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) at 19% of the cell mass, the resting cell TCE transformation capacity increased from 0.47 to 0.6 mg TCE/mg VSS. The presence of PHB increased transformation capacity by 57%, whereas, the addition of phenol caused more than two fold increase in transformation capacity. The actinomycetes culture showed the highest transformation capacity.

Digital Competence As A Component Of Professional And Information Culture Of A Teacher

  • Kharlamov, Mykhailo;Sinelnikov, Ivan;Lysenko, Vladyslav;Yakobenchuk, Nazar;Tkach, Anna;Honcharuk, Оlena
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.7
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    • pp.169-172
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    • 2021
  • Based on the scientific and pedagogical analysis of the theory and experience of teaching computer science disciplines, the didactic mechanism for ensuring the continuity of the average (full) general and higher professional education of economists for practical implementation innovative technology of personal experience foundation. The pedagogical conditions for the formation of information competence, including laboratory, design, research work, the use of active teaching methods for acquiring management skills in production and activities of the enterprise. An indispensable requirement for the conditions for the implementation of basic of educational programs is the assessment of competencies. With this the goal was to develop criteria and levels of formation information competence of future economists and carried out complex diagnostics.