Innovative Culture and Firm Performance of Medical Device Companies: Mediating Effects of Investment in Education and Training

This research explored the mediating effect of investment in education and training relating to the innovative culture and organizational performance of medical device companies. We used the Human Capital Corporate Panel data provided by the Korea Vocational Competency Development Institute. In the industrial classification system of panel data, the industries related to medical devices were extracted and conclusively analyzed for 8629 workers and 368 companies. The independent and dependent variables were innovative culture and corporation performance, respectively. Investment in training and education was a mediating variable between the independent and dependent variables. Quantitative data were analyzed using SPSS software. A higher level of organizational satisfaction emerged in an innovative culture. Innovative culture positively affected organizational satisfaction. Further, investment in education and training to promote an innovative culture positively affected organizational satisfaction. Medical device companies should improve their performance by creating an innovative culture.

Integrating Data Envelopment Analysis and Grey System Theory to Access Ho Chi Minh City Power Corporation Performance Analysis

Any study of the development of the economy must take into account the role of the electricity sector. This is the sector promoting production, improving competitiveness, and attracting investment. With the motto "electricity goes one step ahead," the power sector has contributed to the restructuring of the industry, economic recovery and growth, security and defense. Specifically, agriculture, forestry and fishery production activities of rural and mountainous areas have been oriented toward commodity and export markets. Improved services and quality of electricity have encouraged domestic and foreign businesses to be comfortable and expand their production. This study will provide some insights after combining the results of Data Envelopment Analysis and Grey System Theory – GM(1,1). Using Data Envelopment Analysis, the researcher input some performance attributes, classify them as inputs and outputs, and then use them for Data Envelopment Analysis researches. For evaluating this industry, the researcher used Malmquist Productivity Index from 2012 to 2016 and used GM (1,1) for forecasting, which provides better “Past – Present – Future” insights for decision makers.

Securing human rights through risk-management methods: Breakthrough or misalignment?

This is a study of three authoritative instruments that promote a common idea: economic activities and development should be conducted with respect for human rights. The World Bank Framework, the International Financial Corporation Performance Standards and the UN Guiding Principles on business and human rights are examined to get clarity on how human rights risk management differs from more conventional management approaches. The focus here is on prevention of human rights impacts. Do the three instruments employ approaches adequate for handling human rights risks? To understand prevention, one needs to reflect on what makes human rights a particular type of impact and account for the regulatory context of protecting human rights transnationally. The analysis identifies four ‘offsets’ through which economic decision-makers can distort their human rights performance and place causal observers at a disadvantage. Prevention becomes an issue of how to relate to ‘residual impacts’ on human rights. This article finds that the ‘hierarchy or mitigation’ and even ‘human rights due diligence’ under illuminate the challenge. The proposal here is to add ‘reduction at source’ as a parameter of human rights risk management. The sources for this analysis are the three instruments, and the practice of implementing organizations, particularly IFC projects, CAO cases, impact assessments, and CSR reports. In conclusion, the potential for cross-fertilization among instruments is genuine. Increased clarity on prevention of human rights impacts should assist economic decision-makers in their risk management task and casual observers in assessing their performance.

Environmental Strategic Planning Rumah Sakit Persahabatan Menuju Green Hospital

The objective of this study is aim at finding out environmental strategic planning differences between what has been conducted by Persahabatan state hospital compared to theoretical prescription in building to be a green hospital. A descriptive-theoretical method has been applied for this purpose by implementing a content analysis which involved analyzing short/long term hospital strategic planning documents, 2015/2016. The results of this study revealed that environmental strategic management has been prepared in term of short (1 year) and long term (5 year plan), but it was not carried out in detail concern with budget and human resource allocation in accordance to their specialization in managing all green hospital concepts such as green building, the efficient use of electric energy, water, efficient use of papers, preventing air and water pollution, waste management, gardening, and building green corporate culture which emphasizing on environmental hospital performance. The later should be new concept in developing an environmental strategic planning as one of the contributions toward a green hospital which was neglected by some environmental strategic planning theories. Keywords: environmental strategic planning, waste management, green building, environmental corporation performance, green hospital.

Investigation the Effects of Total Quality Management Implementations on Organizational Performance in Production Corporations: The Sample of Ankara-Ostim

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of Total Quality Management (TQM) applications on organizational performance depends on Production Performance (PP) within context of this aim it is made Anova, correlation and regression analyses by the results of survey data in production corporations that implement TQM and Quality Management Systems (QMS). As a result of these analyses although positive relationship is found between TQM and corporation performance, it is not found explanatory relationship between TQM implementation degree and PP degree. Keywords: Total quality management, organizational performance, production performance;