• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 5th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.539-545
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• 2013

Although individual-level factors (e.g., attitudes, personality) have long been associated with day-to-day attendance decisions, increasingly researchers have recognized "the social nature of attendance dynamics and their susceptibility to social control (Johns, 2008)." Implications of this social approach for research would be to focus attention on the causes and effects of absence culture (i.e., absence-related perceptions, beliefs, values), and the effects of absence culture on individual and group attendance within social units. Construction projects typically require workers to work in teams or crews on highly interdependent projects, and, thus, are particularly relevant contexts to study absence culture. In this paper we apply a system dynamics (SD) model to study absence culture by utilizing the advantages of SD in capturing a feedback process and state changes. We were particularly interested in: (a) the awareness of social norms within construction crews that pertained to attendance, (b) the interplay between formal attendance rules (policy) and these social norms, and (c) how these sources of influence affected the decision-making process of construction crew members. We expect that the results of this work will help construction organizations evaluate (or re-consider) the effects of their attendance control policies (e.g., timing, strength, and frequency) within a social context. Moreover, our findings suggest that the key to reducing excessive absences might be to invest time in influencing absence culture directly rather than imposing frequent and strict regulations - which, in turn, may inadvertently fortify a culture that works against the organization's interests.

• 한국농촌건축학회논문집
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.37-45
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• 2023

This study is conducted to provide an empirical review on how schools play a pivotal role in the regional communities. For this, the use of closed schools, activities to revive small-scale schools, and activities related to nearby schools outside the village were analyzed for villages that have participated and have been awarded in the Contest for Making Happy Rural Communities by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. The results of this are as follows. Out of 204 villages that won the contest, there were 19 cases of school closures. Of these 19 cases, there are 17 cases in which the closed school facilities still exist. For the two remaining cases, there are no buildings and only the site remains. To summarize the use of these schools, the functions are being combined and are determined within the range that local residents can operate. The impact or success factors on the region can be summarized into five main categories through the revival of schools in the crisis of closure. First, it was an opportunity to lay an organizational foundation for village projects in the future by reorganizing the village's organization, such as the formation of a village promotion committee to revive the schools. Second, it did not just introduce outsiders to increase the population, but supported housing and jobs for them to successfully settle down. Third, a cultural community was created with senior and junior residents, and finally, the residents became teachers or formed a village education communities such as lifelong education. In the relationship with schools existing outside the village, activities with members of the surrounding schools and linked activities are being carried out in the sense of "school".

• 한국의료질향상학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.2-14
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• 2023

Purpose: This study aimed to identify strategies to enhance the competencies of patient safety coordinators in Korea. Methods: Fourteen participants from nine hospitals were interviewed between May and November 2022. Qualitative content analysis was used to analyze the data. Results: As for the strategies to enhance patient safety management competency, 3 themes and 11 sub-themes were derived. The first theme was 'Having individual competence as a patient safety coordinator', and the sub-themes were 'Communication skills with members', 'Flexible thinking from multiple perspectives', and 'Preparing for administrative work competencies that they had not experienced as a nurse.' The second theme was 'Responding strategically to promote improvement activities', and the sub-themes for it were 'Multi-angle approach to the problem', 'A careful approach so as not to be taken as criticism in the field', 'Increasing the possibility of improvement activities through awareness', 'Activating the network between patient safety coordinators', and 'Expanding learning opportunities through patient safety case analysis.' The third theme was 'Obtaining support to facilitate patient safety activities', and the sub-themes for this were 'Improving staff awareness of patient safety', 'Providing a training course for nurse professional of patient safety', and 'Expanding the manpower allocation standard of patient safety coordinators.' Conclusion: This study explored personal competencies such as document writing and computer utilization capabilities, focused on ways to improve the field of patient safety management, and emphasized the need for organizational and political support.

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.217-231
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• 2023

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of workaholism according to personality on the job satisfaction of organizational members. Design/methodology/approach - Workaholism was defined as excessive working and compulsive work, suggesting a negative impact on job satisfaction, while predicting that conscientiousness would alleviate this effect and presented as a hypothesis. The unbalanced panel data constructed based on 19,283 samples of 6,863 people from the Korea Labor Institute's Korea Labor Panel Survey was used. Findings - Both excessive working and compulsive working were found to have a direct negative effect on job satisfaction. Additionally, as a result of verifying the interaction effect of conscientiousness, it was found that the negative impact of excessive work on job satisfaction was moderated and alleviated by conscientiousness. In other words, for employees with high conscientiousness, the negative impact of excessive work on job satisfaction is alleviated and the negative impact of overworking is offset, whereas for employees with low conscientiousness, the negative impact of overworking on job satisfaction is strengthened. Research implications or Originality - This study shows that the impact of workaholism on job satisfaction varies depending on personality. While existing research has treated personality only as a determinant of workaholism, this study contributes to previous research in that it expands the role of personality. In addition, in practical terms, it is suggested that differential treatment based on individual values or personality is necessary.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.97-115
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• 2008

Introduction The e-government is concerned with using Internet and Web technologies to exchange information and services with citizens, businesses and other related organizations, and it centers on three functions, namely informational, interactive, and transactional [UN, 2001]. Many developed countries like the U.S. have been actively involved in e-government projects, since they enable both more effective public services for citizens and more efficient internal operations. Korea is among these leading countries that are planning to leverage computer and communication technologies to provide for integration of work processes and information as well as convenient access to information and services. For this reason, evaluating e-government projects is becoming a crucial issue for both researchers and policy-makers. However, most research to date has primarily focused on a model of success of an e-government system designed for citizens, overlooking internal systems specifically created for employees working in a public organization. This paper is intended to propose a model to measure the success of a Web-based information system designed for use by internal users at Chungwadae, the executive branch of Korea's central government. The paper is also aimed at applying the model to the assessment of the present system being used at Chungwadae in comparison with the preceding system. Evaluating an e-Government System The most widely cited model of information systems success today is that of DeLone and McLean[1992, 2003, 2004]. The original model states that the success of an information system can be measured using six dimensions, including system quality, information quality, use, user satisfaction, individual impact, and organizational impact. Although the ultimate success of an information system may be reflected in the impact that the system has upon individuals as well as an organization, aspects of using the system such as system use and user satisfaction can play an important role in determining the system success, because the system would be a sheer failure if users don't like and use the system. As a response to criticisms given by numerous researchers, the authors adapted their model to fit the emerging Web-based environment. The revised model[DeLone and McLean, 2003] they offered included an additional quality dimension, namely service quality, and combined individual and organizational impacts into net benefits which can also influence user satisfaction. The e-government system success model can be built around this updated model. Our model incorporates information quality, system quality, and service quality as in the DeLone and McLean model. However, the 'system use' dimension has been replaced by perceived usefulness, as suggested by Seddon[1998]. In addition, because the e-government systems that this paper focuses on are internal public systems used in government agencies, the 'net benefits' dimension has been replaced by perceived work efficiency. Based on the proposed model, a total of nine hypotheses have been formulated which we tested using an empirical analysis. Methods A questionnaire form has been created with items that are designed to examine the relationships among the variables in the model. The questionnaire has been handed over, in person, to 65 members of Chungwadae staff who are now actively using the E-Support System, the present information system created to support internal work at Chungwadae. We made arrangements to meet with each individual who agreed to participate in our survey, and helped to fill out the survey form with explanations. Of the 65 copies that were delivered, only 33 were returned, and 30 responses of these have been adopted for our analysis, since three were not valid. The extremely small sample size was due to the limited number of staff members who had adequate experience required of this study. Results We gathered data from the questionnaire survey and analyzed them using a regression analysis to test the hypotheses. As shown in the table below, the results indicated that all three dimensions of an information system’s quality are positively related to user satisfaction. However, information quality and system quality were found to be positively related to perceived usefulness, while service quality was not. In addition, perceived usefulness is not positively related to user satisfaction, implying that a user may find a system useful, but may not be satisfied with it. Finally, user satisfaction and perceived usefulness both are positively related to perceived work efficiency. This suggests that workers' positive experience with the system is important to guarantee favorable work efficiency. Conclusions We conclude that the proposed model proved useful in measuring the success of an internal information system used by a government agency. To demonstrate the applicability and usefulness of the model in the paper, we applied the model to the assessment of the present internal system used at Chungwadae in comparison with the preceding system. The results showed that the present system outperforms the preceding one in a statistically significant way. Future research will have to focus on applying the model to Korea's governmental agencies other than Chungwadae and examine whether it proves applicable in different types of governmental organizations.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.693-704
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• 2021

본 연구는 중소기업에 종사하는 조직구성원을 대상으로 전략적 지향성이 정보기술역량과 기업성과에 미치는 영향을 실증적으로 검증하였다. 본 연구에서 제안된 연구모형에서는 전략적 지향성이 기업성과에 영향을 미치며, 이 과정에서 정보기술역량이 매개변수로 사용되었다. 본 연구를 위해서 울산광역시에 소재한 중소 제조업체에 근무하고 있는 조직구성원을 대상으로 설문조사를 하였다. 총 320부의 설문지를 배포하여 277부가 본 연구에 사용되었다. 수집된 자료는 SPSS 24.0을 사용하여 통계분석 하였다. 연구결과는 다음과 같다: 첫째, 전략적 지향성의 고객지향성, 시장지향성, 그리고 기술지향성은 정보기술역량의 정보기술지식과 정보기술운영에 모두 정(+)의 영향을 미치고, 정보기술역량의 정보기술기반에 대해서는 전략적 지향성의 고객지향성과 기술지향성만이 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 전략적 지향성의 고객지향성과 기술지향성이 기업성과에 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으나, 시장지향성은 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 정보기술역량의 정보기술지식, 정보기술운영, 그리고 정보기술기반 모두 기업성과에 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 넷째, 전략적 지향성과 기업성과 간에 정보기술역량의 매개효과를 검증한 결과, 정보기술역량의 하위요인인 정보기술지식, 정보기술운영, 그리고 정보기술기반 모두는 전략적 지향성의 하위요인인 고객지향성 및 기술지향성과 기업성과 간에 부분매개 작용을 하는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 연구결과는 오늘날의 제4차 산업혁명시대에서 대기업과 공급체인 상에 있는 중소기업들의 경쟁우위 및 성과 향상을 위하여 고객지향 및 기술지향 경영전략을 수립하여야 하며, 이를 실행할 수 있도록 정보기술지식, 정보기술운영, 그리고 정보기술기반 등의 정보기술역량을 강화하여야 함을 시사해 주고 있다.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제19권
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• pp.224-242
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• 2003

The author believes that the main task of study in international trade usage and practice is the management of transactional risks involved in international sale of goods. They are foreign exchange risks, transportation risks, credit risk, risk of miscommunication, etc. In most cases, these risks are more serious and enormous than those involved in domestic sales. Historically, the merchant adventurers organized the voyage abroad, secured trade finance, and went around the ocean with their own or consigned cargo until around the $mid-19^{th}$ century. They did business faceto-face at the trade fair or the open port where they maintained the local offices, so-called "Trading House"(商館). Thererfore, the transactional risks might have been one-sided either with the seller or the buyer. The bottomry seemed a typical arrangement for risk sharing among the interested parties to the adventure. In this way, such organizational arrangements coped with or bore the transactional risks. With the advent of ocean liner services and wireless communication across the national border in the $19^{th}$ century, the business of merchant adventurers developed toward the clear division of labor; sales by mercantile agents, and ocean transportation by the steam ship companies. The international banking helped the process to be accelerated. Then, bills of lading backed up by the statute made it possible to conduct documentary sales with a foreign partner in different country. Thus, FOB terms including ocean freight and CIF terms emerged gradually as standard trade terms in which transactional risks were allocated through negotiation between the seller and the buyer located in different countries. Both of them did not have to go abroad with their cargo. Instead, documentation in compliance with the terms of the contract(plus an L/C in some cases) must by 'strictly' fulfilled. In other words, the set of contractual documents must be tendered in advance of the arrival of the goods at port of discharge. Trust or reliance is placed on such contractual paper documents. However, the container transport services introduced as international intermodal transport since the late 1960s frequently caused the earlier arrival of the goods at the destination before the presentation of the set of paper documents, which may take 5 to 10% of the amount of transaction. In addition, the size of the container vessel required the speedy transport documentation before sailing from the port of loading. In these circumstances, computerized processing of transport related documents became essential for inexpensive transaction cost and uninterrupted distribution of the goods. Such computerization does not stop at the phase of transportation but extends to cover the whole process of international trade, transforming the documentary sales into less-paper trade and further into paperless trade, i.e., EDI or E-Commerce. Now we face the other side of the coin, which is data security and paperless transfer of legal rights and obligations. Unfortunately, these issues are not effectively covered by a set of contracts only. Obviously, EDI or E-Commerce is based on the common business process and harmonized system of various data codes as well as the standard message formats. This essential feature of E-Commerce needs effective coordination of different divisions of business and tight control over credit arrangements in addition to the standard contract of sales. In a few word, information does not alway invite "trust". Credit flows from people, or close organizational tie-ups. It is our common understanding that, without well-orchestrated organizational arrangements made by leading companies, E-Commerce does not work well for paperless trade. With such arrangements well in place, participating E-business members do not need to seriously care for credit risk. Finally, it is also clear that E-International Commerce must be linked up with a set of government EDIs such as NACCS, Port EDI, JETRAS, etc, in Japan. Therefore, there is still a long way before us to go for E-Commerce in practice, not on the top of information manager's desk.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.77-100
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• 2009

Information Systems (IS) is an essential tool for any organizations. The last decade has seen an increasing body of knowledge on IS usage. Yet, IS often fails because of its misuse or non-use. In general, decisions regarding the selection of a system, which involve the evaluation of many IS vendors and an enormous initial investment, are made not through the consensus of employees but through the top-down decision making by top managers. In situations where the selected system does not satisfy the needs of the employees, the forced use of the selected IS will only result in their resistance to it. Many organizations have been either integrating dispersed legacy systems such as archipelago or adopting a new ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system to enhance employee efficiency. This study examines user resistance prior to the adoption of the selected IS or ERP system. As such, this study identifies the importance of managing organizational resistance that may appear in the pre-adoption context of an integrated IS or ERP system, explores key factors influencing user resistance, and investigates how prior experience with other integrated IS or ERP systems may change the relationship between the affecting factors and user resistance. This study focuses on organizational members' resistance and the affecting factors in the pre-adoption context of an integrated IS or ERP system rather than in the context of an ERP adoption itself or ERP post-adoption. Based on prior literature, this study proposes a research model that considers six key variables, including perceived benefit, system complexity, fitness with existing tasks, attitude toward change, the psychological reactance trait, and perceived IT competence. They are considered as independent variables affecting user resistance toward an integrated IS or ERP system. This study also introduces the concept of prior experience (i.e., whether a user has prior experience with an integrated IS or ERP system) as a moderating variable to examine the impact of perceived benefit and attitude toward change in user resistance. As such, we propose eight hypotheses with respect to the model. For the empirical validation of the hypotheses, we developed relevant instruments for each research variable based on prior literature and surveyed 95 professional researchers and the administrative staff of the Korea Photonics Technology Institute (KOPTI). We examined the organizational characteristics of KOPTI, the reasons behind their adoption of an ERP system, process changes caused by the introduction of the system, and employees' resistance/attitude toward the system at the time of the introduction. The results of the multiple regression analysis suggest that, among the six variables, perceived benefit, complexity, attitude toward change, and the psychological reactance trait significantly influence user resistance. These results further suggest that top management should manage the psychological states of their employees in order to minimize their resistance to the forced IS, even in the new system pre-adoption context. In addition, the moderating variable-prior experience was found to change the strength of the relationship between attitude toward change and system resistance. That is, the effect of attitude toward change in user resistance was significantly stronger in those with prior experience than those with no prior experience. This result implies that those with prior experience should be identified and provided with some type of attitude training or change management programs to minimize their resistance to the adoption of a system. This study contributes to the IS field by providing practical implications for IS practitioners. This study identifies system resistance stimuli of users, focusing on the pre-adoption context in a forced ERP system environment. We have empirically validated the proposed research model by examining several significant factors affecting user resistance against the adoption of an ERP system. In particular, we find a clear and significant role of the moderating variable, prior ERP usage experience, in the relationship between the affecting factors and user resistance. The results of the study suggest the importance of appropriately managing the factors that affect user resistance in organizations that plan to introduce a new ERP system or integrate legacy systems. Moreover, this study offers to practitioners several specific strategies (in particular, the categorization of users by their prior usage experience) for alleviating the resistant behaviors of users in the process of the ERP adoption before a system becomes available to them. Despite the valuable contributions of this study, there are also some limitations which will be discussed in this paper to make the study more complete and consistent.

• 경영정보학연구
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.97-124
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• 2014

본 연구는 실증적 설문 자료를 기반으로 역할 스트레스와 성과에 대한 정보통신기술(ICT)에 의해 만들어진 스트레스(즉, 기술스트레스)의 효과를 확인하기 위해 사회기술 이론과 역할 이론의 개념을 사용하였다. 본 연구는 먼저 ICT가 어떠한 방법으로 조직 구성원들의 스트레스를 만들며 기술스트레스를 형성하는 요인은 무엇인지에 대한 다양한 관점을 제시한다. 다음으로 본 연구는 크게 다음의 4가지 가설을 제안한다. (1) 기술스트레스는 역할 스트레스(즉, 역할 충돌과 역할 과중)와 부정적 심리 성과 및 IS 사용의 부정적 성과에 각각 긍정적으로 관련되어 있을 것이다. (2) 역할 충돌은 부정적 심리성과 및 IS 사용의 부정적 성과에 각각 긍정적으로 관련되어 있을 것이다. (3) 역할 과중은 부정적 심리 성과 및 IS 사용의 부정적 성과에 각각 긍정적으로 관련되어 있을 것이다. (4) 혁신 지원은 기술 및 역할 스트레스와 부정적 심리 성과 및 IS 사용의 부정적 성과 사이에서 조절 역할을 할 것이다. 본 연구는 가설들을 검정하기 위해 조직의 ICT 사용자로부터 설문조사를 실시하여 수집된 데이터를 바탕으로 부분최소자승(Partial Least Squares: PLS)법을 사용하였다. 연구결과는 기술스트레스와 역할 충돌 간의 관계에 대한 가설을 제외한 다른 가설들을 지지하는 것을 보여주었다. 본 연구는 이론적으로, 조직에서 개인이 경험한 스트레스에 대한 기존의 개념에 기술스트레스의 확인을 통해 또 다른 차원을 추가적으로 제시하고, 기술스트레스와 역할 스트레스 사이의 긍정적인 관계의 검정을 통해 기술과 조직의 역할 사이의 관계 및 구조를 분석하는 문헌에 새로운 맥락을 제안한다. 실무적으로는 기술스트레스가 조직에 존재하는 정도를 평가하는 진단 도구를 제시하고, 기술스트레스의 역효과는 역할 스트레스를 줄이는 전략에 하나의 유용한 방안이 될 수 있다는 것을 제안한다.

• 벤처창업연구
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.115-123
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• 2018

본 연구는 중소 벤처기업의 SCM(공급사슬관리)역량 모델링과 프로세스 개선 방안을 제안하는데 목적을 갖고 실증조사 하였으며, 그 결과를 종합하면 다음과 같다. 중소 벤처기업의 SCM역량 모델링과 프로세스 개선에 있어 공급사슬 전략계획의 모델링에서 전략적 제휴, 기술개발, 집중화에 있어 전략적 제휴를 가장 중요시하고 그다음 기술개발보다 집중화에 중점을 둘 것을 시사하였다. 그리고 의사결정에서도 경로설정 스케줄링과 네트워크 통합, 3자물류 아웃소싱 중 네트워크 통합을 가장 중시하였으며 관리통제에서도 고객서비스 관리, 생산성 관리, 품질 관리 중 품질 관리를 가장 중시하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 거래지원 시스템에 있어서는 주문 관리 선택, 가격결정 청구, 출하배송, 고객 관리 중 주문 관리 선택을 가장 중시한 모델링과 프로세스상 개선을 요하는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 전체적으로 중소 벤처기업의 SCM역량을 극대화시키고 최적화된 프로세스 운영을 위해 해당 조직구성원의 역량과 프로세스 개선 관점에서 기존 전략적 제휴를 통한 네트워크 공유와 통합을 통해 품질 관리를 최적화시키고 거래지원 시스템을 안정화시킴으로써 기업간 전략적 연계를 통한 단순한 전자적 자료 교환 관계를 넘어 정보시스템의 통합 역량을 극대화시킴으로써 차별화된 경쟁우위를 달성할 수 있음을 시사한 것으로 평가할 수 있다. 따라서 스마트 시대에 최적의 공급사슬 통합 역량의 모델화와 최선의 프로세스 관리를 위해 정보통합에 있어 시스템의 호환성과 신뢰성이 바탕이 된 인프라 구축과 함께 SCM역량 극대화를 위한 조직화와 집중화가 선행되어져야 할 것이다.