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Effect of the Organization's Autonomous Working Environment and Trust among Members on Workers' Job Immersion (조직의 자율적 근로환경과 구성원 간 신뢰가 근로자의 직무몰입에 미치는 영향)

  • Eun-Soo Han;Jong-Hyeon Hwang;Dong-Hyung Lee
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.46 no.2
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    • pp.13-21
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    • 2023
  • In the recent era of the fourth industrial revolution, many industries aim to maximize the efficiency of products and services by introducing cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data. In this situation, organizational culture is changing a lot due to the influx of the MZ generation with strong individualistic tendencies and the decreased face-to-face communication between members. However, active communication with colleagues is still essential to maximize performance, and the margins created by simplifying work processes and automating processes must be used for creating work performance. This requires cooperation and commitment through the job immersion of members who have an active attitude. This study analyzed how the organization's autonomous work environment and trust among members, which are creative work performance conditions, affect job immersion using raw data from the Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute. As a result, it was found that both the organization's autonomous working environment and trust among members significantly effected the members' job immersion. in order to achieve productivity and value improvement in companies, efforts are needed to increase workers' job immersion by building an autonomous working environment and trust among members. The results of this study are expected to contribute significantly to the search for ways to increase workers' job commitment to improve organizational productivity.

Safety and Health Perceptions in Work-related Transport Activities in Ghanaian Industries

  • Atombo, Charles;Wu, Chaozhong;Tettehfio, Emmanuel O.;Nyamuame, Godwin Y.;Agbo, Aaron A.
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.175-182
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    • 2017
  • Background: With the recent rapid industrialization, occupational safety and health (OSH) has become an important issue in all industrial and human activities. However, incidents of injuries and fatality rates in the Ghanaian industry sector continue to increase. Despite this increase, there is no evidence regarding the element of OSH management in transport activities in Ghanaian industries. Thus, this study aims to examine the perceptions regarding the importance of safety and health in work-related transport activities in Ghanaian industries. Methods: A survey data collection technique was used to gather information on best safety practices over a 5-month period. We randomly selected 298 respondents from industries to answer structured questionnaires. The respondents included drivers, transport managers, and safety engineers. Standard multiple regression model and Pearson product-movement correlation were used to performed the analysis. Results: The result shows that for interventions to improve safety and health, concentration has been on drivers' safety practice with less attention to safe driving environments and vehicle usage. Additionally, the respondents are aware of the importance of OSH in transport activities, but the level of integration does not measure up to the standard to reduce operational accidents and injuries. Finally, strong commitment to changing unsafe practices at all levels of operations appears to be the effective way to improve safety situations. Conclusion: OSH culture is not fully complied in industries transport activities. This study, therefore, supports the use of safety seminars and training sessions for industry workers responsible for transport operations for better integration of safety standards.

A Study on the Relationship between Cabin Crew's Perceived Organizational Support and Their Work Commitment: Focusing on Low Cost Carrier in Korea (항공사 객실승무원의 조직지원인식과 직무몰입의 관계성 연구: 국내 저비용항공사를 중심으로 )

  • Ji-Eun Kim;Ki-Woong Kim;Sang-Yong Park
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.28-38
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    • 2024
  • Due to globalization, the air transport industry plays a key role in the global economy. In particular, the air transport industry is highly dependent on human resources, and the capabilities of the cabin crews in managing safety and providing service in a cabin depend on the service quality and the success of the company's human resource management. Therefore, systematic support and interest in competitive key personnel are believed as very important factors. Airlines need to improve the work engagement of airline cabin crew through organizational supportive efforts. Thus this paper surveyed 309 cabin crews who worked at low cost carrier and conducted an empirical analysis based on survey results. The study validates hypotheses pertaining the relationship between organizational identification and job commitment of cabin crew according to the airline's perception of organizational support. The comprehensive analysis reveals that perceived organization support has a significantly positive impact on cabin crews' work engagement.

Impact of Psychosocial Factors on Occurrence of Medication Errors among Tehran Public Hospitals Nurses by Evaluating the Balance between Effort and Reward

  • Zaree, Tahere Yeke;Nazari, Jalil;Jafarabadi, Mohhamad Asghary;Alinia, Tahereh
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.447-453
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    • 2018
  • Background: Patient safety and accurate implementation of medication orders are among the essential requirements of par nursing profession. In this regard, it is necessary to determine and prevent factors influencing medications errors. Although many studies have investigated this issue, the effects of psychosocial factors have not been examined thoroughly. Methods: The present study aimed at investigating the impact of psychosocial factors on nurses' medication errors by evaluating the balance between effort and reward. This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in public hospitals of Tehran in 2015. The population of this work consisted of 379 nurses. A multisection questionnaire was used for data collection. Results: In this research, 29% of participating nurses reported medication errors in 2015. Most frequent errors were related to wrong dosage, drug, and patient. There were significant relationships between medications errors and the stress of imbalance between effort and reward (p < 0.02) and job commitment and stress (p < 0.027). Conclusion: It seems that several factors play a role in the occurrence of medication errors, and psychosocial factors play a crucial and major role in this regard. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate these factors in more detail and take them into account in the hospital management.

Predicting Employment Status of Injured Workers Following a Case Management Intervention

  • Awang, Halimah;Mansor, Norma
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.347-351
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    • 2018
  • Background: The success of an injury intervention program can be measured by the proportion of successful return to work (RTW). This study examined factors of successful return to employment among workers suffering from work-related injuries. Methods: Data were obtained from the Social Security Organization, Malaysia database consisting of 10,049 RTW program participants in 2010-2014. The dependent variable was the RTW outcome which consisted of RTW with same employer, RTW with new employer or unsuccessful return. Multinomial logistic regression was performed to test the likelihood of successful return with same employer and new employer against unsuccessful return. Results: Overall, 65.3% of injured workers were successfully returned to employment, 52.8% to the same employer and 12.5% to new employer. Employer interest; motivation; age 30-49 years; intervention less than 9 months; occupational disease; injuries in the lower limbs, upper limbs, and general injuries; and working in the manufacturing, services, and electrical/electronics were associated with returning to work with the same employer against unsuccessful return. Male, employer interest, motivation, age 49 years or younger, intervention less than 6 months, occupational disease, injuries in the upper limbs and services sector of employment were associated with returning to new employer against unsuccessful return. Conclusion: There is a need to strengthen employer commitment for early and intensified intervention that will lead to improvement in the RTW outcome.

A Study for Enhancing Disaster Operations Management at Seoul Emergency Operations Center - Focused on the Education and Training for Firefighters of Seoul (서울종합방재센터 상황실 재난상황관리능력 제고 방안 - 서울특별시 소방공무원 교육훈련을 중심으로)

  • Park, Soonil;Park, Chanseok
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.480-491
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    • 2018
  • Purpose : This study aims to suggest social support composed of organizational support and managerial support would be systematically managed to enhance Disaster Operations Management at Seoul Emergency Operations Center. Method : Emotional labor was used as an independent variable, and organizational commitment was used as a dependent variable to analyze the mediating effects of social support. Results : First, in the aspect of organizational support, the objective evaluation of disaster situation management, disaster situation management emotional labor reduction education and training program development, monitoring of disaster situation management, quality improvement and work imbalance mitigation of firefighters, and emergency coordination managers are needed for systematic work management for emotional labor settlement. Secondly, it is necessary to select competent firefighters in the level of managerial support, to prepare healing measures for structured phased emotional labor for firefighters, and to have counseling competency for managers for emotional labor firefighting officers. Conclusion : In order to improve disaster management ability, education and training programs should be developed to improve organizational commitment based on social support.

A Reputation System based on Blockchain for Collaborative Message Delivery over VANETs (VANET 환경에서의 협력적 메시지 전달을 위한 블록체인 기반 평판 시스템)

  • Lee, Kyeong Mo;Rhee, Kyung-Hyune
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.21 no.12
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    • pp.1448-1458
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    • 2018
  • Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) have become one of the active areas of research, standardization, and development because they have tremendous potentials to improve vehicle and road safety, traffic efficiency, and convenience as well as comfort to both drivers and passengers. However, message trustfulness is a challenge because the propagation of false message by malicious vehicles induces unreliable and ineffectiveness of VANETs, Therefore, we need a reliable reputation method to ensure message trustfulness. In this paper, we consider a vulnerability against the Sybil attack of the previous reputation systems based on blockchain and suggest a new reputation system which resists against Sybil attack on the previous system. We propose an initial authentication process as a countermeasure against a Sybil attack and provide a reliable reputation with a cooperative message delivery to cope with message omission. In addition, we use Homomorphic Commitment to protect the privacy breaches in VANETs environment.

Trend Analysis and Activating Study on International Societal Security Standard for Chemical Accidents Prevention (화학사고 예방을 위한 재난안전분야 국제표준 동향분석 및 활성화 연구)

  • Yoo, Byung Tae;Yang, Jae Mo;Oh, Keum Ho
    • Journal of Korean Society of Disaster and Security
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.9-14
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    • 2013
  • Major accidents such as typhoon, tsunami, and chemical accidents have been continuously occurred. In this environment, Technical Commitment (TC) related to disaster management part in the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) concentrates their efforts to enact the business continuous management in emergency situation for international standard. As a result of TC223, four international standards are enacted in 2011, 2012. In the Korean industrial standard, two international standard (ISO22300, ISO22301) out of four standards were enacted in 2012. This study analyzes a recent trend and proposes a method activating of international societal security standard for chemical accidents. Disaster certificate system for developing disaster safety industry is suggested. We hope each related organization could develop our disaster safety management policy and research based on this study.

A Shortened Common Criteria Evaluation Schedule using Project Management Techniques (프로젝트 관리 기법을 이용한 CC 평가 기간 단축)

  • Park, Soon-Tai;Lee, Hyung-Hyo;Noh, Bong-Nam
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.131-144
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    • 2010
  • IT developed countries since the late 1980s are used to develop IT security evaluation criteria to ensure safety and reliability of information protection products. Currently a variety of products used for the evaluation based on CC and it takes a long period of product evaluation is required to reduce the developers and users. In this paper refer to the published standard evaluation schedule for the EAL4 calculation model offers a trial period. In addition, based on this commitment by adjusting the number of evaluaters to evaluate the applicant in the evaluation period to minimize the position offers.

Food Safety Culture Assessment of Home Meal Replacement Manufacturer (가정간편식 식품 제조업체의 식품안전문화 평가)

  • Cho, Seung Yong;Seok, Dasom
    • Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.380-387
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    • 2019
  • Of great importance in food safety culture are the values of an organization regarding food safety that combine the human and material requirements needed to produce safe and hygienic foods. In recent years, efforts have been made to improve the level of implementation of food safety management systems by improving certain cultural elements of food safety. This study investigated the current state of food safety culture in the HMR manufacturing sector. An anonymous survey of 46 HMR manufacturers of various sizes was conducted to evaluate the implementation status of HACCP prerequisite program and food safety culture. The perceived importance of food safety culture factors and their performance were also surveyed. Employees of HMR manufacturers who participated in this survey recognized that the participation of employees and leadership was the most important factor in ensuring food safety. Smaller enterprises are less aware of the importance of such organizational culture. The survey shows that food safety culture indicators in large companies are generally higher than those of small and medium enterprises. Especially, the manager's level of commitment to food safety, resources input, and education and training was significantly higher than that found at small companies (p=0.005). Among the food safety culture evaluation factors, it was found that education and training had significant influence on HACCP prerequisite program performance. Continued employee education and training on food safety and hygiene are important for HMR manufacturers to achieve HACCP certification standards.