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A Study on Preference Attribute of Smart Learning for SMEs Work-Place Learning Innovation (중소기업의 직무교육 혁신을 위한 스마트러닝 선호 속성에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jung-Hwan;Chang, Hyun-Joon;Han, Yeong-Do
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.647-663
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    • 2011
  • Company's interest in the work place training and investment has been growing continuously because the talent of human resource is the competitiveness itself in the knowledge based society. However, corporate training programs mainly have focused on large companies and SMEs despite the economic business volume have been treated too lightly so far. This paper regards corporate training programs with one of the methods for SMEs innovation and proposes the smart learning in the smart device diffusion. Concretely, this paper analyzes the utilization intention, each attribute and level in smart learning characteristics using conjoint analysis. The result shows that SMEs have positive response for smart learning acceptance and SMEs consider significantly the usage fee type and location with the difference between regular employee and administrator. Specially, interactive communication and customized contents are preferred in the training type. Smart learning can be used as strategic means in supporting the value innovation and enhancing the absorptive capacity in SMEs innovation process.

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A Qualitative Study for Foreign Workers Exposed hazard Chemical Materials in Korean Industry (유해화학물질 취급 외국인 근로자의 적응과정)

  • Kim, Hyun Li;Kim, Jeong Hee;Song, Yeon Ee;Yi, Ggodme;Jung, Hye Sun;Hyun, Hye JIn;Kim, Hee Girl
    • Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.94-103
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    • 2006
  • Purpose: This study was to understand foreign workers' experiences exposed hazard chemical materials in korean industry. Method: The research subjects were 92 foreign workers worked in seoul, namyangju, ansan, suwon, pocheon, incheon, jincheon, and daejeon. It was that grounded theory method as qualitative approach was applied with in-depth interview, recording and dictation, and collected data was analysed line-by-line by research teams. The analysis process of in depth interview data was three phase. Results: The first phase was that find out meaningful data and confronted data for meaningful data was 53 meaningful items. The second phase was coding process of meaningful data, total coding items were 9, difficulty of new environment, existence of health hazard factors originated in work, performance of basic health management, management of hazard materials in work-site, self care of hazard materials in work-site, discrimination of disaster-compensation originated in work, perception of work stress, motivation of leaving position, satisfaction for present life. The third phase was 5 adaptation process, copying phase for new environment, management phase for health hazard factors, health change phase, life change phase, illegal stay phase. Conclusion: In summary, as a results it was concluded that foreign workers was experienced new environment and then has various problems in working site. But these evidences were not different from korean workers basically, undoubtedly reality of a korean small and medium enterprise. And foreign workers with long time stay have had many health problems probably, but they have want to long stay and so reach an unexpected result, illegal long stay. Therefore, we should make efforts for adequate foreign workers' health management at work-site and overall life in governmental and industrial nursing level.

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IPO of SMEs and Information Asymmetry (중소기업의 신규상장과 정보비대칭)

  • Kim, Joo-Hwan;Park, Jin-Woo
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.173-188
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    • 2020
  • Purpose - This study examines the determinants of offer price and short-term and long-term performance of small and medium-sized enterprise(SME) IPO stocks listed on the KOSDAQ during the period from July 2007 to December 2016. Design/methodology/approach - The SME IPO samples are classified into three categories of regular listing, technology-based special listing, and listing by merger with special purpose acquisition company(SPAC), whose results are compared each other and compared to the result for the KOSDAQ listing of large firms. Findings - From the point of SME management which attempts to list its company on the KOSDAQ, the listing by merger with SPAC is the most unfavorable, and the underpricing phenomenon of the technology-based special listing is severe in the second place. By contrast, IPO stock investors can earn the largest abnormal return by purchasing the SPAC which succeeds the merger with unlisted firm, and the next abnormal returns are obtained in the order of the IPO stocks of technology-based special listing, regular listing of SMEs, and regular listing of large firms. However, it is interesting to observe that the net buying ratio of individual investors is relatively large for the IPO stocks of regular listing of SMEs and large firms, which exhibit the long-term under-performance. Research implications or Originality - This result implies that the exceptional listing system such as the technology-based special listing or the listing by merger with SPAC cost the SMEs which bypass the complicated procedure of the regular listing.

The Effect of Transformational Leadership on Job Satisfaction : The Moderating Effect of Job Autonomy (변혁적 리더십이 직무만족에 미치는 영향 : 직무자율성의 조절효과)

  • Lee, Jung-Gil;Lee, Kwang-Hee
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.14 no.10
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    • pp.217-224
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study is verifying the effect of transformational leadership on job satisfaction and to explore the moderating roles of job autonomy. This study developed hypotheses and tested them using hierarchical regression analyses. The data analysis was done by SAS Ver 9.1 and Smart PLS Ver 3.0. The test was conducted by employees working at large, small-medium company and public enterprise. The results indicate that the positive transformational leadership and job satisfaction were statistically supported. And this study found that job autonomy moderating roles in the relationship between transformational leadership and job satisfaction. Based on the findings of the study, this study presented managerial implications and suggestions for future studies.

A Study on Support Plans for Human Resources Development of Suppliers in the Smart Manufacturing Industry (스마트제조 산업에서 공급기업의 인재육성에 관한 지원방안 연구)

  • Choi, Yun Hyeok;Myung, Jae Kyu
    • Journal of Practical Engineering Education
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.177-186
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to view the current status of the smart manufacturing ecosystem and to use it as an objective basis for establishing a sustainable manpower training policy support plans for smart manufacturing suppliers. Therefore, questionnaires were constructed and distributed to 2,200 domestic smart manufacturing supply firms and 6,000 demand firms, which received responses from 259 supply firms and 155 demand firms. The results showed that both supply and demand firms needed digital converged workforce with comprehensive expertise and field-oriented digital transformation workforce. In the method of securing professional manpower, the demand for in-service training and post-management training was high. Based on the results of this study, this study suggests the manpower training policy support plans for smart manufacturing supply firms and contributes to strengthening the global market competitiveness of smart manufacturing supply firms in Korea.

The Effect of the Buffer Size in QoS for Multimedia and bursty Traffic: When an Upgrade Becomes a Downgrade

  • Sequeira, Luis;Fernandez-Navajas, Julian;Saldana, Jose
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.8 no.9
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    • pp.3159-3176
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    • 2014
  • This work presents an analysis of the buffer features of an access router, especially the size, the impact on delay and the packet loss rate. In particular, we study how these features can affect the Quality of Service (QoS) of multimedia applications when generating traffic bursts in local networks. First, we show how in a typical SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) network in which several multimedia flows (VoIP, videoconferencing and video surveillance) share access, the upgrade of the bandwidth of the internal network may cause the appearance of a significant amount of packet loss caused by buffer overflow. Secondly, the study shows that the bursty nature of the traffic in some applications traffic (video surveillance) may impair their QoS and that of other services (VoIP and videoconferencing), especially when a certain number of bursts overlap. Various tests have been developed with the aim of characterizing the problems that may appear when network capacity is increased in these scenarios. In some cases, especially when applications generating bursty traffic are present, increasing the network speed may lead to a deterioration in the quality. It has been found that the cause of this quality degradation is buffer overflow, which depends on the bandwidth relationship between the access and the internal networks. Besides, it has been necessary to describe the packet loss distribution by means of a histogram since, although most of the communications present good QoS results, a few of them have worse outcomes. Finally, in order to complete the study we present the MOS results for VoIP calculated from the delay and packet loss rate.

The Effect of Customer Experience on Export Performance in Overseas Marketing of SMEs: Moderating Effects of the Personal Contacts and Agility (중소기업의 해외마케팅에서 고객경험이 수출성과에 미치는 영향: 인적접촉과 민첩성의 조절효과)

  • Se-Hwa Ahn
    • Korea Trade Review
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    • v.47 no.5
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    • pp.253-272
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    • 2022
  • As the digital era accelerates, traditional perspectives have limitations in explaining the success or failure of export performance. The purpose of this study is to analyze new factors affecting export performance from the perspective of customer experience, which has emerged as an important factor in securing a competitive advantage and generating organizational performance. After deriving hypotheses based on literature review and discussion, a research model is designed in which three factors of customer experience such as understanding customer's objectives, customer value creation capability, and customer journey management are the antecedents, and export performance is the dependent variable. This model also includes organizational agility and personal contact as the moderating variables. To verify the hypotheses, multiple regression analysis was conducted on the collected data drawn from 198 SME exporters. According to the analysis results, it was found that all three antecedents positively affected export performance. In particular, the organizational agility and personal contact were confirmed to have a moderating effect that creates better export performance by interacting with customer value creation capability. The theoretical significance of this study is to find that effective customer experience management can be a key factor in creating export performance. The results suggest that checking the overall customer journey, exporters should select and intervene to intensively manage key touch points that can have a decisive impact on the quality of customer experience. At the end of the paper, practical implications to be considered in creating export performance through effective customer experience management are presented.

Man-Machine Interface Device for Dismantling Factory

  • Yi, Hwa-Cho;Park, Jung-Whan;Park, Myon Woong;Nam, Taek-Jun
    • Clean Technology
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.248-255
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    • 2017
  • In dismantling factories for recycling, it is important to input actual working data to a personal computer (PC) in order to monitor the work results and related recycling rate of the inputs. This should be performed with a keyboard, a mouse, or other devices. But when a worker is working in the factory, it could be bothersome or time consuming to go to the PC. Especially, workers who works at dismantling factories have a generally low education level are scared to use a PC, which could be used as a pretext for not using the PC. In some cases, data input is performed by a worker after the day's job. In this case, it could take additional time, the worker can make more mistakes, and the data could be unreliable. In this study, we developed a man-machine interface (MMI) device using a safety helmet. A joystick-like device, pushbuttons, and a radio frequency (RF) device for wireless communication is equipped in a safety helmet. This MMI device has functions similar to a PC mouse, and it has a long communication distance. RF is used because it consumes less battery power than Bluetooth. With this MMI device, workers need not go to a PC to input data or to control the PC, and they can control the PC from a long distance. The efficiency of PCs in a factory could be increased by using the developed MMI system, and workers at the dismantling factories could have less reluctance in using the PC.

A Study on the Effect of Small and Medium Enterprise Workers' Welfare Environment on Job Satisfaction (중소기업 근로자의 복지환경이 직무 만족도에 미치는 영향)

  • Kwak, No-Hag;Kim, Moon-Jun
    • Industry Promotion Research
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.19-25
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    • 2016
  • This study is to determine the status of satisfaction and well-being and work environment aimed at SME workers, deficiencies is to improve the overall satisfaction improvement. As a result of the confidence analysis to verify the reliability of the measurement tool, all of the factors is somewhat higher reliability coefficient was found to less than 0.6. Job factors, relationship factors, compensating factors are subjected to multiple regression analysis as job satisfaction and welfare duties factors to determine the impact on satisfaction, relationship factors, the compensation factor as an independent variable and dependent of each job satisfaction and welfare satisfaction variable result of three factors, job factors and compensation factors, two factors had significant influence on job satisfaction. When the job factor ${\beta}$ value(0.584), the compensation factor(0.369) showed a net impact on job satisfaction big. By improving the business environment and well-being through improved employee satisfaction, it came to a positive attitude to business is expected to have a positive impact on the satisfaction of external customers.

Design and Implementation of for High Resolution Inkjet Header Interface (고해상도 잉크젯 헤더 인터페이스를 위한 IP 설계 및 구현)

  • Lee, Jong-Hyeok
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.11 no.11
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    • pp.2032-2038
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    • 2007
  • Embedded Controller which controls whole system is most important part of embedded system. Nowadays, new technique called SoC is more using than ASIC. But SoC have some problems. Because of long development time and high cost, it is hard to applying SoC to small and medium enterprise. So many companies use IP technique combined with embedded processor. High resolution inkjet marking system is printing system with embedded controller. It is used in various part of industry. But it has many problems such as printing quality, marking errors, system faults and so on. In this paper, we designed and implemented IP that can solve the printing quality problems. We analyzed total-logic-elements and timing by simulation. As a result of simulation, we could verified that output signals satisfied reference timing. Appling IP to high resolution inkjet marking system, we could get good quality printing message.