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Cases Study of Accidents in High Risk Organizations by System Dynamics (시스템 다이내믹스 기법을 활용한 고위험 조직 사고 사례 분석)

  • Oh, Youngmin;Ryu, Jin
    • Korean System Dynamics Review
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.5-29
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    • 2015
  • The importance of the concept of safety culture has increased in the security of high-risk facility after Chernobyl accident in 1986. This paper elaborated the concept of safety culture and its main factors by Causal Loop Diagram. Due to the decline of safety culture, the occurrence of incidents and accidents require more and more corrective actions to the members of high-risk facilities and thereby increasing their workloads. Employees who must complete the task within the given time have to have time pressures and don't comply with the rules and procedures. Also, a schedule pressure is a big stress for employees, causing mistakes in precision work. In order to improve these problems, CLD of the safety culture in this paper suggests hiring more workers, re-allocation of given workloads and strengthen the learning, communication capabilities and safety leadership. In addition, the two real accident cases were analyzed to test the feasibility of the System Dynamic simulation model through the process of structuring the fault trees on the stationary black out accident in Kori unit 1 in South Korea and Kleen Energy power station explosion in US. The simulation results show that the various safety factors cause the serious accident combined with mechanical failure and safety culture will reduce the possibility of the accidents in these high-risk organizations. This simulation model can contribute to analyzing the impact of the organizational and human factors of safety culture and can provide the alternatives in high-risk facilities.

The Performance and Implication of Policy Coordination of Prime Minister's Office (국무총리실의 정책조정 성과와 함의)

  • Ha, Min-Cheol
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.73-83
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    • 2013
  • Effective policy coordination is necessary function for successful policy implementation. Korean government, for effective policy coordination, had developed the policy coordination system in the Prime Minister's Office. The Prime Minister's Office had successfully implemented policy coordination tasks during 35 years. The Prime Minister's Office had systemized policy coordination institutions and developed organizational capacity for effective coordination, and utilized various strategies, such as power, persuasion, and technical strategy. Based on the system, capacity, and various strategies, ]the Prime Minister's Office had achieved 90% of the asked policy conflict problems and completed 85% of coordination tasks within 6 months. The purpose of this study is for reviewing the performance of successful coordination of Prime Minister's Office and searching for some implications. For the study, the author analyzed the 429 policy conflict problems which had been recorded in 8 Policy Coordination White Papers.

OBSERVABILITY-IN-DEPTH: AN ESSENTIAL COMPLEMENT TO THE DEFENSE-IN-DEPTH SAFETY STRATEGY IN THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY

  • Favaro, Francesca M.;Saleh, Joseph H.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.46 no.6
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    • pp.803-816
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    • 2014
  • Defense-in-depth is a fundamental safety principle for the design and operation of nuclear power plants. Despite its general appeal, defense-in-depth is not without its drawbacks, which include its potential for concealing the occurrence of hazardous states in a system, and more generally rendering the latter more opaque for its operators and managers, thus resulting in safety blind spots. This in turn translates into a shrinking of the time window available for operators to identify an unfolding hazardous condition or situation and intervene to abate it. To prevent this drawback from materializing, we propose in this work a novel safety principle termed "observability-in-depth". We characterize it as the set of provisions technical, operational, and organizational designed to enable the monitoring and identification of emerging hazardous conditions and accident pathogens in real-time and over different time-scales. Observability-in-depth also requires the monitoring of conditions of all safety barriers that implement defense-in-depth; and in so doing it supports sensemaking of identified hazardous conditions, and the understanding of potential accident sequences that might follow (how they can propagate). Observability-in-depth is thus an information-centric principle, and its importance in accident prevention is in the value of the information it provides and actions or safety interventions it spurs. We examine several "event reports" from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission database, which illustrate specific instances of violation of the observability-in-depth safety principle and the consequences that followed (e.g., unmonitored releases and loss of containments). We also revisit the Three Mile Island accident in light of the proposed principle, and identify causes and consequences of the lack of observability-in-depth related to this accident sequence. We illustrate both the benefits of adopting the observability-in-depth safety principle and the adverse consequences when this principle is violated or not implemented. This work constitutes a first step in the development of the observability-in-depth safety principle, and we hope this effort invites other researchers and safety professionals to further explore and develop this principle and its implementation.

A Mediation Analysis of Absorption Capacity by Bootstrapping Technique in Multiple Mediator Model (다중매개모델에서 bootstrapping기법을 이용한 흡수능력의 매개효과 분석)

  • Kim, Hyun-Woo;Lee, Hong-Bae;Shin, Yong-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.89-96
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    • 2015
  • The mediation methods suggested by Baron and Kenny, Sobel, Aroian and Goodman, have widely used to test the mediating effect. However, as there are many problems in statistical test power, as well as statistical accuracy, a bootstrapping technique has been suggested as an alternative. In this paper, we adopt the phantom variables based on the bootstrapping technique to test the mediating effect in multiple mediator model consisting of three or more mediating variables. In particular, we formulate the multiple mediator model for analyzing the relations among organizational resources, the absorption capacity as mediating variables and technology commercialization capabilities. And using the bootstrapping approach, we analyzed the mediating effect of the absorption capacity by setting of phantom variables and calculated total indirect effect size and the statistical significance. The empirical results are as follows. First, we confirmed that the bootstrapping approach and the phantom variable is the very efficient and systematic mediation method. Second, we recognized that there is a difference in the mediating characteristics of the absorption capacity depending on the resource characteristics of human resources and material resources obviously.

A Study on NSW's Guide Book for the Boat Driver's Licence (호주 NSW 주 수상레저 선박의 면허지침에 관한 사례 연구)

  • Choi Ah-Ok;Noh Chang-Kyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2006.06b
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    • pp.247-253
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    • 2006
  • NSW in Australia is famous for beautiful beaches and water activities. There are now almost 450,000 people who hold a NSW power boat driving licence and 200.000 registered boat owners. The popularity of boating continues to grow with licence and registration figures increasing by 3-4 per cent each year. This is a survey about the guide book for boating licence in NSW. This study outlines the essential information such as the types of licence, registration of vessels, choosing the right boat, maintain vessel, safety equipment and preparing for a safe boating trip. In addition, it touches the technical side like boat handling, water traffic rules, navigation markers, emergency and the ways to avoid them. Recently, more and more people are interested in boating. It forms an important part of recreational and tourism activities. To manage these demands effectively and to provide the orderly and safe leisure hours, it is necessary to induce more organizational and serviceable boating licence system.

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Job Assignment basis on Assistant-staff for The Information security improvement of Public Institution (공공기관 정보보안수준 향상을 위한 분임담당자 중심 업무분장 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Sang-Kyoon;Kim, In-Seok
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.20 no.11
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    • pp.2007-2013
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    • 2016
  • It was found to have hacking attempts totaling 115,000 to target the public sector since 2011 to 2015. National Intelligence Service was conducting survey information security management states of a wide range of national-public institutions up to 800 including government agencies in the 2012, while instructing to complement shortcomings. However, there is still going to occur invasions, such as Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power hacking. Even though KHNP's security personnel was only 53 people, in the total 20,000 workforces, got the almost perfect score in the 2013 and 2014 related to information security personnel. Through them, we can confirm that between the organizational response to information security incidents and something theoretical is very far. In this paper, we suggest solutions not using the professional staff management but the non-professional staff management to upgrade the level of public agencies information security.

Analysis of Business Strategy for Korean Ethnic Media Companies based on Resource Based View (글로벌 한국어 방송사의 경영전략 연구 : 기업자원모델을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Jongha;Chung, Yoonkyung
    • Review of Culture and Economy
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.147-170
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    • 2016
  • This study has identified the current status and challenges to development of Korean Ethnic Media Companies in North America, China, and Australia New Zealand and aimed to understand implication of cultural policy. It examines the media circumstances, business resources of Korean Ethnic Media Companies(KEMC), and Korean ethnic broadcasting aid project which is operated for 10 years, and interviewed nine CEOs' of KEMC. According to the analysis, KEMCs in North America are in the market which is fully exposed to competition. China's KEMCs are the "limitedly localized market" which is supported by the government's regulatory for minority media. Australia & New Zealande's KEMCs are the market which potential growth is expected. North American KEMCs are needed to upgrade the business structure and organizational resources for content differentiation. China's KEMCs have to diversify financial resources and to consolidate content power. and Australia & New Zealande's KEMCs need support & cooperatation from home country for ensuring high-quality content.

A Free Agent Algorithm for Min-Cut Problem (최소절단 문제의 자유계약 알고리즘)

  • Lee, Sang-Un
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.27-33
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    • 2019
  • The min-cut problem that decides the maximum flow in a complex network flows from source(s) to sink(t) is known as a hard problem. The augmenting path algorithm divides into single path and decides the bottleneck point(edge), but the min-cut section to be decide additionally. This paper suggests O(n) time complexity heuristic greedy algorithm for the number of vertices n that applies free agent system in a pro-sports field. The free agent method assumes $N_G(S),N_G(T)$vertices among $v{\in}V{\backslash}\{s,t\}$to free agent players, and this players transfer into the team that suggest more annual income. As a result of various networks, this algorithm can be finds all of min-cut sections and min-cut value for whole cases.

Problems of Decentralization in Korea and Its Development Direction (한국 지방분권의 문제점과 발전방향)

  • Park, Jong Gwan
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.22 no.7
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    • pp.126-135
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    • 2022
  • Decentralization is a structural characteristic surrounding the allocation of power within an organization and is discussed at the organizational, national and local levels. This study examined the evaluation and decentralization direction of decentralization of public officials to derive problems and development directions of decentralization in Korea. We also derive our decentralization task. The decentralization task is, first, the expansion of autonomy in organization composition. The organization of local governments shall be determined according to the details and amount of local affairs. Second, it is to secure autonomy in personnel management. It is desirable for local governments to handle local gardens and manpower management autonomously rather than central uniform control. However, it is necessary to leave the checks and supervision to the local council, civic groups, and local residents. Third, the expansion of fiscal decentralization. First of all, the tax rate should be determined by ordinance within the scope prescribed by law to expand the autonomous financial authority. Next, it is necessary to expand local finances through the conversion of national taxes to local taxes. Next, it is necessary to expand local income taxes and local consumption taxes. Decentralization requires cooperation between the central and local governments and participation of local residents and stakeholders, breaking away from central unilateral and short-term thinking.

Factors Affecting on Nursing Service Quality of Small and Medium-sized Hospital Nurses (중소병원 간호사의 간호서비스 질에 미치는 영향요인)

  • Yeo, Su-Yeon;Song, In-Ja
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.331-340
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    • 2022
  • A descriptive study was attempted to identify the factors affecting of nursing organization culture, communication competence, and professionalism on nursing service quality of small and medium-sized hospital nurses. The study were 166 nurses from hospital nurses located in G metropolitan city, and the data collection period was from August 22 to August 30, 2019. Data were analyzed PASW 18.0 program. As a result, the factors affecting on nursing service quality were professionalism(𝛽=.485, p<.001), communication competence(𝛽=.354, p<.001), hierarchy-oriented organization culture(𝛽=.154, p<.01). The adequacy of the multiple regression model was very significant at the F statistic 64.75(p<.001), explanatory power of 54.6%. Based on this study, it can be useful as basic data for exploring ways to improve nursing service quality and developing nursing intervention programs.