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Exploring Employee Involvement and Quality Management Practices: A Review of the Literature

  • Pun, Kit-Fai
    • International Journal of Quality Innovation
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.123-144
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    • 2003
  • The trend towards employee involvement (EI) has redefined the employer-employee relationship and, for many organizations, has brought about a fundamental change in organizational performance. This paper begins with a review of EI concepts and typologies. It goes on to elaborate need for the adoption of EI practices and discuss the factors affecting the adoption. The main theme of the quality management (QM) literature will then be presented addressing its concepts, principles and elements. Drawing on the theoretical and practitioners' perspectives, the paper also discusses the significance of integrating EI/QM practices to sustain organizational performance improvement.

The efforts always will get gains? Risk perception of turnover and cost of changing job affect employee turnover: Evidence from Korea

  • Li, Liang;Elaydi, Salma;Shin, Geon-Cheol;Wei, Kaikai
    • Asia Pacific Journal of Business Review
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.1-18
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    • 2021
  • This present study investigatesed the impact of the team innovation-oriented human resource management (HRM) practices on employees' turnover intention among financial, pharmaceuticals, distribution, and manufacturing industries in Korea. Furthermore, we explored whether risk perception of turnover and the cost of changing job would mediate the relationship between team innovation-oriented human resource management practices with employees' turnover intention in different industries in Korea. To that end, PLS structural equation modeling was used to exam the research hypothesis. We have found that team innovation-oriented HRM practices have a significant impact on employees' turnover intention. Moreover, we have discovered risk perception of turnover and the switching cost of changing job playing mediating role in the relationship of team innovation-oriented HRM practices with turnover intention among different type of industries employee. Lastly, the theoretical implications were discussed based on these findings.

A Study on Factors Affecting Innovation Capability and Innovation Performance: Focused on SMEs Entering Overseas Market (혁신역량과 혁신성과에 영향을 주는 요인에 관한 연구: 해외시장진출 중소기업을 대상으로)

  • Lee, Youngdeuk;Kang, Myungsoo;Kim, Byoungjai
    • The Journal of Small Business Innovation
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.1-16
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting innovation capability and innovation performance of midsize company entering overseas market. More specifically, in terms of managerial, organizational, and employee - level factors, we set leadership, operating system, and taking charge at work as variables influencing innovation capability and tried to understand the effect of innovation capability on innovation performance through empirical studies. In addition, we examined the differences in the influence factors on innovation capability and the effect on innovation performance in the home country and overseas countries. As a result of the empirical analysis, all of the influence factors had a positive effect on the innovation capability and the innovation capability had a positive effect on the innovation performance. The degree of influence was in the order of operating system, leadership and taking charge at work. In China, there is no significant difference in the order of operating system, leadership and taking charge at work. In the case of Korea, operating system and leadership have a positive effect, but the employee's taking charge at work does not affect innovation capability. The results of this study are as follows. First, it is necessary to enhance innovation capability in accordance with local characteristics. In Korea, there are additional activities to induce employee's taking charge at work is required for improved innovation capability and innovation performance.

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An Empirical Study on the Relationships among Employee Silence, Learning Inertia, and Knowledge Sharing Disengagement (구성원 침묵, 학습관성, 지식공유 비열의 간의 관계에 관한 실증연구)

  • Heo, Myung Sook;Cheon, Myun Joong
    • Knowledge Management Research
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.31-62
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    • 2017
  • It found that employee silence negatively impacts both organizations and their employees as shown in findings from many studies and recently there has been a growing interest in it. Silence is described as intentionally withholding job-related ideas, information, concerns, and opinions. Employee silence may decrease organizational change and innovation and reduce employee learning motivation and knowledge sharing engagement as well. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships among silence motivations, perceived silence climate, and employee silence; the relationships among employee silence, learning inertia and knowledge sharing disengagement; the mediating role of employee silence between antecedents of employee silence and consequences additionally. The results that analyzed using data from 225 employees in 42 organizations are as follows. First, the impact of silence motivation and perceived silence climate on employee silence are positively significant. Second, the influence of defensive silence motivation on the acquiescent and relational silence motivation is positively significant. Third, the influence of employee silence on learning inertia and knowledge sharing disengagement is positively significant. Forth, employee silence mediates the relationship between silence motivation and perceived silence climate and learning inertia and knowledge sharing disengagement. These results suggest that employee silence is another strong expression and message for organizations to try to establish a learning organization from the perspective of knowledge management.

Organisational Management of Quality and Its Importance : a Case of a Telecommunication Firm in UK

  • Hwang, I.P.;Word, A.E.;Hong, H.D.;Miborrow, G.C.
    • Journal of Technology Innovation
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.178-206
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    • 1997
  • This study is concerned with the importance of TQM factors, and their characteristics on quality management. Key aspects of management commitment and ploicy, quality department and communication, equipment and material management, training, and employee relations etc. in TQM measurement, their theoretical background and employee perception about their importance intensively are investigated. In the importance of TQM, quality department and communication, quality and reporting, and rpoduction process management appeared to have a low rating while management commitment and quality policy, internal customer and supplier have a comparatively high value. And some perception for these factor showed difference between production and non-production department; internal customer and supplier, production process management, and employee relation.

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The Effect of Digitalization and Virtual Leadership on Organizational Innovation During the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis: A Case Study in Indonesia

  • HUTAJULU, Richard Surungan;SUSITA, Dewi;ELIYANA, Anis
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.8 no.10
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    • pp.57-64
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    • 2021
  • In the last decade, the effect of digitalization was the most cited issue in economic discourse, especially since technological advances, automation, and artificial intelligence are the key to the future discussions. Unemployment is one of the most important and continuous debates, especially in times of crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the influence of leadership style in innovation organizations to deal with the crisis. In this study, a non-probability purposive sampling method was used. A total of 377 respondents were from LinkedIn social media in Indonesia, with the criteria of employees who have worked for at least 6 years. The structural equation model was analyzed with Amos 25.0. The results show that virtual, servant, and transformational leadership influence employee creativity. Moreover, employee creativity strongly influences organizational innovation; therefore, a new model was found to meet the challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, which is leadership. Therefore, these results are useful for managers to overcome challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis to manage employee creativity for a better innovative organization and make science a reference for finding solutions to the global wave of unemployment in the revolution 5.0 era.

Organizational Effectiveness of Korean Information and Communication Industry Employees : Focus on Organization Culture, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment and Turnover Intention

  • KIM, Boine
    • Fourth Industrial Review
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.11-22
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    • 2021
  • Purpose- The purpose of this study is to give implications on how to decrease employee turnover intention of Korean information and communication industry employees using organization culture, job satisfaction and organizational commitment. To do that this study analyzes relationships among variables and analyses mediating effect of job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Research design, data, and methodology- To analyze relationships among organization culture, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover intention of employees, this study used the 7th KRIVET's HCCP employee data especially employees working in the information and communication industry who has more than university degree education. The analysis is conducted by using SPSS 21 and frequency analysis correlation analysis, regression analysis and mediating effect are analyzed by using MACRO PROCESS procedure for SPSS. Result- According to the empirical results, organization culture of innovation, relation and rational directed significantly affect both job satisfaction and organizational commitment. And job satisfaction and organizational commitment significantly affect each other. Turnover intention is significantly affected by job satisfaction, organizational commitment, innovation directed and hierarchy directed. However, the influence of innovation and hierarchy showed conflicting results. Conclusion- Based on this study result, implications to manage the turnover intention of Korean employees in the information and communication industry are discussed. Especially, the effect of organization culture, job satisfaction and organizational commitment is discussed. And the mediating role of job satisfaction and organizational commitment is also analyzed. Result implicates that cautious approach is needed in managing organization culture to employee attitude of job and organization is needed

A Study on the Influence of Middle Managers' Leadership on Organizational Innovation in General Hospitals - Focused on the Moderating Effect of Employee's Readiness (병원중간관리자의 리더십과 조직혁신성 간의 관계에서 구성원 성숙도의 조절효과분석)

  • Kim, Hee Rae;Kim, Young Hoon;Kim, Han Sung;Woo, Jung Sik
    • Korea Journal of Hospital Management
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.50-62
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    • 2016
  • The study was conducted to compare organizational innovation depending on the leadership type of middle managers in general hospital. Moreover, the study was also to prove whether employees'readiness causes any differences to the link between leadership and organizational innovation. The result is based on 769 sheets of survey paper answered by administrations and nurses working at general hospitals or the same level of hospitals located in the metropolitan area. The methods of analysis used are as follows: reliability analysis, frequency analysis, t-test, ANOVA, multiple regression analysis, and hierarchical regression analysis. Main results of the study can be summarized as below. First, by analyzing the influence of task-behavior leadership on organizational innovation, R squre on knowledge management which is organizational innovation factor was 12.5%, R squre on creativity was 9.1%, and R squre on innovation behavior was 10.3%. Regression model appeared to be statistically significant as well. Both task-behavior and relationship-behavior leadership have influence on organizational innovation and it is learned that relationship-behavior leadership has a bigger influence on all the organizational innovation factors. Second, moderating effect of the employee's readiness is examined in terms of the link between leadership and organizational innovation. As a result, the member's readiness had positive influence when it comes to the link between leadership and organizational innovation. Also, after verifying moderating effect of readiness (ability/willingness), this study shows that ability readiness has positive influence on the link between task-behavior(or relationship-behavior) leadership and creativity, and innovation behavior while willingness readiness positively influences the link between task-behavior(or relationship-behavior) leadership and creativity & innovation behavior. To summarize results of the study, this study shows that the members who possess high readiness also have high organizational innovation, which promises their positive role in a group.

Individualized Consideration Leadership Behavior and Employee's Organizational Commitment: The Moderating Effect of Need-for-Achievement (개별배려적 리더십행위와 구성원의 조직몰입: 성취욕구의 조절효과에 관한 연구)

  • Suh Jung-Ha
    • Journal of Technology Innovation
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.255-276
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    • 2006
  • This study aims to investigate hypotheses for the effects of leaders' individualized consideration leadership behaviors(Bass, 1985) and employee's organizational commitment. It is proposed that individualized consideration leadership behaviors will positively effect on employee's organizational commitment. And to understand the importance of followers' characteristics in recent leadership studies, it is also proposed that the follower's need for achievement(N-Arch) moderates in the relationship of individualized consideration leadership behaviors and organizational commitment. After descriptive survey, research model setup, and field survey, this empirical study investigated the above mentioned hypotheses thru SPSS for Windows 12.0. It involved linear regression analysis to reveal the significant main effect of the individualized consideration leadership behaviors. It also revealed moderating regression analysis to reveal the significant moderating effects of need for achievement between the independent variables(individualized consideration leadership behaviors) and dependent variable(the organizational commitment). Results revealed that leaders' individualized consideration leadership behaviors positively affected to its employee's organizational commitment(Hypothesis 1). And positive moderating effect of N-Arch was strongly supported between leader's individualized consideration leadership behaviors and follower's organizational commitment (Hypothesis 2).

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Factors Affecting Usage and Performance of Information Technology in Daedeok Valley and Zhongguancun Venture Firms (한중 벤처기업의 정보기술 활용 및 성과에 관한 연구: 대덕밸리와 중관촌을 중심으로)

  • Hwang, Kyung-Yun;Moon, Hee-Cheol
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.163-184
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this research is to examine the major determinants affecting the usage and performance of information technologies in Daedeok Valley and Zhongguancun venture firms. The development of the research model is based on the theoretical linkages of IDT (Innovation Diffusion Theory) and TAM(Technology Acceptance Model). Seven hypotheses are derived and tested using regression analysis. The results from regression analysis suggest that the usage of Information technologies is affected by innovation characteristics (perceived usefulness) as well as organizational characteristics (top management support, employee capability on information technology acceptance) in Daedeok Valley venture firms. But, The results from regression analysis suggest that the usage of Information technologies is affected by innovation characteristics (perceived usefulness), organizational characteristics (top management support, employee capability on information technology acceptance), and external pressure (environmental uncertainty, intensity of competition) in Zhongguancun venture firms.

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