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The adoption of social software brings about a plethora of socio-technological changes for organizations. A still largely unresolved challenge is to develop a better understanding of the consequences for leadership. To address this challenge, we first develop the notion of leadership 2.0, delineating it from previous leadership approaches. Then, we present results from 24 interviews conducted with...
In the pre-reform era, Life Insurance Corporation of India (L.I.C.I) dominated the Indian Life Insurance market. But the situation drastically changed since the beginning of the year 2000. With he development of the IRDA Act in 1999, private players started entering into the life insurance market. At the end of the FY 2011–12, there were 24 life insurance companies (inclusive of 1 public sector player,...
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a very comprehensive tool to that allows an organization to identify sources of waste and implements process improvements. This paper describes the adoption of VSM in a semiconductor manufacturing company to improve personnel efficiency and optimize headcount in the production lines. Based on the future state of the value stream mapping a new production process flow was...
Although gamification has successfully been applied in office scenarios, it remains unclear how employees really feel about the introduction of a gamified system at their workplace. In this paper, we address this issue from two directions. First, we present the outcome of an online survey where we analyze users' opinion about gamification in a workplace environment. Then, we analyze the interaction...
Total Quality Management (TQM) is a series of organizational actions. In this paper, we analyze the critical practices in TQM leadership development of a global manufacturing company. We surveyed 142 departmental managers with self-evaluation questionnaire on leadership development and analyzed the data with factor analysis and an Automatic Interaction Detection (AID) method to find critical behavioral...
Transportation-distribution planning problems have been one of the important topics in management science. This paper studies a bilevel multiobjective transportation-distribution planning nodel in which the distributing company has two objectives and the manufacturing company has one objective. For the proposed model, we present a hybrid algorithm to solve this problem, the algorithm uses the controlled...
With comprehensive analysis towards the status quo of CNPC overseas oil and gas business and the dilemma faced by current leaders and cadres, this article tries to find out demand elements of the training of leaders and cadres suitable for further development of CNODC, and present constructive suggestions and opinions to provide management talent for sustainable development of CNODC.
Improving prioritization has become a tired concept in most IT departments, and yet it has the potential to change the conversation from one of cutting cost, to delivering valuable solutions as quick as the business needs it. This paper examines how Maersk Line applied an economic framework across a $100 million portfolio to quickly discover, nurture and speed up the delivery of value.
A successful Agile adoption requires ongoing engagement from everyone involved, including team members, managers and executive leadership. Social systems are complex adaptive systems that generate complicated and non-linear feedback. Engagement is an emergent property of social systems, and essential for effective and lasting Agile adoptions. This property does decay quickly, often resulting in poor...
Increasing globalization in the economic and other social areas has led to more and more expatriate assignment. Because much of this expatriate assignment has some problems, expatriate training has been respected very much. Many scholars consider that it has significant relation with expatriates' performance. By reviewing the expatriate training literature (Social learning Theory and other related...
Cultural integration has an important effect in improvement of joint venture management efficiency and enhancement of enterprises performance. Different from previous research that focused on the model and stage of cultural integration, this study focuses on the key factors influencing cultural integration. Through a case study of a Sino-Italian joint venture, this article applied grounded theory...
Service industries are playing an increasingly important role in economic growth. Many manufacturers are transforming themselves from product-centric into service-centric companies in order to gain an advantage in competitive markets. Leaders of such companies have to face the most pervasive challenge-achieving successful transformation without exposing their company to uncontrollable risk. The paper...
This research aims to understand the psychological empowerment, group cohesion and leader member exchange that affect on job behavior empirically. With a sample of 403 employees from 6 companies in Macau, we use statistical analysis and find out that perceived psychological empowerment and group cohesion influence positive behavior and withdrawal behavior of employees in the workplace through the...
The construction industry is generally a high producer of waste. The implementation of waste minimization strategies on construction sites can potentially make a significant contribution to the sustainability of construction industry. However, there are several pitfalls to waste control on construction sites. This study was a preliminary effort to identify relative importance of factors influencing...
This study examines mechanism that stimulated needs for advanced skills in management and engineering, which eventually increase demand for skilled workers. It is important and urgent in the case of Malaysia, whereby the supply of required skills for accelerating economic transformation is critically insufficient. As an attempt to provide an insight into the issue of developing skills, a case study...
The ability to generate new knowledge and to transfer, use and apply existing knowledge is a crucial factor for systems in general and for companies in particular if they want to be capable to meet the future. One of the essential requirements for this process is the vision of the system. This vision has to adhere to certain criteria, i.e. transcendence of existing boundaries, commonly shared commitment...
This paper presents findings on organizational agility as an aim of implementing Knowledge Management (KM). These findings are contextualized by examining the leadership roles and the tasks that achieve this goal. In particular we examine structures in KM: of the authority, of the development, and of the implementation of KM strategy that support agility. Using data from a global survey we find definition...
The aim of this plenary talk is to share with the audience our knowledge and advancements in research and innovation in Transportation and Mobility. First part will be devoted to the main regional research projects leaded by the University of Valenciennes and Hainaut Cambresis in partnership with several Universities and Research Centers. Mainly two major structuring projects will be described: the...
This paper describes the need for Value Based Requirement Prioritization (VBRP) in Core Banking transformation programs. We describe the VBRP tool selected for this purpose and how it was customized for use in a large product implementation in a bank. In the original VBRP tool developed before this experience we had hierarchical prioritization for various levels for requirements like modules, sub...
This systematic review paper integrates and analyzes previous empirical results between 2002–2012 to characterize the theories and variables that examine the leadership-innovation relationship. Even though there were many studies examining the effects of leadership on various types of innovation, the empirical results showing the leadership-product innovation relationship were scarce. Among a variety...
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