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The introduction of the contingency theory of organizational design, which states that the best way to organize varies depending on the nature of the environment in which the organization operates, represented a significant progression in design theory.12 In organizational theory, organizations can be classified by structural and cultural characteristics. Organizational cultures are typically classified...
Knowledge workers are the high incidence group of job burnout because of fierce social competition and occupational stress. Aiming at getting the characteristics of knowledge workers, this paper analyzes the main forming reasons of job burnout, explores the prediction indexes of knowledge workers' job burnout based on organizational job design, including the workload, interpersonal support, amount...
A badge-shaped sensor and feedback system were developed. This system makes it possible to study human and organizational behavior in an office. By prompting changes in workers' behavior, it improves productivity as well as helps to solve individual's problems. Aiming to improve the productivity and quality of project management, the system was applied at a software development company. The results...
The role of managers in a Scrum organization is a topic of high interest with almost no research. Changes in management roles and behaviors were evaluated in a rapidly growing, social entertainment and gaming company in Finland. Sulake introduced Scrum in 2006 and within 6 months institutionalized Scrum across the organization. The company was surveyed in 2009 and responses from 19 managers and 36...
Knowledge management (KM) has long gained acceptance as an important pillar in the organizational realm. However, the acceptance of standardized measurement systems to assess KM value has lagged behind. This is mainly due to the intangible nature of knowledge assets and the fact that no consensus has been reached on the positive effects that KM generates, which could then, in turn, be measured. A...
This paper looks at the challenges that most organizations face in the management of their work environments, with respect to the tools that they can use to effectively capture both the explicit and tacit knowledge held by their employees for subsequent reuse when decisions need to be made. The problem-identification workshop, which is a macroergonomic tool for enhancing the management of work environment...
Based on the concept of Knowledge Structure(KS), Knowledge Management Structure(KMS) is proposed to include KS and KM. KMS corresponds with product structures in the different developing stage, forming the Fractal KMS; Organization innovation and the ability to develop new products is the company's core competence, which consists of KMS factors, for instances, evolution of KMS from Production Process...
The goal of this research is to identify the significant factors affecting the firm performance and estimate the system behavior in different operating conditions. By determining the statistical relations of the productivity and effectiveness of the firm with these factors, a decision-making framework can be provided to improve the system performance within the competitive strategy of the whole supply...
The black box between High performance work systems(HPWS) and organizational performance is an important issue in the domain of Human Resource Management. Scholars strive hard to uncover it. After 2007's financial storm, they try to uncover it from the perspective of human resource flexibility which stems from the practices of HPWS and thereafter turns out to be organizational performance through...
This study considers how organizational slack (unabsorbed and absorbed) changes and affects firm performance in the different stage of IT investment. We test hypotheses using finance data (1994-2008) from 196 manufacturing listed companies in China. The results indicate there is higher unabsorbed slack in the early stage of IT investment, and there is higher absorbed slack in the run-in stage of IT...
Worldwide organizations are striving to improve their productivity in order to stay competitive in the global market. The process of supply chain has become complicated and uncertainties prevail at every stage in the chain. Effective supply chain has become an imperative in order to increase customer satisfaction, reduce costs and handling of demand supply scenario. The Build-to-order manufacturing...
The development of efficient service projects is a critical success factor for companies. Often this goal can only be realized by developing project plans. The process of planning a service and optimizing the underlying project plan still lacks adequate knowledge and support. Existing approaches are not suitable for an optimization of services with regard to productivity prior to their implementation...
Construction industry plays a key role in Chinese national economy. It provides material foundation for continuous development both in national economy and in people's life, and is the only road for the transformation from fixed industrial investment to practical productivity and value. With the accelerating economy development, China steps into the transformation period from traditional planned economy...
After theoretical considerations of organizational changes, the research findings were presented in relation to the following: the selection of the optimal model for implementation of organizational changes in the maritime company that is the subject of analysis and establishing of the character of the correlation between the organizational changes, the productivity level and the ship service time...
Organizational citizenship behavior (OCBs) be characterized with going beyond formal role requirements and wide participation for organizational interests. Previous research on organizational citizenship behavior draw a general conclusion that organizational citizenship behavior had a critical relation with organizational functioning. But little work recovers the internal mechanism by which organizational...
We define the knowledge chain's inter-organizational knowledge spillovers, and study how inter-organizational knowledge spillovers promote the knowledge chain's inter-organizational knowledge creation.
Many studies about the informatization and cohesion of enterprise are carried out separately. But in the information economy, with the systematic view of enterprise development strengthened, an enterprise should be regarded as the organism in economic eco-system, whose existence and development depends on its own competition-collaboration ability. Therefore, expanded from inside to outside of the...
ERP system is a generic term for a broad set of activities supported by multi-module application software which helps organizations to manage their own resources. ERP system has been proved to be able to provide significant improvements in efficiency, productivity and service quality, and to lead to a reduction in service costs as well as to make decisions more effective. ERP systems can integrate...
Economies of scale are the main theories of modern economic growth, It has been the focal point that Catena Business Enterprises how to play the role of economics of scale effectively to promote the growth of enterprises rapidly which the scholars discuss. This paper first discuss the theoretical basis of the expansion of Chain Enterprise, and the essential characteristics of the chain operation,...
This paper presents a timely assessment of Chinese high-tech industrial productivity performances over the period 2001 to 2007. A methodology developed by FARE et al. (1994), and derived from the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach, allows for the estimation of TFP growth rates and its components, technical efficiency, technical change, and scale changes. In this study, we use an industry-level...
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