What happened to the work I was doing? Sociomateriality and cognitive tensions in technology work

In recent times, there is growing recognition that the implications of technology are not a given; they result from how the social and technical interact to redefine work-related expectations. The sociomateriality lens highlights the inseparable and relational aspects of the social and technological systems. We draw upon sociomateriality to highlight cognitive tensions that technology work generates through two case studies. Based on these insights, we provide suggestions to practitioners to mindfully examine their digital transformation efforts and identify plans to mitigate the tensions.     

镇江养生旅游产品设计与开发

养生旅游是一种以养生为主要目的的旅游活动。养生旅游的兴起迎合了人们回归自然、放松心情的需求,市场潜力巨大。文章分析了镇江养生旅游开发的可行性和开发原则,提出了以醋文化养生游、乡村体验养生游、园林保健养生游、中医药养生游和宗教文化养生游的产品开发策略。     

浅析机房环境对信息化系统安全稳定运行的重要性

信息化的建设,相关系统构建中的计算、交换、存储、控制等设备又成为它们的核心硬件。这些核心设备能否正常工作,将直接关系到信息化系统的安全稳定运行。那么,是否配置了高质量高性能的设备就高枕无忧了呢?安装这些设备的空间环境对它们的工作状态有什么影响?本文将就此问题就机房环境对信息化系统安全稳定运行的重要性进行浅析。     

三防设计及其在数字对讲机结构设计中的应用

通过对数字对讲机在严酷环境条件下产生故障模式的原因分析,得出结论:三防设计的缺失是导致对讲机失效最主要因素之一。本文以手持式数字对讲机的结构设计为研究对象,运用三防设计的设计原则和方法,优选材料,减小结构设计对产品性能的影响。从而,大大提高数字对讲机在恶劣环境中的适应性,降低产品故障率。     

Caring human resources management and employee engagement

Research on employee engagement has demonstrated that human resource management (HRM) practices and systems are positively related to employee engagement. However, it is not clear what HRM practices or system of practices is most important for employee engagement or the theoretical mechanisms that intervene and explain the link between HRM and employee engagement. In this paper, I provide answers to these two important questions by developing a model of caring HRM and employee engagement based on the engagement, organizational climate, and strategic HRM literatures. The model indicates that a system of caring HRM practices (job design, training and development, flexible work arrangements, work-life balance, participation in decision making, health and safety, career development, and health and wellness programs) will result in an organizational climate of care and concern for employees that employees will respond to by caring for the organization which they will enact with higher levels of engagement. This model provides many avenues for future research and practice on HRM and employee engagement and introduces the notion of a caring HRM system and an organizational climate of care and concern for employees to the literature on employee engagement.     

Design of a terminal solution for integration of in-home health care devices and services towards the Internet-of-Things

In-home health care services based on the Internet-of-Things are promising to resolve the challenges caused by the ageing of population. But the existing research is rather scattered and shows lack of interoperability. In this article, a business-technology co-design methodology is proposed for cross-boundary integration of in-home health care devices and services. In this framework, three key elements of a solution (business model, device and service integration architecture and information system integration architecture) are organically integrated and aligned. In particular, a cooperative Health-IoT ecosystem is formulated, and information systems of all stakeholders are integrated in a cooperative health cloud as well as extended to patients’ home through the in-home health care station (IHHS). Design principles of the IHHS includes the reuse of 3C platform, certification of the Health Extension, interoperability and extendibility, convenient and trusted software distribution, standardised and secured electrical health care record handling, effective service composition and efficient data fusion. These principles are applied to the design of an IHHS solution called iMedBox. Detailed device and service integration architecture and hardware and software architecture are presented and verified by an implemented prototype. The quantitative performance analysis and field trials have confirmed the feasibility of the proposed design methodology and solution.     

Developing design principles for the digitalisation of purchasing and supply management

This paper develops an approach to evaluating designs for digitalisation interventions in purchasing and supply management (PSM), and identifies some fundamental design principles for such interventions. A set of advanced technologies for digitalisation and a theory-based set of seven value drivers for PSM are identified for the proposed grid to facilitate the design of applications and interventions for digitalising PSM. The grid relates the digital technologies to the PSM value drivers in a matrix-like manner, allowing the structured consideration of the space defined by these two dimensions. The proposed approach to the strategic evolution of digitalisation in PSM is tested and its utility is demonstrated in analyses of practitioner literature and multiple case-study-based perspectives on PSM digitalisation. Two fundamental design principles relating to the use of the grid, or to the filling of its space, are set out, thus the research provides new theoretical perspectives on the design of advanced forms of PSM digitalisation. The proposed grid may be used in application design, communicating current and future states of PSM digitalisation to stakeholders, and specifically in developing a future-oriented strategy with a digitalization element for the PSM function.     

浅析信息化的门诊移动输液系统

随着计算机技术在医疗卫生行业的广泛应用,我国医院信息化系统建设有了较大的发展。本文以数字化的移动输液系统管理为例,阐述了移动输液系统的组成,运用以及优势,充分证明了信息化在现在医疗管理中的作用无可替代。     

Follow the trails: A path to systematically designing corporate alumni programs

Organizations today are facing increasing amounts of turnover and evolving labor markets. When employees leave they become corporate alumni, which initial research suggests are an important and valuable part of an organization’s network. Corporate alumni can provide value as brand ambassadors, a source of employee referral, as a return employee (i.e. boomerang), or through knowledge sharing. One way to establish a strong network of alumni and achieve some of these benefits is to establish a corporate alumni program (CAP). Although CAPs are increasingly being recognized as beneficial for organizations, little is known about how to systematically design and implement these programs to enhance the likelihood of success. In this article, we utilize instructional systems design processes to offer guidance for how to strategically develop CAPs. We analyze existing programs to highlight common elements and use this research as a basis for creating the TRAILS typology, a way to designate practices for CAP implementation. We also suggest ways to evaluate and determine whether these programs are successful.     

Managing Persistent Tensions on the Frontline: A Configurational Perspective on Ambidexterity

Ambidexterity research has noted that firms’ simultaneous pursuit of exploration and exploitation causes organizational tensions that are difficult to resolve. To make these tensions manageable, scholars have generally suggested that senior managers take the central role in designing organizational solutions, such as the structural separation or contextual integration of the exploratory and exploitative tasks. Yet, in an inductive study of ten corporate innovation initiatives, we find that our informants assigned far less importance to the senior managers’ initial design choices than to the frontline managers’ subsequent configurational practices. Frontline managers used these practices to constantly adapt and align their initiatives’ organizational contexts, which allowed them to cope with persistent exploration‐exploitation tensions in their daily business activities. Based on these empirical insights and drawing on paradox theory, we develop a configurational perspective on ambidexterity, where frontline managers play a more central, proactive, and strategic role than purported by the established design perspective on ambidexterity.     

Designing business models in circular economy: A systematic literature review and research agenda

The concept of circular economy is increasingly receiving attention in different domains, including strategic management, operations management, and technology management. It requires companies to design their business model (i.e., the value network, the relationships with the supply chain partners, and the value propositions towards customers) around a new concept of sustainable development that reduces consumption of natural resources and preserves the environment. However, extant research falls short in terms of explaining how companies design their business model according to the circular economy principles. Starting from this premise, the present paper provides a systematic review of the literature on the design of business models in the context of circular economy, aiming to offer an overview of the state of research and outline a promising research agenda.     

数字化技术支持下工业设计美学与文化的变革

现代数字化技术和手段用于工业设计,对传统的设计观念和方法产生了很大的冲击。本文从数字化工业设计美学产生的必然性及背景研究入手,从而探讨将工业设计置于数字化环境中重新解构,使之回归设计的本质。从数字化设计技术、艺术及数字化设计媒体等三方面,探讨了数字化工业设计美学及其特性。从曲面的处理及体面关系的复杂化等两方面,研究了数字技术与产品造型的关系。     

The Sociomaterial Negotiation of Social Entrepreneurs’ Meaningful Work

This research examines the role of digital technology in the constitution of meaningful work. Adopting a sociomaterial perspective, we argue that meaningful work emerges as an outcome of a complex negotiation between individuals and their digital devices. This process was explored through video diaries and interviews with social entrepreneurs, capturing moments of their everyday meaning‐making and encouraging reflexivity. Accounting for their sociomaterial practice led participants to reaffirm their work as uniquely meaningful, produce more nuanced accounts of meaningfulness and/or make pragmatic adjustments to their meaning making. Whilst authenticity was a key meta‐narrative in these accounts, it also produced tensional knots which, in their unravelling, required the adoption of more practicable meanings of work. The paper concludes by urging scholars to de‐centre the human from their analysis to provide a more complete account of meaningful work.     

大数据时代下企业财务管理的创新研究

当下市场的竞争是科技的竞争,先进技术在企业内部的融入和渗透能够提升工作效率.为了优化市场环境,为群众提供更多便利,企业需要重视对先进技术的应用,特别是对大数据技术的运用,能够为企业变革和转型提供重要支持.大数据技术作为信息技术的重要组成部分,为企业的生产运行提供了帮助,尤其是财务管理工作更需要进行优化和创新,为企业日常经济活动的顺利开展提供新的支持和保障.在大数据技术支持下,企业财务管理模式发生了翻天覆地的变化,给财务部门工作人员的日常工作带来了诸多便利.因此,企业想要在信息时代背景下稳定健康发展,需要重视大数据技术的渗透和使用,同时要分析大数据的基本内涵对企业财务管理工作的作用,且深入探索大数据技术在企业财务管理应用过程中出现的问题,并借助针对性的策略予以处理和优化,以突显大数据技术的重要价值,强化企业财务管理的效果.     

黑龙江省休闲农业发展战略研究

本文在分析黑龙江休闲农业发展现状的基础上,从优势、劣势、机会、威胁对黑龙江省休闲农业的发展进行了剖析,目的是从战略的角度明确黑龙江省休闲农业发展的思想、原则、重点。最后,从制定休闲农业发展规划、优化发展环境、拓宽融资渠道、进行产业化经营方面阐述了黑龙江省休闲农业发展的配套措施。     

注剂式带压密封技术的应用

简要介绍了注剂式带压密封技术的基本原理、特点以及密封的注意事项,重点介绍了注剂式带压密封技术在炼化装置、工业管道及电力系统中的应用。     

中韩研究生教学模式对比研究

在韩国,科技改变了包括教育在内的现代社会的方方面面。现代教学模式帮助研究生在全球经济一体化的时代里留下他们自己的篇章。在科技和教育的融合发展方面,韩国的教育体制居世界最先进之列。由于技术和社会因素的影响,中韩研究生教学模式差别较大。韩国教学模式注重理论与实践的结合,是适时性西方理论与根基性亚洲文化的混合。韩国教学模式的设计与应用着眼于学生创新思维与实践能力的培养,在理论和实践上对我国的传统研究生教学改革具有重要的借鉴意义。     

Beyond the management–employee dyad: supply chain initiatives in shipping

This article examines supply chain health and safety initiatives in the oil shipping industry. In particular, it explores the triangular relationships between ship cargo clients, shipping company management and seafarers and reveals the inherent complexities and tensions involved. It shows that while managers capitalise on the supply chain pressure to squeeze more effort out of seafarers, seafarers tend to adhere to the corporate line colluding with managers to hide defects and falsify records. Nevertheless, seafarers occasionally use the supply chain leverage to their advantage by tactically exposing ship defects during ship inspections.     

Dynamic business modeling for sustainability: Exploring a system dynamics perspective to develop sustainable business models

In the last decade, business models for sustainability have gained increasing attraction by corporate sustainability scholars with international conferences and scientific journals encouraging the development of the debate on their design, use and innovation processes. Capitalizing on the basic principles, requirements, and methodological limitations found in the literature on sustainability‐oriented business model design, this paper aims to conceptualize a dynamic business modeling for sustainability approach, which combines an adapted sustainable business model canvas and system dynamics modeling. To this end, the paper also illustrates the key operating principles of the proposed approach through an exemplary application to Patagonia's business model. Findings suggest that dynamic business modeling for sustainability may contribute to sustainable business model research and practice by introducing a systemic design tool, which frames environmental, social, and economic drivers of value generation into a dynamic business model causal feedback structure, thus overcoming methodological gaps of the extant business model design tools.