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Assessing Social and Work Environmental Factors Towards Women Upward Career Development: An Empirical Study from Pakistan

  • KHURSHID, Nabila;NASEER, Aleena;KHURSHID, Jamila;KHOKHAR, Arif Masih;IRFAN, Muhammad
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.53-61
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    • 2022
  • The goal of this research was to find the relationship between the work environment and societal issues that impede women's advancement to senior management positions. The study included 500 women professionals from diverse firms in Pakistan's business sector, of whom 100 were chosen as the sample size using a purposive sampling method. Experts confirmed the validity of the study tool, which was a questionnaire, and Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to verify its reliability (0.704-0.982). The model's standardized regression coefficients suggested that social factors (0.298) were the most important factors determining women's empowerment in terms of career development and that they were further influenced by factors related to the work environment (0.411). It was concluded that organizational rules for female employees assist them to maintain a balance between work and family, resulting in a less stressful working environment. The role of the social factor as a mediator is also thought to be important in maintaining a healthier work environment in companies. It was also determined that much more work needs to be done on promotional regulations, as well as gender-blind legislation so that women's professional advancement is not limited to middle management.

Role of corporate culture in shaping up innovative, strategy-driven corporation (혁신적 전략기업 형성을 위한 기업문화의 역할)

  • 이원창;서의호
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.22-25
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    • 2000
  • With the dawn of the 21st century, the corporate business environment started to witness the unprecedented, intense competition on global basis. As a result, the kind of corporate business activity that can respond swiftly to the new changes emerged as one of the most critical factors to increase corporate competitiveness. Being reborn as a strategy-focused organization means seeking innovation. And the strategy not involving innovation is just meaningless. It is this innovation that lies at the heart of the corporate strategy, and that is the only way for continuation of the corporation. The most important pending issue facing companies today is to bolster corporate competencies fit for new business environment, to develop corporate culture required for getting competitiveness edge back, and ultimately to put the company on the continued growth path. Corporate culture, as the very underlying belief and philosophy, is not just woven into the fabric of the corporate management strategy and into the way the company is doing its business. It also, as a regulation and norm for its employees to stick by, affects the way they think and behave. This paper aims at presenting the role of the corporate culture in working out problems encountered by companies today, like corporate innovation, instilling vitality to the organization, beefing up the underlying corporate capabilities, and making transformation required by the changing business environment.

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The Effect of Psychological Well-Being on Life Satisfaction for Employees

  • Jung, Myung-Hee
    • The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.35-42
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    • 2017
  • Purpose - This study investigated small business members' cognition of happiness in accordance with changes of employment environment at the nation's industrialization. The study verified effects of labor workers' psychological wellbeing conditions upon life satisfaction as well as the effects of job burden and family burden of employment instability. Research design, data, and methodology - The subjects were small business workers in Seoul and Metropolitan areas. The author collected 150 copies of effective questionnaires. Regression analysis, hierarchical analysis and 3-stage mediation regression analysis were done. Results - The findings of this research was that psychological wellbeing factors alleviated job burden and family burden to increase satisfaction with life. Employment instability moderated between job burden and satisfaction with life, job burden between environmental control and satisfaction with life, and family burden between goal and satisfaction of life. Members needed sub factors of psychological wellbeing, especially reflection for self-acceptance. Conclusions - This study inspected effects of small business workers' psychological wellbeing upon life satisfaction at changes of management environment as well as labor environment to verify effects of job burden, family burden and employment instability and to find out conditions of human resources management from point of view of small business and workers.

A Study on the Conceptual Design of Smart App Authoring Tool

  • Chang, Young-Hyun
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.118-123
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    • 2015
  • IT environment gets more complicated in terms of open platform, network standards, device design and hardware, etc. Smart network and application are in the fields of corporate as well as national competition for future fusion technology. In development environment focused on computers, the ideas of authoring tool have been presented in terms of improved software productivity. In smart environment where subdividing works are consecutively done, current authoring tool should be effectively updated for effective development of programs and easier access to business works. The basic concept of a new conceptual App development tool, Smart App Authoring Tool, which has been designed in this study and enables to apply on-site requirements to smart phones, is to develop Apps on the level using easy-to-learn Word or Excel in a computer. Therefore, this study is intended to design a conceptual Smart App Authoring Tool to optimize the cost and time for developing and maintaining new application services under various smart phone platform environments. Based on the performance of smart app authoring tool herein, every people can develop a smart app program at moderate level. So this paper have designed a conceptual smart app authoring tool. This study presented educational efficiency of the authoring tool by developing business Apps under various business environments and applying them under university and high school environments.

Determinants of Business Education on Student Satisfaction in Higher Education: A Case Study in Cambodia

  • LONG, Sovang;DUANG-EK-ANONG, Somsit;VONGURAI, Rawin
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.1405-1416
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    • 2021
  • The study uses an innovative management perspective to investigate the environment of higher education institutions to ensure the survival of universities in Cambodia. This has led Cambodian universities to expand their educational offerings to students in Years 2, 3 and 4. The data was collected through a Google Forms survey to facilitate and accelerate data collection. The sample of 500 students come from three higher education institution by employing multi-stage sampling technique of probability and non-probability sampling methods to ensure representation of the research population. The data were analyzed by using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Structural Equation Model (SEM) to investigate the impact of these determinants on students' satisfaction and loyalty, via answering 54 questions. The results showed that the three Cambodian universities perform well in terms of satisfactory conditions such as transformative quality and university image. There are four issues to which universities need to pay attention, namely, teaching methods, infrastructure facilities, learning material, and academic environment that are yet to meet the needs of students. This study contributes to the principle of innovative management in the context of Cambodian academic environment. The results help to fathom the depth of enhancing quality and institutional survival.

A Multi-functional Memorandum System for Managing Information Intelligently (지능적 정보관리를 위한 다기능 메모관리 시스템)

  • Choi, Jun-Il;Kim, Soon-Cheol;Chang, Joong-Hyuk
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.89-95
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    • 2010
  • Currently memorandum have been a method to manage information easily by short writing. In particular, a electronic memorandum system has been efficiently used for business purpose, which is available in a computer widely used in our daily life. Considering the smart business environment, we propose a multi-functional electronic memorandum system in this paper, which is helpful to manage information intelligently in the smart business environment. The proposed system maintains the contents of memorandum in a database structure, so it is available without any restrictions in time and place. In addition, it also has additional functions of music playing, capturing working screens, and scheduling. The functions help for the proposed system to be widely used in the smart business environment.

A SOA Service Identification Model Based on Hierarchical Ontology (계층적 온톨로지 기반의 SOA서비스 식별 모델)

  • Park, Sei-Kwon;Choi, Ko-Bong
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.323-340
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    • 2013
  • As the importance of collaboration becomes critical in today's open and complex business environment network, the issues and solutions on compatibility and reusability between different kinds of applications are being increasingly important as well in systems analysis and design. And therefore, service-centered SOA is receiving attention in such business environment as a strategic approach that makes possible for prompt action according to the needs of users and business process. Various implementation methodologies have been proposed for SOA, however, in practical aspects most of them have some problems since they fail to propose specific policies in definition and identification of services for the exact user requirements and business situations. To solve or alleviate those problems, this paper suggests a new service identification model based on hierarchical ontology, where three different ontologies such as business ontology, context ontology and service ontology are proposed to define the relationship and design the link between user requirements, business process, applications and services. Through a suggested methodology in this paper, it would be possible to provide proactive services that meets a variety of business environments and demands of user. Also, since the information can be modified adaptively and dynamically by hierarchical ontology, this study is expected to play a positive role in increasing the flexibility of systems and business environments.

The Effect of Environmental and Organizational Characteristics of the Fashion Companies on Continuous Acceptance Intention and Performance of the Internet Business (패션 기업의 환경특성 및 조직특성이 지속적인 인터넷 비즈니스 수용의도 및 성과에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Eun-Jin
    • Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.427-436
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze whether environmental and organizational characteristics have an effect on continuous acceptance intention and performance of the internet business in fashion companies. A survey was conducted from January 15 to February 15 in 2009, among members of fashion companies carrying out internet business. The data was collected with 288 subjects, the statistical analysis methods were frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis and multiple regression analysis. The results of this study were as follows; First, environment characteristics(internal pressure, external pressure) and organizational characteristics(chief executive officer, capacity of the organization and future directivity) of the fashion companies had an effect on continuous acceptance intention of the internet business. Second, environment characteristics and organizational characteristics of the fashion companies had an partially effect on performance of the internet business. Third, elevation of the business, customer relationship improvement and raise the market reactivity in performance factors of the fashion companies had an effect on continuous acceptance intention of the internet business.

Estimation of the Demand Function of the Information and Communication Construction Business

  • Kwak, Jeong Ho;Lee, Jemin Justin;Lee, Han-Joo;Lee, Bong Gyou
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.9 no.8
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    • pp.3249-3257
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    • 2015
  • The smart convergence environment, in which all industries are converged around ICT infrastructure -- with the eventual inclusion of both industry and culture -- looms. With the emergence of new convergence industries such as smart medicine, smart cities, and smart automobiles, the ICT infrastructure is recognized as the foundation of the overall economy. As such, the importance of the next generation of information and communication construction businesses, which constructs the ICT infrastructure, is highlighted under the smart convergence paradigm environment; various multilateral policies to foster the information and communication construction business -- led by the Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning -- are being implemented. Like other infrastructure industries, however, the estimation of the demand function of the information and communication construction business overall is essential for effectively establishing promotional policies for information and communication construction businesses. However, there has been no study which theoretically estimates the market demand function in the information and communication construction business thus far. The pursuit of a creative economy is a national agenda, as the significance of accelerating the ICT infrastructure is emphasized. Therefore, this paper seeks to estimate quantitatively the demand function in the information and communication construction business using empirical data and a statistical model and then to present policy implications which will aid the development of the information and communication construction business.

Firms Collaboration in the E-Business Environment A System Dynamics Simulation

  • Kim, Bowon
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.163-163
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    • 2001
  • The primary research questions in this paper are why and how competing firms collaborate, not compete, in the virtual marketplace, e.g., B2B marketplace in the Internet environment. In order to answer the questions, we take on a system dynamics simulation approach: we consider two broad e-collaboration strategies: · Exclusive e-business strategy If the firm adopts this strategy, it allocates all of its resources (available for e-business development) to its own e-business capability building only. · Collaborative e-business strategy When the firm adopts a collaborative e-business strategy, it invests not only in its own, but also the industrys e-business capability building. From the system dynamics simulation results, we conclude that e-collaboration pays off in the long run: although it is hard to tell whether the collaborative strategy is better than the exclusive one during the initial period, it is unambiguous that the collaborative e-business strategy Performs much better in the long run. We infer that such collaboration could occur when the firms realize that they benefit from the expansion of the market demand due to their collaboration. That is, in order for such collaboration between competing firms to be sustainable, such collaboration should create more demand in the market so that each company could earn more profit even if it gets less in terms of market share.

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