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The purpose of this study is to investigate how an internal social media tool impacts new hire socialization. Using an interpretive case study of a financial services company, this study finds that social media use helped the new hires experience social acceptance, role clarity, self-efficacy, and knowledge of organizational culture. The social media system provided both socialization affordances...
We describe the results of a 7-year management experiment in a small, high technology, research-services enterprise where the company moved from a traditional hierarchical management structure to a novel, researcher-centric, client-focused organization. We challenged traditional organizational assumptions: : Management is sometimes denigrated by technical leadership. So what is the meaning of "manager?”...
In developed countries in the post industrial age, the ratio of the working population in service sectors has been very high. Our great concern is to improve those knowledge workers' creative performance because it could be the source of having an advantage over our rivals. However, there has been a lack of discussion over the management of service sectors for knowledge workers engaged in creative...
Improper technology management will cause business failure. Based on literature review, this paper examines some of the main reasons why companies fail in managing technology. The paper identifies and explains seven principal reasons which may cause a tech company to fail: Leadership, Strategy, Marketing, Timing, Finance, Operations, and Communications. Measures are suggested to prevent and predict...
R&D intensive firms have faced many kinds of innovation dilemmas which firms have to develop both radical innovation to tap new opportunities and incremental innovation to enhance existing capabilities. The designed organizational structure allows to excel at both conflicting modes of innovation can be termed as organizational ambidexterity. However, how R&D intensive firms deal with various...
Recent years have seen the popularization of model based development (MBD) using models based on block diagrams. In many mechatronics systems, including automobile engine control and the brake control, a closed loop control is used to manage controls based on feedback data from control target objects. In order to develop a closed loop control using model base, a plant model that simulates the behavior...
Asset management optimization is critical to business performance and profitability, especially for electric power industry in recent years, with the formation and implementation of the smart grid concept. How to plan and design, operate and maintain the growing large assets is not only one of the key problems of improving business performance, but also the foundation and the most important components...
This paper simulated the game in the policy-processing of grid construction based on the Rubinstein game ideology of bargaining, studied the interaction among main interest groups. The paper also introduced the stakeholder theory to the design of the compensation mechanism, and confirmed the compensation mechanism efficiency through the economic simulation method. This paper points out that in the...
Leadership has traditionally been viewed as a relationship between the leaders and their subordinates. Recent research has shown the significance of the social aspects of leadership. This view forms the basis for the research reported on in this paper. Social network analysis provides socio-metric measures of leadership, which can be associated with traditional measures of leadership. The research...
In this paper, the recent two years of failure analysis cases of our laboratory are screened and some of them are displayed, they are mostly selected with a relation to the influence of temperature and humidity. To illustrate the typical and common failure phenomenon, plastic packaging products are focused. The main failure mode of these failed products include package delaminations, solder abnormality,...
This paper presents an introduction toward train movement as well as relationship among wheel and train's speeds, and defines the notion of wheel slip including two different operation regions designated as creep and wheelspin areas holding stable and unstable characteristics, respectively. Since the equations of movements must be solve simultaneously, the model of wheel and slip is derived by integrating...
Scholars are in agreement that ‘innovation is the successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization’. This notion implies intricate interconnections between constructs. However, creativity per se would not lead to innovation. It must be coupled with conducive organizational climate to enable successful innovations. Empirical evidence have shown favorable trend towards this direction...
Currently value creation is not an exclusive aspect of the company; the client´s co-creator role has taken preponderance due to the contribution of co-creation models, which demonstrate its utility empirically but does not take into account value construction with a systemic approach. The present work proposes a co-creation model through systemic archetypes that allow the capture of value elements,...
Lean and Six Sigma have been practiced by many companies over the last 15 years. Lean and Six Sigma are used to deliver breakthrough improvements in the business processes of a company, not incremental improvements. Lean and Six Sigma deployments are only successful if management in a company support, drive and buy-in to this approach to address business concerns. In this article, the methods, learnings...
In this paper, the recent two years of failure analysis cases of our laboratory are screened and some of them are displayed, they are mostly selected with a relation to the influence of temperature and humidity. To illustrate the typical and common failure phenomenon, plastic packaging products are focused. The main failure mode of these failed products include package delaminations, solder abnormality,...
In terms of run a railroad system, many techniques are required. I will introduce technician training program in the power sector in the East Japan Railway Company. We are positioned as one of the most important management issues human resource development. In recent years, time employees a large amount of leave has come, inheritance of technology and training of technical personnel are urgently needed...
An insurance industry as the financial services has gone through a tremendous transformation over the past decade. Insurance company's management is facing challenges of innovative information and communication technologies, so implementation of their bodily processes into the new electronic marketplace environment is needed. Transfer to e-insurance will lead to market expansion and will straighten...
A Change Agent understands that their job is not done when their Electrical Safety Program (“ESP”) is approved and funded; in fact their job has just begun.
Having good procedures in place and having safe equipment are just two of the elements that are needed in having a good electrical safety program. People are the third element. People do not automatically, instinctively or intuitively follow the safe work practices contained in electrical safety procedures. They need to be led. How we lead and encourage people to be aware of the electrical hazards...
Organizational ambidexterity, defined as the simultaneously pursuit of both exploitation and exploration activities, is essential for organizations' survival, thrive and mature. However, the building of this capability is still ambiguous in prior literatures. This paper draws on the organizational learning theories, presents how two types of learning (i.e. strategic learning and business learning)...
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