• 제목/요약/키워드: Cognitive processes knowledge

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효과적인 지리 교수.학습을 위한 유추의 이해와 활용 (The Use of Analogy in Teaching and Learning Geography)

  • 이종원;함경림
    • 대한지리학회지
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    • 제46권4호
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    • pp.534-553
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    • 2011
  • 유추는 익숙한 문제(바탕문제)의 해결방법을 활용하여 유사한 문제(표적문제)를 해결하는 문제해결 전략이다. 본 연구의 목적은 유추적 사고의 관점에서 지리적 문제상황을 새롭게 인식하고, 나아가 지역학습, 그래픽을 활용한 문제해결, 사례학습을 통한 개념/기능 습득에 유용한 교수 학습 방안을 제시하는 것이다. 이를 위해 유추의 의미를 파악하고, 유추 관련 이론들을 통해 유추의 발생 매커니즘과 성공적인 유추적 문제해결의 조건을 논의하였다. 주요 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 공간적 유추 아이디어는 지역학습을 조직하는 유용한 방법을 제공할 수 있다. 특히, 지리적 내용지식과 시 공간적 사고를 동시에 요구하는 공간적 유추는 영역특수적 문제해결 전략으로서 가능성을 갖고 있다. 둘째, 그래픽을 활용한 문제해결의 전이를 의미하는 표상전이는 정보의 시각화, 공간화를 필요로 하는 지리적 문제를 해결하는데 중요한 역할을 한다. 셋째, 표면적으로는 다르지만 공통의 내적구조를 갖는 유사한 사례들을 제시한 후 비교 분석하게 하거나, 가교 역할의 사례를 제시하는 방법은 지리적 개념, 기능의 습득에 유용하다. 결론에서는 유추 관련 지리교육 분야의 연구 주제와 이러한 연구가 갖는 중요성을 제시하였다.

업무성과에 영향을 주는 업무용 모바일 어플리케이션의 주요 요인에 관한 연구 (An Empirical Study on the Influencing Factors of Perceived Job Performance in the Context of Enterprise Mobile Applications)

  • 정성훈;김기민
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • 제24권1호
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    • pp.31-50
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    • 2014
  • The ubiquitous accessibility of information through mobile devices has led to an increased mobility of workers from their fixed workplaces. Market researchers estimate that by 2016, 350 million workers will be using their smartphones for business purposes, and the use of smartphones will offer new business benefits. Enterprises are now adopting mobile technologies for numerous applications to increase their operational efficiency, improve their responsiveness and competitiveness, and cultivate their innovativeness. For these reasons, various organizational aspects concerning "mobile work" have received a great deal of recent attention. Moreover, many CIOs plan to allocate a considerable amount of their budgets mobile work environments. In particular, with the consumerization of information technology, enterprise mobile applications (EMA) have played a significant role in the explosive growth of mobile computing in the workplace, and even in improving sales for firms in this field. EMA can be defined as mobile technologies and role-based applications, as companies design them for specific roles and functions in organizations. Technically, EMA can be defined as business enterprise systems, including critical business functions that enable users to access enterprise systems via wireless mobile devices, such as smartphones or tablets. Specifically, EMA enables employees to have greater access to real-time information, and provides them with simple features and functionalities that are easy for them to complete specific tasks. While the impact of EMA on organizational workers' productivity has been given considerable attention in various literatures, relatively little research effort has been made to examine how EMA actually lead to users' job performance. In particular, we have a limited understanding of what the key antecedents are of such an EMA usage outcome. In this paper, we focus on employees' perceived job performance as the outcome of EMA use, which indicates the successful role of EMA with regard to employees' tasks. Thus, to develop a deeper understanding of the relationship among EMA, its environment, and employees' perceived job performance, we develop a comprehensive model that considers the perceived-fit between EMA and employees' tasks, satisfaction on EMA, and the organizational environment. With this model, we try to examine EMA to explain how job performance through EMA is revealed from both the task-technology fit for EMA and satisfaction on EMA, while also considering the antecedent factors for these constructs. The objectives of this study are to address the following research questions: (1) How can employees successfully manage EMA in order to enhance their perceived job performance? (2) What internal and/or external factors are important antecedents in increasing EMA users' satisfaction on MES and task-technology fit for EMA? (3) What are the impacts of organizational (e.g. organizational agility), and task-related antecedents (e.g., task mobility) on task-technology fit for EMA? (4) What are the impacts of internal (e.g., self-efficacy) and external antecedents (e.g., system reputation) for the habitual use of EMA? Based on a survey from 254 actual employees who use EMA in their workplace across industries, our results indicate that task-technology fit for EMA and satisfaction on EMA are positively associated with job performance. We also identify task mobility, organizational agility, and system accessibility that are found to be positively associated with task-technology fit for EMA. Further, we find that external factor, such as the reputation of EMA, and internal factor, such as self-efficacy for EMA that are found to be positively associated with the satisfaction of EMA. The present findings enable researchers and practitioners to understand the role of EMA, which facilitates organizational workers' efficient work processes, as well as the importance of task-technology fit for EMA. Our model provides a new set of antecedents and consequence variables for a TAM involving mobile applications. The research model also provides empirical evidence that EMA are important mobile services that positively influence individuals' performance. Our findings suggest that perceived organizational agility and task mobility do have a significant influence on task-technology fit for EMA usage through positive beliefs about EMA, that self-efficacy and system reputation can also influence individuals' satisfaction on EMA, and that these factors are important contingent factors for the impact of system satisfaction and perceived job performance. Our findings can help managers gauge the impact of EMA in terms of its contribution to job performance. Our results provide an explanation as to why many firms have recently adopted EMA for efficient business processes and productivity support. Our findings additionally suggest that the cognitive fit between task and technology can be an important requirement for the productivity support of EMA. Further, our study findings can help managers in formulating their strategies and building organizational culture that can affect employees perceived job performance. Managers, thus, can tailor their dependence on EMA as high or low, depending on their task's characteristics, to maximize the job performance in the workplace. Overall, this study strengthens our knowledge regarding the impact of mobile applications in organizational contexts, technology acceptance and the role of task characteristics. To conclude, we hope that our research inspires future studies exploring digital productivity in the workplace and/or taking the role of EMA into account for employee job performance.