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개인의료정보 자기결정권 행사 의도에 영향을 미치는 요인 (Factors Affecting the Intention to Adopt Self-Determination Rights of Personal Medical Information)

  • 구윤모;홍성우;김범수
    • 경영정보학연구
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    • 제20권1호
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    • pp.159-177
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    • 2018
  • 정보통신기술의 발전과 함께 인터넷 상에서 유통되는 디지털 정보의 양과 범위가 급격히 증가하고 있다. 주목할 점은 개인정보의 가치가 광범위하게 인식되면서 의도치 않은 유출과 그에 따른 프라이버시 침해와 같은 부작용 역시 빠르게 증가하고 있다는 것이다. 이러한 개인정보 침해로 인한 정보주체의 피해를 구제하기 위해 전세계 각국은 법률적으로 개인정보 자기결정권을 구체화하고 있으나 실제 현장에서 행사되는 경우는 매우 드문 것으로 나타나고 있다. 특히, 일반적 형태의 개인정보에 비해 개인의 신체 및 건강, 진료 등에 대한 민감한 정보를 담고 있는 개인의료정보의 경우, 보안사고 발생 시 더 많은 경제사회적 문제를 가져올 수 있음에도 개인의료정보에 대한 자기결정권 행사는 충분히 이루어지지 못하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 기존 연구에서 보호와 관련된 개인의 의도 및 행동을 설명하기 위한 이론적 프레임워크로 활용되어 온 보호동기이론을 기반으로 개인의료정보의 자기결정권 행사 의도에 영향을 미치는 요인을 살펴보았다. 설문조사를 통해 수집된 200건의 데이터에 대한 실증분석 결과, 위협평가(위협에 대한 지각된 취약성, 지각된 심각성)와 대처평가(지각된 반응 효율성)가 개인의료정보의 자기결정권 행사 의도에 유의한 영향을 미치고 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 개인이 평소 갖고 있는 개인의료정보 제공에 대한 우려 역시 개인의료정보의 자기결정권 행사 의도에 유의한 영향을 주고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 도출된 결과와 관련된 이론적, 실무적 시사점과 본 연구의 한계점 및 향후 연구방향을 제시하였다.

클라우드 컴퓨팅 서비스의 도입특성이 기업의 인지된 기대성과에 미치는 영향: 기업의 혁신채택성향을 조절변수로 (The Effect of the Introduction Characteristics of Cloud Computing Services on the Performance Expectancy of Firms: Setting Up Innovativeness as the Moderator)

  • 임재수;오재인
    • 경영정보학연구
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    • 제19권1호
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    • pp.75-100
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    • 2017
  • 오늘날 기업은 급변하는 경영환경의 변화 속에 생존을 위해 끊임없는 변신과 혁신을 추구한다. 그 일환으로, 클라우드 컴퓨팅 서비스의 도입이 사회 전반에 걸쳐 활발하게 진행 중인데, 혁신의 주체로서 기업과 공공부문에 많은 변화와 발전을 유발할 것으로 기대된다. 이미 글로벌 선진국들은 공공 부문뿐만 아니라 많은 기업들이 클라우드 컴퓨팅 서비스를 접목하는 등 적극적으로 활용하고 있다. 이처럼, 클라우드 컴퓨팅 서비스의 중요함을 고려해 볼 때, 그 확산을 위한 연구는 매우 시급하고 중요하다. 로저스에 의하면, 확산이란 하나의 혁신이 시간을 두고 사회체계의 구성원 사이에서 특정 채널을 통해 커뮤니케이션이 되는 과정이다. 혁신을 수용하려는 성향이 혁신성향이고, 이러한 혁신성향은 혁신확산과 관련된 연구 및 새로운 기술이나 아이디어를 확산시키려는 기업에 있어 매우 중요한 가치를 가지게 된다. 본 연구의 목적은 혁신확산이론을 기반으로 클라우드 컴퓨팅 서비스의 특성이 혁신성향에 따라 인지된 기대성과에 미치는 영향요인을 실증 분석하는 것이다. 본 연구 결과는 향후 빅데이타, 디지털 융합, 사물인터넷 등과 같은 신기술의 확산을 위한 모형개발에 크게 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

모바일 배달 애플리케이션 사용성 평가 연구: 한국(배달의민족)과 중국(어러머)을 중심으로 (Research on Usability of Mobile Food Delivery Application: Focusing on Korean Application and Chinese Application)

  • 전양;권은경;채상미
    • 경영정보학연구
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    • 제20권1호
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    • pp.1-16
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    • 2018
  • 최근 인터넷의 발전과 스마트폰 보편화에 따라 배달 애플리케이션의 이용률이 높아지면서 O2O 기반의 외식 배달 시장이 급격하게 성장하고 있다. 본 연구는 한국(배달의민족)과 중국(어러머) 배달애플리케이션의 사용성을 비교 분석하고, 국내 배달 애플리케이션의 개선 방향을 제시하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 연구 방법으로는 1차로 국내외 배달 애플리케이션의 현황을 파악하고, 2차로 피터모빌의 허니콤 모델을 재구성하여, 이를 기준으로 설문조사와 심층인터뷰 진행하였다. 사용성 평가결과를 분석하여 제안된 개선 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 배달의민족의 모든 가맹업체들은 애플리케이션으로 주문이 가능해야 한다. 둘째, 장바구니에 다른 업소의 음식을 동시에 담을 수 있어야 한다. 셋째, 화면 첫 페이지에서 장바구니와 구매내역을 바로 찾아볼 수 있고 첫 페이지에 오늘의 추천 메뉴를 보여주는 것은 사용자의 편의성을 높이는 것에 도움을 준다. 넷째, 검색창을 상단에 고정하면 검색성을 높일 수 있다. 다섯째, 배달 예상 시간과 배달원의 정확한 위치를 확인할 수 있어야 한다. 마지막으로 업소 주소가 명시되고 예상 배달 가능 시간에 대한 보장이 이루어진다면 신뢰성을 높일 수 있다. 본 연구 결과를 통해 국내 배달 애플리케이션 서비스 향상에 기여하기를 기대한다.

Enhancing Global Research Visibility of Faculty Staffs by the Academic libraries in Public Universities in South East, Nigeria

  • Francisca C. MBAGWU;Judith S. NSE;Jacintha EZE;Ijeoma Irene BERNARD
    • International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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    • 제14권2호
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    • pp.29-46
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    • 2024
  • Academic libraries are at the forefront of supporting their parent institutions in teaching and learning, research activities, and community services for the students and faculty members, but, the researchers observed that some of the research emanating from faculty members in academic institutions particularly universities remains largely unknown, unrecognized and invisible on the global scene. This present paper is therefore a modest attempt towards addressing the issue of enhancing the faculty research visibility in the institutions of higher learning by the academic libraries. It also examines the extent academic libraries in public universities in Nigeria use research visibility channels to increase the global visibility of their faculty members. Difficulties encountered by librarians and ways of tackling the visibility of the faculty were also examined. A descriptive survey research design was adopted and the population consisted of all the 162 librarians in public universities in South-East (S.E), Nigeria. Telephone calls and Online Questionnaire were used for data collection. The number of librarians was obtained through phone calls from the Heads of each of the Libraries. The Online Questionnaire was submitted to the WhatsApp platforms of librarians in Nigeria- Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) and Chartered Librarians in Nigeria Connect (CLN-Connect). The questionnaire was structured in such a way that only the Librarians in Public universities in the S.E. Nigeria will respond to it. At the end of the day only 120 librarians responded, at a response rate of 74%. The study was analysed using tables, percentages and charts. The study recommended that librarians who are unaware of RVCs and its utilization should go for training to acquire the knowledge that will enable them enhance the global visibility of faculty staff, Management of Public universities in S.E, Nigeria should in addition to addressing copyright issues by the use of disclaimer notices and creative common licensing and provision of infrastructural facilities e.g. steady power supply, High power brand Internet connectivity, establishment of an Institutional Repository, etc, also should mandate the faculty staff to release their productive work to the library for onward submission to the RVCs platforms for enhancement of their global visibility.

With 코로나 시대 비대면 고독사 예방정책 방안 모색 - 대구광역시 AI, IOT 고독사 예방 사례를 중심으로 (With Corona Era, exploring policy measures to prevent non-face-to-face lonely deaths - Focusing on Daegu Metropolitan City's AI and IOT cases of lonely death prevention)

  • 김하윤;하태현
    • 디지털융복합연구
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    • 제21권3호
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    • pp.49-62
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    • 2023
  • 사회문화적 변화와 고령화에 따른 독거노인 등의 증가로 고독사는 꾸준히 증가하고 있으며 각 지자체마다 사회적 문제로 정의하기 시작하였으며, 정부에서도 고독사 문제에 대응하기 위해 제도적 기반을 마련하는 등 고독사 예방을 위한 법적근거를 제정하기 시작하였다. 본 연구는 고독사 예방을 위한 정책방안 모색을 위하여 고독사 예방을 위한 비대면 정책 추진을 위해 대구광역시에서 추진하고 있는 스마트 디지털 정보기술(AI, IOT)을 활용한 고독사 예방정책 사례를 살펴보았다. 고독사 관련 정책은 고독사 예방사업과 발굴 후 지원사업의 두 가지 축으로 구분한다. 이들사업을 효율성 있게 운영하기 위해서는 인공지능, 사물인터넷을 통한 비대면 서비스의 제공 등이 새로운 서비스 전달체계 방식으로 인식되고 있으므로, 비대면 서비스의 중요성과 필요성이 더욱 증대되고 있다. 국가 차원의 비대면 산업 확대를 위한 시스템 구축 등 다각적인 변화와 준비가 필요한 시점이라고 할 수 있으며 향후 또 다른 국가 재난 상황에서 대응할 수 있도록 고독사 예방 등 다양한 복지정책에서 비대면 스마트돌봄체계가 확대되고 활성화되어야 할 것이다.

소셜 미디어에서 정보공유를 위한 애착의 매개역할: 사회적 자본이론 관점 (Mediating Roles of Attachment for Information Sharing in Social Media: Social Capital Theory Perspective)

  • 정남호;한희정;구철모
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • 제22권4호
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    • pp.101-123
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    • 2012
  • Currently, Social Media, it has widely a renown keyword and its related social trends and businesses have been fastly applied into various contexts. Social media has become an important research area for scholars interested in online technologies and cyber space and their social impacts. Social media is not only including web-based services but also mobile-based application services that allow people to share various style information and knowledge through online connection. Social media users have tendency to common identity- and bond-attachment through interactions such as 'thumbs up', 'reply note', 'forwarding', which may have driven from various factors and may result in delivering information, sharing knowledge, and specific experiences et al. Even further, almost of all social media sites provide and connect unknown strangers depending on shared interests, political views, or enjoyable activities, and other stuffs incorporating the creation of contents, which provides benefits to users. As fast developing digital devices including smartphone, tablet PC, internet based blogging, and photo and video clips, scholars desperately have began to study regarding diverse issues connecting human beings' motivations and the behavioral results which may be articulated by the format of antecedents as well as consequences related to contents that people create via social media. Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, or Cyworld users are more and more getting close each other and build up their relationships by a different style. In this sense, people use social media as tools for maintain pre-existing network, creating new people socially, and at the same time, explicitly find some business opportunities using personal and unlimited public networks. In terms of theory in explaining this phenomenon, social capital is a concept that describes the benefits one receives from one's relationship with others. Thereby, social media use is closely related to the form and connected of people, which is a bridge that can be able to achieve informational benefits of a heterogeneous network of people and common identity- and bonding-attachment which emphasizes emotional benefits from community members or friend group. Social capital would be resources accumulated through the relationships among people, which can be considered as an investment in social relations with expected returns and may achieve benefits from the greater access to and use of resources embedded in social networks. Social media using for their social capital has vastly been adopted in a cyber world, however, there has been little explaining the phenomenon theoretically how people may take advantages or opportunities through interaction among people, why people may interactively give willingness to help or their answers. The individual consciously express themselves in an online space, so called, common identity- or bonding-attachments. Common-identity attachment is the focus of the weak ties, which are loose connections between individuals who may provide useful information or new perspectives for one another but typically not emotional support, whereas common-bonding attachment is explained that between individuals in tightly-knit, emotionally close relationship such as family and close friends. The common identify- and bonding-attachment are mainly studying on-offline setting, which individual convey an impression to others that are expressed to own interest to others. Thus, individuals expect to meet other people and are trying to behave self-presentation engaging in opposite partners accordingly. As developing social media, individuals are motivated to disclose self-disclosures of open and honest using diverse cues such as verbal and nonverbal and pictorial and video files to their friends as well as passing strangers. Social media context, common identity- and bond-attachment for self-presentation seems different compared with face-to-face context. In the realm of social media, social users look for self-impression by posting text messages, pictures, video files. Under the digital environments, people interact to work, shop, learn, entertain, and be played. Social media provides increasingly the kinds of intention and behavior in online. Typically, identity and bond social capital through self-presentation is the intentional and tangible component of identity. At social media, people try to engage in others via a desired impression, which can maintain through performing coherent and complementary communications including displaying signs, symbols, brands made of digital stuffs(information, interest, pictures, etc,). In marketing area, consumers traditionally show common-identity as they select clothes, hairstyles, automobiles, logos, and so on, to impress others in any given context in a shopping mall or opera. To examine these social capital and attachment, we combined a social capital theory with an attachment theory into our research model. Our research model focuses on the common identity- and bond-attachment how they are formulated through social capitals: cognitive capital, structural capital, relational capital, and individual characteristics. Thus, we examined that individual online kindness, self-rated expertise, and social relation influence to build common identity- and bond-attachment, and the attachment effects make an impact on both the willingness to help, however, common bond seems not to show directly impact on information sharing. As a result, we discover that the social capital and attachment theories are mainly applicable to the context of social media and usage in the individual networks. We collected sample data of 256 who are using social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Cyworld and analyzed the suggested hypotheses through the Structural Equation Model by AMOS. This study analyzes the direct and indirect relationship between the social network service usage and outcomes. Antecedents of kindness, confidence of knowledge, social relations are significantly affected to the mediators common identity-and bond attachments, however, interestingly, network externality does not impact, which we assumed that a size of network was a negative because group members would not significantly contribute if the members do not intend to actively interact with each other. The mediating variables had a positive effect on toward willingness to help. Further, common identity attachment has stronger significant on shared information.

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조직구성원의 정보기술 인적역량과 개인 업무만족 및 업무성과 간의 관계: 목표지향성 관점 (Relationships Among Employees' IT Personnel Competency, Personal Work Satisfaction, and Personal Work Performance: A Goal Orientation Perspective)

  • 허명숙;천면중
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • 제21권4호
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    • pp.63-104
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    • 2011
  • The study examines the relationships among employee's goal orientation, IT personnel competency, personal effectiveness. The goal orientation includes learning goal orientation, performance approach goal orientation, and performance avoid goal orientation. Personal effectiveness consists of personal work satisfaction and personal work performance. In general, IT personnel competency refers to IT expert's skills, expertise, and knowledge required to perform IT activities in organizations. However, due to the advent of the internet and the generalization of IT, IT personnel competency turns out to be an important competency of technological experts as well as employees in organizations. While the competency of IT itself is important, the appropriate harmony between IT personnel's business capability and technological capability enhances the value of human resources and thus provides organizations with sustainable competitive advantages. The rapid pace of organization change places increased pressure on employees to continually update their skills and adapt their behavior to new organizational realities. This challenge raises a number of important questions concerning organizational behavior? Why do some employees display remarkable flexibility in their behavioral responses to changes in the organization, whereas others firmly resist change or experience great stress when faced with the need to alter behavior? Why do some employees continually strive to improve themselves over their life span, whereas others are content to forge through life using the same basic knowledge and skills? Why do some employees throw themselves enthusiastically into challenging tasks, whereas others avoid challenging tasks? The goal orientation proposed by organizational psychology provides at least a partial answer to these questions. Goal orientations refer to stable personally characteristics fostered by "self-theories" about the nature and development of attributes (such as intelligence, personality, abilities, and skills) people have. Self-theories are one's beliefs and goal orientations are achievement motivation revealed in seeking goals in accordance with one's beliefs. The goal orientations include learning goal orientation, performance approach goal orientation, and performance avoid goal orientation. Specifically, a learning goal orientation refers to a preference to develop the self by acquiring new skills, mastering new situations, and improving one's competence. A performance approach goal orientation refers to a preference to demonstrate and validate the adequacy of one's competence by seeking favorable judgments and avoiding negative judgments. A performance avoid goal orientation refers to a preference to avoid the disproving of one's competence and to avoid negative judgements about it, while focusing on performance. And the study also examines the moderating role of work career of employees to investigate the difference in the relationship between IT personnel competency and personal effectiveness. The study analyzes the collected data using PASW 18.0 and and PLS(Partial Least Square). The study also uses PLS bootstrapping algorithm (sample size: 500) to test research hypotheses. The result shows that the influences of both a learning goal orientation (${\beta}$ = 0.301, t = 3.822, P < 0.000) and a performance approach goal orientation (${\beta}$ = 0.224, t = 2.710, P < 0.01) on IT personnel competency are positively significant, while the influence of a performance avoid goal orientation(${\beta}$ = -0.142, t = 2.398, p < 0.05) on IT personnel competency is negatively significant. The result indicates that employees differ in their psychological and behavioral responses according to the goal orientation of employees. The result also shows that the impact of a IT personnel competency on both personal work satisfaction(${\beta}$ = 0.395, t = 4.897, P < 0.000) and personal work performance(${\beta}$ = 0.575, t = 12.800, P < 0.000) is positively significant. And the impact of personal work satisfaction(${\beta}$ = 0.148, t = 2.432, p < 0.05) on personal work performance is positively significant. Finally, the impacts of control variables (gender, age, type of industry, position, work career) on the relationships between IT personnel competency and personal effectiveness(personal work satisfaction work performance) are partly significant. In addition, the study uses PLS algorithm to find out a GoF(global criterion of goodness of fit) of the exploratory research model which includes a mediating variable, IT personnel competency. The result of analysis shows that the value of GoF is 0.45 above GoFlarge(0.36). Therefore, the research model turns out be good. In addition, the study performs a Sobel Test to find out the statistical significance of the mediating variable, IT personnel competency, which is already turned out to have the mediating effect in the research model using PLS. The result of a Sobel Test shows that the values of Z are all significant statistically (above 1.96 and below -1.96) and indicates that IT personnel competency plays a mediating role in the research model. At the present day, most employees are universally afraid of organizational changes and resistant to them in organizations in which the acceptance and learning of a new information technology or information system is particularly required. The problem is due' to increasing a feeling of uneasiness and uncertainty in improving past practices in accordance with new organizational changes. It is not always possible for employees with positive attitudes to perform their works suitable to organizational goals. Therefore, organizations need to identify what kinds of goal-oriented minds employees have, motivate them to do self-directed learning, and provide them with organizational environment to enhance positive aspects in their works. Thus, the study provides researchers and practitioners with a matter of primary interest in goal orientation and IT personnel competency, of which they have been unaware until very recently. Some academic and practical implications and limitations arisen in the course of the research, and suggestions for future research directions are also discussed.

가정 호스피스케어환자 방문간호 조사분석 (A Study on Home Visiting Hospice Care of the Terminally Ill Patients)

  • 이소우;이은옥;박현애;오효숙;안효섭;허대석;윤영호;김달숙;노유자
    • Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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    • 제1권1호
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    • pp.39-46
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    • 1998
  • 목적 : 오늘날 호스피스 운동은 만성질환자가 급격히 증가함에 따라 인간의 삶을 추구하여 이루어낸 가장 완벽한 대답의 하나가 되고 있다. 우리의 1996년, 1997년의 연구에서 말기환자와 그 가족들에 대한 조사를 통해 한국 호스피스의 현재 상황을 파악하였다. 또한 호스피스케어 팀과 자원봉사자와 호스피스환자 관리를 위한 정보서비스 시스템을 개발하였다. 본 연구는 호스피스 정보서비스 시스템를 통한 간호사의 가정방문 호스피스케어와 그 문제점을 분석하였다. 방법 : 1997년 10월 1일부터 1998년 3월 31일까지 서울대학교병원 등에서 의뢰받은 26명의 말기암환자를 대상으로 하였다. 데이터 베이스와 홈페이지를 통해 호스피스케어에 필요한 정보를 갖춘 호스피스 정보서비스 시스템을 인터넷을 통해 방문간호사에게 제공하였고 방문간호사들은 이 시스템을 교육받고 환자 방문시 노트북 컴퓨터를 소지하여 호스피스 정보서비스 시스템을 통해 호스피스케어를 제공하였으며 첫 방문시와 호스피스케어동안에 환자들의 신체적 심리적 사회적 자료를 수집하였다. 결과 : 연구기간동안 26명중 16명이 사망하였으며 사망자의 평균 생존기간은 20.7일이었다. 첫 방문시 식욕부진(96.2%), 거동장애(88.5%), 통증(84.6%)이 주요한 증상이었으며 226개의 간호진단 중 영양부족과 통증이 가장 흔한 진단이었다. 가족은 환자보다 호스피스케어를 더 잘 이해하고 더 요구하였다. 대부분의 환자와 가족들은 간호사에게 영적 사회적 간호를 요구하지 않았다. 결론 : 시범사업을 통해 환자와 방문 호스피스 간호사에게 통증과 영양 관리에 대한 보다 많은 정보를 제공하여야 하여야 함을 알 수 있었다. 호스피스 정보서비스 시스템은 영적 사회적 케어에 대한 정보와 인력을 보안되어질 필요가 있다.

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DEA를 이용한 호텔 관광 서비스 업계의 CRM 도입 효율성 분석 (The Efficiency Analysis of CRM System in the Hotel Industry Using DEA)

  • 김태영;설경진;곽영대
    • 지능정보연구
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    • 제17권1호
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    • pp.91-110
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    • 2011
  • 본 논문은 호텔 관광 서비스 업계에서 급변하는 전산화와 글로벌화에 대응하기 위하여 IT 솔루션 도입을 통하여 기업의 업무 처리를 고도화하고 고객 서비스 대응력을 높인 사례를 연구하였다. 이를 통하여 국내 유수의 호텔 관광기업이 효과적으로 고객 요구에 대응하기 위하여 CRM 솔루션을 자체적으로 개발하여 실무에 활용하도록 함으로써, 고객에 대한 분석력을 높이고 고객별 마케팅 전략 수립과 고객에 특화 한 영업을 전개하는 활용 사례를 연구하였다. 특히 본 연구는 호텔 관광 업계의 CRM 솔루션 도입 과정과 CRM을 이용한 영업 업무 및 마케팅 업무에 활용해 나가는 과정에 대하여 논하였고, CRM 도입에 의한 효과를 DEA(Data Envelopment Analysis) 를 통하여 분석하였다. 우선 CRM을 도입한 L사의 각 사이트별 상대적 효율성을 CCR 모형으로 비교 분석하였으며, 그 다음 L사의 대표 사이트에 소속된 각 영업장들의 상대적 효율성을 BCC 모형으로 비교 분석하였다.

온라인 네트워킹 활동이 가상협업 역량 및 업무성과에 미치는 영향 (The Influence of Online Social Networking on Individual Virtual Competence and Task Performance in Organizations)

  • 서아영;신경식
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • 제22권2호
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    • pp.39-69
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    • 2012
  • With the advent of communication technologies including electronic collaborative tools and conferencing systems provided over the Internet, virtual collaboration is becoming increasingly common in organizations. Virtual collaboration refers to an environment in which the people working together are interdependent in their tasks, share responsibility for outcomes, are geographically dispersed, and rely on mediated rather than face-to face, communication to produce an outcome. Research suggests that new sets of individual skill, knowledge, and ability (SKAs) are required to perform effectively in today's virtualized workplace, which is labeled as individual virtual competence. It is also argued that use of online social networking sites may influence not only individuals' daily lives but also their capability to manage their work-related relationships in organizations, which in turn leads to better performance. The existing research regarding (1) the relationship between virtual competence and task performance and (2) the relationship between online networking and task performance has been conducted based on different theoretical perspectives so that little is known about how online social networking and virtual competence interplay to predict individuals' task performance. To fill this gap, this study raises the following research questions: (1) What is the individual virtual competence required for better adjustment to the virtual collaboration environment? (2) How does online networking via diverse social network service sites influence individuals' task performance in organizations? (3) How do the joint effects of individual virtual competence and online networking influence task performance? To address these research questions, we first draw on the prior literature and derive four dimensions of individual virtual competence that are related with an individual's self-concept, knowledge and ability. Computer self-efficacy is defined as the extent to which an individual beliefs in his or her ability to use computer technology broadly. Remotework self-efficacy is defined as the extent to which an individual beliefs in his or her ability to work and perform joint tasks with others in virtual settings. Virtual media skill is defined as the degree of confidence of individuals to function in their work role without face-to-face interactions. Virtual social skill is an individual's skill level in using technologies to communicate in virtual settings to their full potential. It should be noted that the concept of virtual social skill is different from the self-efficacy and captures an individual's cognition-based ability to build social relationships with others in virtual settings. Next, we discuss how online networking influences both individual virtual competence and task performance based on the social network theory and the social learning theory. We argue that online networking may enhance individuals' capability in expanding their social networks with low costs. We also argue that online networking may enable individuals to learn the necessary skills regarding how they use technological functions, communicate with others, and share information and make social relations using the technical functions provided by electronic media, consequently increasing individual virtual competence. To examine the relationships among online networking, virtual competence, and task performance, we developed research models (the mediation, interaction, and additive models, respectively) by integrating the social network theory and the social learning theory. Using data from 112 employees of a virtualized company, we tested the proposed research models. The results of analysis partly support the mediation model in that online social networking positively influences individuals' computer self-efficacy, virtual social skill, and virtual media skill, which are key predictors of individuals' task performance. Furthermore, the results of the analysis partly support the interaction model in that the level of remotework self-efficacy moderates the relationship between online social networking and task performance. The results paint a picture of people adjusting to virtual collaboration that constrains and enables their task performance. This study contributes to research and practice. First, we suggest a shift of research focus to the individual level when examining virtual phenomena and theorize that online social networking can enhance individual virtual competence in some aspects. Second, we replicate and advance the prior competence literature by linking each component of virtual competence and objective task performance. The results of this study provide useful insights into how human resource responsibilities assess employees' weakness and strength when they organize virtualized groups or projects. Furthermore, it provides managers with insights into the kinds of development or training programs that they can engage in with their employees to advance their ability to undertake virtual work.

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