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This paper presents industry best practices to optimize lifecycle cost of electric transmission and distribution (T&D) assets whilst maintaining asset integrity, functionality and operability. This qualitative study encompasses high voltage plant and equipment in the electric power transmission and distribution sector, and focusses on asset strategy, equipment evaluation and specification. Asset...
Taking the group of IT R&D personnel as the research subject, we investigated 267 employees through the questionnaire of work-family conflict, work-family promotion, psychological contract and turnover intention. The results showed: 1) Work-family conflict negatively affects psychological contract, and positively affects turnover intention; 2) Work-family promotion positively affects psychological...
With the shift in economy from products to services, there emerged an identical need for shift in focus in the literature from product quality to service quality. Unlike products, there are challenges associated with service quality as services are not easily identifiable and measurable. There are quite a few service quality models available in the current literature and subsequently there have been...
This study aimed to explore the interaction effect of psychological capital and job satisfaction on performance. Then the concept psychological capital of positive psychology and job satisfaction was used in conceiving a model which was about the moderate effect of psychological capital on performance. An experimental design between subjects was conducted with 321 IT employees. The indications of...
This paper examines the impact of job involvement, job satisfaction and organizational commitment on propensity to leave a job. Using a stratified random sampling procedure, survey questionnaires are administered to 116 Information Systems (IS) personnel working in multinational companies in Malaysia. Results show that IS personnel's job involvement is positively associated with organizational commitment...
Based on relationship marketing paradigm the trust mechanism of the impact of customer retention, trust are creatively divided into two dimensions of personal and enterprises, moreover it adds commercial friendship variable, then develops a structural equation model involving commercial friendship, trust of personal and enterprises and customer retention. The relationship among trust, commercial friendship...
Many problems have existed in synthesis design of reliability, maintainability, supportability (RMS) and performance, such as RMS design activities are numerous and optional, variable feedback branches can satisfy same RMS requirement, some iteration among RMS and Performance activities is necessary, and many uncertainty exist in the design process. A process reengineering method for synthesis design...
This paper attempts to classify the management control systems (MCS) model. By using a native instrument whose reliability and validity are tested empirically, the findings indicate that MCS include objective controls, action controls, outcome controls and cultural controls. This study provides a new theoretical basis for MCS to make adjustment to the new environment.
Construct Transportability is the conveyance of a latent construct from prior research for reuse in new theoretical models without the loss of meaning or reliance on the nomological network. The basis of construct transportability is fundamental to building upon existing literature. Recent reviews of the IS literature suggest inconsistencies in measurement models of similarly defined latent constructs...
With the coming of knowledge-based economy, the work-family relationship of knowledge workers has received increasing concerns. This paper studies knowledge workers in Changzhou and proposes hypotheses on knowledge workers' work-family enrichment, job burnout, and mental health. Based on questionnaire and data analysis, our models are empirically supported. Our conclusions are work-family enrichment...
Today, Firm networks are receiving an increasing attention in China. However, little research examined the relationship of job satisfaction, organizational commitment and efficiency of firm networks, although some previous researches examined them in hierarchy firms, especially lack of empirical investigation. In this paper, 3 latent variables and 21 observed variables are conducted in structural...
The concepts of organizational support (OS), organizational commitment (OC) and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) have aroused great interests among scholars since they were introduced. However, most of the research on them is either based on western culture or taking company employees as the research object. There have been insufficient studies on university faculty members. Study on organizational...
The survey from local enterprises shows that relationship conflict within organization has negative impact on organizational performance, but the effect from task conflict is not significant. The variables of psychological conditions such as psychological meaningfulness, psychological safety and psychological availability not only can directly affect individual's job involvement and organizational...
The study develops and tests a theoretical model in which employee innovation is influenced by individual perception of organizational politics and charismatic leadership. Two types of charismatic leadership, socialized versus personalized leadership, are examined. We propose that socialized leadership negatively influence individual perception of organizational politics, which in turn negatively...
As a result of the changing medical environment in Taiwan, hospitals encounter increasing competitive pressure. In response to an increasingly competitive environment, hospitals are devoted to improving the quality of service received by the patients. This study explored how learning organisation influences staff members' service quality. A cross-sectional study was performed. The survey sample included...
Based on a job satisfaction survey to nearly 400 in-service hotel staff in Shanghai, this research uses factor analysis to explore the latent factors that might affect the job satisfaction of Shanghai hotel staff and uses one-way ANOVA to examine the significance of each factor to Shanghai hotel staff job satisfaction. This research will be helpful to discover the various demands of Shanghai hotel...
In this paper we describe the information, communication, and acceptance issues in a tele-medical workflow, taking a pre-hospital emergency medical service (EMS) as an example. EMS workflows are extremely time-critical, impose a high responsibility, and crucially depend on a close, well-trained cooperation between EMS personnel. Though increasingly information and communication technologies (ICT)...
This paper proposes a conceptual model of social capital, external organizational integration and new product development (NPD) performance, and conducts empirical study based on the investigation of domestic manufacturing enterprises. The results show that social capital has positive impact on external organizational integration, external organizational integration has positive impact on NPD performance,...
Based on employee retention research and social resources theory, this paper proposes a construct of motivation to protect existing resources, the purpose of which is to develop and validate an instrument measuring the construct, in order to indicate the motivation mechanism behind the predictors in employee retention research. The paper develops a three-factor structure scale to measure the motivation...
Empowerment is an effective management tool and has made tremendous benefits for employees and organizations, which has been approved by many studies and practices. However in China, it is so common that managers don't want to empower. So the main aim of this research is to analyze that phenomenon from the perspective of empowerment risk perception. From the data of 209 managers and 618 subordinates...
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