• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.115-136
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• 2014

The game industry has grown steadily and the online game has become one of the most attractive game segments for its remarkable growth. Customer management in the online game industry, however, has received little attention from the academic field. The purpose of this study is to analyze the drivers of customer defection in the online game setting and suggest not only theoretical but also managerial insights into increasing customer retention rates. Prior to empirical analysis, the authors hypothesized that 3 variables of interests (Learning, Playing, Achievement) would explain the customer defection according to preceeding researches. To demonstrate these hypotheses, the authors obtained data from one of the biggest game publishers in Korea, and the empirical analysis model was developed considering context of research settings. The results of analyses provide the following insights. First, the key behavioral variables of Learning, Playing, and Achievement play substantial roles in explaining the customer defection. Next, the effects of these variables vary between customer types: novice and experienced customers. The defection decisions by novice customers are predicted by all key behavioral variables and Playing serves as the most influential indicator of the defection decisions. However, experienced customers are influenced by Playing and Achievement, while Learning has no impact on the defection decisions. Finally, the authors investigated hypothetical customer retention strategies, using the empirical results. The market outcomes indicate that the customer retention strategies work well with novice customers and it is hard-to-impossible to prevent experienced customers from defection using their behavioral data. These findings together deliver several meaningful insights to management as follow. First, the management should support customers to get involved in Learning activities at the very first stage. Second, customer's Achievement and appropriate compensation for it would work as defection barriers. Last, to optimize the outcomes of firm's marketing investments, it is better to focus on retention of novice users not experienced ones.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.115-121
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• 2017

Purpose - Although ensuring that all the organizational members know their roles exactly is an important part of managerial work, few studies address the role clarity in food manufacturing and distribution firms. Role clarity refers to the extent to which individuals clearly understand the tasks, duties, responsibilities, and expectations of their work roles (Hinkin & Schriesheim, 2008). The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of the role clarity on organizational commitment and the mediating role of creativity in the role clarity-organizational commitment relationship. Research design, data, and methodology - Data were collected from 297 employees in food manufacturing and distribution firms of Korea by self-evaluations questionnaires. The unit of the analysis for testing is an individual. We proposed four hypotheses: (1) is about the relationship between role clarity and organizational commitment, (2) is about the relationship between role clarity and creativity, (3) is about the relationship between creativity and organizational commitment, and (4) is about the mediating role of creativity. We conducted the hierarchical regression analysis for testing the main and mediating effects. Results - The results of the study indicated that the role clarity was positively associated with organizational commitment and creativity. Results also indicated that the creativity was positively associated with organizational commitment. Especially, the impact of the role clarity on organizational commitment was mediated by creativity. Conclusions - An important contribution of this study is extending prior theory on the relationship between role clarity and organizational commitment by shedding new light on assumptions regarding the mediating effect of creativity. The results demonstrate that the role clarity has an indirect effect as well as a direct effects on organizational commitment. Our research suggests important implications for organizations that pursue to stimulate their employees' creativity, emphasizing the importance of the role clarity. This study has several potential limitations. Maybe the most serious limitation is its cross-sectional study design. Another limitation is the use of employees' self-reports to measure the variables. In the future, researchers should employ a longitudinal study design and use diverse sources of data.

• 대한지역사회영양학회지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.502-511
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• 2006

The purposes of this study were to measure job satisfaction levels of dietitians engaged a in contract food service management company, and to examine the impacts of personal characteristics and organizational characteristics on the job satisfaction of dietitians. The questionnaires developed for this study were distributed to 230 dietitians of contract food service management companies in the Seoul and Gyeonggi areas, and a total of 187 (81.3%) questionnaires were used for analysis. Statistical analyses were completed using SPSS (Win 11.5) for descriptive analysis, correlation analysis, t-test and ANOVA. The average job satisfaction score of the dietitians was 2.83, which is lower than "not satisfied" and "not dissatisfied" (3), "Marital status" (p < 0.001), "payroll per year" (p < 0.001), "age" (p < 0.05) and "work experience as a dietitians" (p < 0.05) had significant effects on job satisfaction of work and environmental factors. "Operating group" (p < 0.05), "type of menu" and "type of service" also affected the job satisfaction. Overall, it is important that managers of contract food service management companies establish specified human resource management strategies with understandings of the characteristics of their dietitians and companies to enhance the job satisfaction of dietitians, and to achieve their managerial goals.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.55-85
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• 2013

The present study examines the effects of transformational leadership exercised by team leader and transformational leadership shared by team members on team creativity and team performance at the team level. A growing body on leadership research highlights the role of team leadership in work organizations. In team settings, studies have focused exclusively on individual leaders who occupy formal leadership positions and exercise vertical influence over team members. In contrast to this traditional approach, shared leadership highlights a horizontal influence process where leadership is collectively carried out by team members. In this shared form of leadership, members actively participate in the leadership process and horizontally influence other team members. This mutual influence among team members constitutes a critical condition for the success of team-based organizations. The ability of team members to work together as a team is the key to the overall functioning of the team organization. To verify the effect of two leadership styles, we analyze the effect of a leader's transformational leadership and members' shared transformational leadership on team creativity and team performance for the same team. This study also predicts that the transformational leadership shared by members will moderate the effects of leader transformational leadership on team performance and creativity. Our findings show that both leaderships have a positive effect on team performance. However, the main effect of a leader's transformational leadership on team creativity is not significant when members' transformational leadership is employed into the model. With the effect of leader transformational leadership controlled for, the main effects of the transformational leadership shared by members on team creativity and performance are significant. In addition, we also found the significant moderation effects of member transformational leadership by leader transformational leadership on team creativity. Based on these findings, we strongly recommend that team based organizations shift the leadership focus from the leader focused leadership model to the shared leadership model. We also discuss managerial implications of our findings in details.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.265-276
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• 2018

Background: Resilience engineering is a paradigm for safety management that focuses on coping with complexity to achieve success, even considering several conflicting goals. Modern sociotechnical systems have to be resilient to comply with the variability of everyday activities, the tight-coupled and under-specified nature of work, and the nonlinear interactions among agents. At organizational level, resilience can be described as a combination of four cornerstones: monitoring, responding, learning, and anticipating. Methods: Starting from these four categories, this article aims at defining a semiquantitative analytic framework to measure organizational resilience in complex sociotechnical systems, combining the resilience analysis grid and the analytic hierarchy process. Results: This article presents an approach for defining resilience abilities of an organization, creating a structured domain-dependent framework to define a resilience profile at different levels of abstraction, and identifying weaknesses and strengths of the system and potential actions to increase system's adaptive capacity. An illustrative example in an anesthesia department clarifies the outcomes of the approach. Conclusion: The outcome of the resilience analysis grid, i.e., a weighed set of probing questions, can be used in different domains, as a support tool in a wider Safety-II oriented managerial action to bring safety management into the core business of the organization.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 2th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.289-298
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• 2007

The development of construction industry has led to the increase in the number of criteria imposed by project clients for selecting contractors. For example, clients often request tenderers to satisfy various conditions such as tight programme, financial strength, managerial ability, relevant work experiences, technical strength, high workmanship standard, safety requirement, quality specification, and yet others. This trend has attracted research interests of devising various methods for helping project clients to assess contractors' bids. For example, in recent development, the Works Bureau of the Hong Kong Government has introduced two mechanisms in tender evaluation for various public work contracts, namely, the Marking Scheme effective from June 2002 and the Formula Approach effective from November 2002 [1], [2]. These approaches evaluate a contractor's tender by considering collectively its tender price and performance attributes, the latter including contractor experience, past performance, technical resources and technical content of his proposal. The tender with the highest combined price and performance score (CPPS) will be normally recommended for acceptance. It appears, however, that there is little existing research in helping contractors to identify a competition strategy that enables the contractor to offer his most competitive bid collectively taking into account his resource capacities and project client's multiple performance criteria. This paper examines the factors affecting contractor's competition strategy to compete for works in Hong Kong. The understanding about the factors will contribute to identifying effective competition strategy. The data used for the analysis were collected from Hong Kong construction industry. The research findings may provide valuable references for investigating effective competition strategies in other construction industries outside the region.

• 한일민족문제연구
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• 제33호
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• pp.67-111
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• 2017

This article aims to shed light on the wartime labor mobilization of prisoners on a large scale in/across colonial Korea and beyond during the late wartime period. More specifically, this article reveals the logic and mode of mobilization, and sorts out nationwide mobilization cases in colonial Korea. To this end, this article draws on documents and magazines published by the criminal administration of the Japanese Government-General of Korea, as well as the memoirs of prisoners and prison staff including prison administrators and prison chaplains. With the onset of the wartime system, the labor work in prisons centered on the production of military supplies. In 1943, the labor mobilization began to organize the National Protection Corps and dispatch them to remote workplaces. For example, at the requests of the military, prisoners were selected and sent to Hainan Island, while others were sent to military factories and mining fields in the northern part of the country. The authorities specified and adjusted the criteria for imprisonment based on education, physical strength, and other physical and mental conditions. Unconverted ideological offenders were excluded from the mobilization, and instead put under separate control. In preparation for mobilization, the prisoners trained in military drills, received Japanese language education, and underwent assimilation as imperial subjects through the preaching in prison. In order to induce prisoners to volunteer, a legislation system based on the shortening of the prison terms, including the parole system, was also promoted under the wartime system. As a result, prisoners were forced to work harder and faster even under the lowest of wages, poor food and poor housing conditions, and they also filled vacancies in managerial positions by serving as supervisory assistants. The reward system for them, however, did not function properly towards the end of the war, and the number of escapes and infectious outbreaks, as well as mortality rates rapidly increased under the harsh conditions.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.17-30
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• 2023

The human reproductive system can be affected by occupational exposure to many physical and chemical risk factors. This study was carried out to review the studies conducted on the issue of the pathophysiological effects of occupational physical and chemical risk factors on the reproductive system of females and males. In this systematic review, the databases such as "Google Scholar," "Pub-Med," "Scopus," and "Web of Science" were used. Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA 2020), the studies included in our study were published between 2000 and 2021. In order to extract the required data, all sections of the articles were reviewed. Out of 57 articles we reviewed, 34 articles were related to field studies and 23 articles to clinical studies. Among them, 43 studies dealt with the pathophysiological effects of chemical agents, six studies dealt with the pathophysiological effects of physical factors, and 8 studies dealt with the pathophysiological effects of physicochemical factors on the human reproductive system. Physical (noise, heat, and radiofrequency radiation) and chemical (such as carbamate and organophosphate pesticides, benzene, toluene, xylene, formaldehyde, NO2, CS2, manganese, lead, nickel, and n-hexane) risk factors had pathophysiological effects on the human reproductive system. The presence of these risk factors in the workplace caused damage to the human reproductive system. The rate of these negative pathophysiological effects can be reduced by performing appropriate managerial, technical, and engineering measures in work environments.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.13-20
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• 2012

유동근무제는 고정된 시간대에만 근무하지 않고 조직과 종업원의 협의에 의하여 근무시간대를 유연하게 조절하는 제도를 의미한다. 대부분의 선행연구에서는 유동근무제가 성과나 생산성, 조직에 대한 태도, 결근율 및 이직률에 미치는 영향을 밝히는데 그 초점을 맞추었으나, 한국의 대부분 기업들이 아직 이 제도를 채택하지 않기 때문에 본 연구는 서울에 주소지를 둔 유통업체에 종사하는 노동자들을 대상으로 현장조사를 실시하여 노동자들의 개인적 특성이 유동근무제의 선호성향에 미치는 영향을 분석함으로써 제도도입을 위한 이론적 틀을 제공하는데 그 목적을 두고 있다. 본 연구의 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 노동자들의 연령은 유동근무제의 선호성향에 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 다만 통계적으로 유의하지는 않았지만 36세 이상의 노동자들은 35세 미만의 노동자들에 비해 선호성향이 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 남성의 선호성향이 여성보다 더 높게 나타났는데, 이것 역시 유동근무제는 자기개발과 직장생활을 공존하게 할 수 있어 아무래도 자기개발에 관심이 적은 여성보다는 남성들의 태도가 더 호의적인 것으로 분석되고 있다. 통제의 위치와 유동근무제에 대한 선호성향은 약한 상관관계가 존재하는 것으로 나타났는데 이것은 내적 통제를 지향하는 노동자일수록 유동근무제에 대해 호의적인 태도를 갖고 있음을 의미한다. 성취욕구가 높은 노동자일수록 유동근무제에 대해 호의적인 태도를 보여줬다. 성취욕구가 높은 사람들은 새로운 제도를 도입하는데 있어서 과감하게 도전을 하기 때문으로 보인다. 직무만족과 유동근무제의 선호성향과는 유의한 관련성을 나타내고 있지 않았다. 끝으로 본 연구의 한계를 제시하고 향후 연구의 방향을 제시한다.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.97-117
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 한국 중소기업 클라우드 컴퓨팅 사용자, 조직구성원들을 대상으로, 혁신확산이론을 토대로 하여 사용자의 개인적 특성을 추가한 확장된 모형으로, 클라우드 컴퓨팅 오피스환경의 확산요인을 마련한 후, 이에 대한 사용자의 지각이 업무성과에 미치는 영향을 파악하였다. 이를 위해, 중소기업 클라우드 컴퓨팅 오피스환경의 확산요인이 업무성과에 영향을 주는지 분석하고, 클라우드 컴퓨팅 오피스환경 사용자 교육과 지원 서비스에 따른 조절효과를 분석하였다. 본 연구의 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 클라우드 컴퓨팅 확산요인과 업무효용성의 관계를 검증한 결과, 클라우드 컴퓨팅 확산요인은 업무효용성에 정(+)의 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며, 업무효용성에 영향을 미치는 클라우드 컴퓨팅 확산요인으로는 시스템사용능력 > 시스템의질 > 정보의질 > 조직의인식 > 시스템사용태도의 순으로 나타났다. 둘째, 클라우드 컴퓨팅 확산요인과 업무능률성의 관계를 검증한 결과, 클라우드 컴퓨팅 확산요인은 업무능률성에 정(+)의 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며, 업무능률성에 영향을 미치는 클라우드 컴퓨팅 확산요인으로는 시스템사용능력 > 시스템의질 > 정보의질 > 시스템사용태도 > 조직의인식의 순으로 나타났다. 셋째, 클라우드 컴퓨팅 확산요인과 업무생산성의 관계를 검증한 결과, 클라우드 컴퓨팅 확산요인은 업무생산성에 정(+)의 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며, 업무생산성에 영향을 미치는 클라우드 컴퓨팅 확산요인으로는 정보의질 > 시스템사용태도 > 조직의인식 > 시스템의질 > 시스템사용능력의 순으로 나타났다. 넷째, 클라우드 컴퓨팅 확산요인이 업무성과에 미치는 영향에 있어서 사용자교육 제공여부 및 전산부서 지원서비스 유무의 조절효과를 검증한 결과, 클라우드 컴퓨팅 확산요인은 사용자교육 제공여부와의 상호작용을 통해 업무성과와 유의한 정(+)의 관계를, 전산부서 지원서비스 유무와의 상호작용을 통해 업무성과와 유의한 정(+)의 관계를 보였다.