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0000-0002-5654-0968
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University of South Australia
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Flexible Manufacturing Systems | Organisational Planning And Management | Manufacturing Engineering | Innovation And Technology Management
Technological and organisational innovation | Productivity |
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2020
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 2002
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 05-11-2015
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2007
DOI: 10.5840/POM20086235
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-03-2017
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 14-05-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2018
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 04-10-2014
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2010
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-05-2018
Publisher: Unpublished
Date: 2021
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 26-10-2016
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 2013
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2014
Publisher: Academy of Management
Date: 06-2013
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Date: 2013
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2014
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Date: 14-11-2012
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2017
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 16-05-2017
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 14-05-2018
Publisher: Philosophy Documentation Center
Date: 2001
DOI: 10.5840/BPEJ20012014
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 04-12-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-08-2008
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.1108/REIO
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 26-12-2017
DOI: 10.1017/JMO.2017.70
Abstract: With manufacturers seeking investment opportunities in Africa, it is timely to explore the interaction of advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) and human resource management approaches there. Because research elsewhere suggests that the effects of the interaction differ across national boundaries, we investigated empowerment approaches and AMT utilisation in Nigeria and New Zealand. Using operational-level survey data from 153 manufacturing managers/CEOs in both countries, we explored the role of national culture on managerial attitudes towards employee empowerment during AMT adoption. Drawing on Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, our results suggest that the observed differences in AMT–empowerment interface are attributable to different national values. The results specifically indicated that during AMT adoption, New Zealand’s liberal culture encourages managers to empower employees more than does Nigeria’s authoritarian one. The results would particularly assist practitioners to recognise the traditional/conservative nature of African values when practicing HR in a country like Nigeria.
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 17-09-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2001
Publisher: Philosophy Documentation Center
Date: 2002
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-12-2007
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-03-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S10551-023-05392-2
Abstract: The COVID-19 virus was unveiled to the world as a health crisis and later also as an economic crisis. For some organisations, it has become an ethical crisis. This is certainly the case for large organisations in Australia, where the way many enterprises handled a government wage subsidy called JobKeeper led to a public backlash, media pressure, and a variety of responses ranging from ‘We acted legally’ to the full return of the subsidy. Some organisations later reported profits, and the public response indicated concern about this behaviour, many considering it immoral despite it being legally compliant. It is, we contend, a question to which stakeholder theory can be applied, examining how organisations view and respond to the public. We use content analysis of mainstream media to provide information about public reactions and information from official sources to confirm corporate action. We show that there is a significant ethical component in the public response to the behaviour of organisations as they respond to the crisis. COVID has been an ethical, health, and financial crisis for these organisations. Public pressure, exerted in and through the media, made the general public a definite stakeholder.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 22-12-2022
DOI: 10.1093/CDJ/BSAC041
Abstract: In the complex practices of development, ethical decisions are continually demanded of practitioners. This paper addresses the process of teaching ethics, within a framework of applied ethics and with an emphasis on the development of an understanding of ethics-in-practice in current and future practitioners. Building on recent work in the area of ethics in development and humanitarian practice, it addresses approaches to teaching professional ethics in community development and other fields, and debates about the value of teaching ethics. In particular, this article discusses how students develop what we call ‘ethical capability’—the cognitive and emotional resources needed to negotiate the contradictions and dilemmas of everyday practice, and to apply ethical decision-making models. Analysing a current post-graduate applied development ethics course and experience of similar courses in undergraduate business, we investigate how these can prepare students for the messy reality of community development practice. With very few courses teaching ethics in development, we propose that it is important to enhance ethical capability in community development students and practitioners, and that doing so supports their work and wellbeing.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 21-06-2021
DOI: 10.1007/S13280-021-01574-2
Abstract: As largely documented in the literature, the stark restrictions enforced worldwide in 2020 to curb the COVID-19 pandemic also curtailed the production of air pollutants to some extent. This study investigates the perception of the air pollution as assessed by in iduals located in ten countries: Australia, Brazil, China, Ghana, India, Iran, Italy, Norway, South Africa and the USA. The perceptions towards air quality were evaluated by employing an online survey administered in May 2020. Participants ( N = 9394) in the ten countries expressed their opinions according to a Likert-scale response. A reduction in pollutant concentration was clearly perceived, albeit to a different extent, by all populations. The survey participants located in India and Italy perceived the largest drop in the air pollution concentration conversely, the smallest variation was perceived among Chinese and Norwegian respondents. Among all the demographic indicators considered, only gender proved to be statistically significant.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2011
DOI: 10.5840/POM20111023
Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
Date: 2007
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 04-09-2019
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 03-10-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2018
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 2012
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 26-10-2016
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 02-2021
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0245886
Abstract: The restrictive measures implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have triggered sudden massive changes to travel behaviors of people all around the world. This study examines the in idual mobility patterns for all transport modes (walk, bicycle, motorcycle, car driven alone, car driven in company, bus, subway, tram, train, airplane) before and during the restrictions adopted in ten countries on six continents: Australia, Brazil, China, Ghana, India, Iran, Italy, Norway, South Africa and the United States. This cross-country study also aims at understanding the predictors of protective behaviors related to the transport sector and COVID-19. Findings hinge upon an online survey conducted in May 2020 (N = 9,394). The empirical results quantify tremendous disruptions for both commuting and non-commuting travels, highlighting substantial reductions in the frequency of all types of trips and use of all modes. In terms of potential virus spread, airplanes and buses are perceived to be the riskiest transport modes, while avoidance of public transport is consistently found across the countries. According to the Protection Motivation Theory, the study sheds new light on the fact that two indicators, namely income inequality, expressed as Gini index, and the reported number of deaths due to COVID-19 per 100,000 inhabitants, aggravate respondents’ perceptions. This research indicates that socio-economic inequality and morbidity are not only related to actual health risks, as well documented in the relevant literature, but also to the perceived risks. These findings document the global impact of the COVID-19 crisis as well as provide guidance for transportation practitioners in developing future strategies.
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Date: 2013
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 03-10-2017
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 03-10-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2020
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 12-09-2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 28-08-2018
DOI: 10.1093/ACREFORE/9780190224851.013.148
Abstract: Organizational happiness is an intuitively attractive idea, notwithstanding the difficulty of defining happiness. A preference for unhappiness rather than happiness in an organization would be out of tune with community expectations in most societies, as would an organization that promoted unhappiness. Some argue that organizational happiness is a misconception, that happiness is a personality trait and organizations cannot have personality. Others suggest that organizational happiness is derived from, or at least dependent on, the happiness of the in iduals in the organization. A third approach involves virtue ethics, linking organizational happiness to virtuous organizations. Some discussion of the nature of happiness is needed before consideration of these three approaches to the concept of organizational happiness. If one leaves aside the notion of happiness as a psychological state, there remain three main views as to the nature of happiness: one based on a hedonistic view, which grounds happiness in pleasure, one based on the extent to which desire is satisfied, and one where happiness is linked to a life of virtuous activity and the fulfillment of human potential. Some would see no distinction between all three senses of happiness and what is called well-being. Whether or not organizations can experience happiness is to some extent determined by whether happiness is considered subjective well-being, fulfilled desire, or virtue and to some extent by one’s view of the moral nature of corporations. There are dangers in the unfettered pursuit of happiness. Empirical research is impacted by questions of definition, by changes over time for both in iduals and society, and by the difficulty that arises from reliance on self-reported data. Recent decades have seen the publication of quantitative assessments of organizational happiness, despite the difficulty of constructing scales and manipulating data, and the problems of effectively taking into account cultural, organizational, and in idual differences in concepts of happiness. Potential research questions fall into two groups, those that seek a better understanding of what happiness is and those that seek to collect data about happiness in pursuit of answers to questions about the benefits of happiness.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 31-07-2007
DOI: 10.1108/17410380710763877
Abstract: Social factors are an under‐researched but important aspect in the success of manufacturing cells. This paper sets out to investigate the impact and importance of various human factors within a socio‐technical system such as team‐based cellular manufacturing (TBCM). A questionnaire survey was designed to provide information about human factors in TBCM. The survey was conducted at four medium‐to‐large size organisations in Australia and Switzerland where participants were required to be working within a TBCM environment and included managers, team leaders, and operators. A set of research questions and hypotheses was developed and tested. It was found that human issues account for a significant proportion of problems within team‐based manufacturing cells. Of the eight human factors tested in this survey, communication, teamwork and training were ranked the most important, while reward/compensation was ranked the least important. Testing showed significant relationships between factors such as companies, positions, experience and team size therefore most hypotheses were supported. Traditionally, the research focus has been on the technical aspect of socio‐technical systems such as TBCM. This study offers practitioners and academics a better understanding of the human issues associated with this important form of manufacturing, therefore improving the likelihood of its success. This paper demonstrates the need for research into the social side of TBCM, while providing an understanding of the important human factors associated with this system.
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Date: 2018
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2003
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 14-11-2012
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2014
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 22-07-2013
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2007
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 03-10-2017
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 14-11-2012
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2001
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2013
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 2012
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Date: 2008
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-05-2017
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2016
Publisher: Philosophy Documentation Center
Date: 1999
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 12-09-2014
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 12-09-2014
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-08-2007
Publisher: Philosophy Documentation Center
Date: 2011
Start Date: 2003
End Date: 2006
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 06-2003
End Date: 06-2006
Amount: $69,099.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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