Enterprise Life Research Articles

Anti-planning in the 1940s: the paradox of Florence Taylor

In her lifetime Florence Taylor was celebrated as an advocate of town planning reform in Australia. Based in Sydney, she trained as an architect but spent most of her long professional life as a publisher and trade journalist, developing strong ties with the building industry. Unified by a strong environmental determinist position, early preoccupations with eradicating slums segued into numerous practical suggestions for improving city efficiency, focusing on urban renewal and traffic planning. Taylor was nonetheless often critical of planning in practice. As a businesswoman, she became antagonistic to planning as an activity of the modern state because of its apparent privileging of the public sector and over-regulation of private enterprise and everyday life. This ideological tension became acute in the 1940s as planning moved from its early foundation in propaganda and voluntary advocacy towards statutory oversight. While Taylor's life and career continued to be celebrated by her professional and social peers into the 1950s, her identification with mainstream town planning declined. This paper explores the contradictions in Florence Taylor's encounters with planning in shifting from advocate to antagonist.

Establishment of Quality Cost Control Balance System Forconstruction Enterprise

Quality is the life of the construction enterprise,reducing the cost of construction is the goal of enterprise pursuit, the factors must be considered are analyzed in the establishment of construction enterprise quality cost control system, according to the observation, comparative observation and expected results, when necessary corrective action steps, the quality cost control system is established in construction enterprises, in order to achieve the best balance of quality and cost of the construction enterprise

Study on Software Quality Improvement based on Rayleigh Model and PDCA Model

As the software industry gradually becomes mature, software quality is regarded as the life of a software enterprise. This article discusses how to improve the quality of software, applies Rayleigh model and PDCA model to the software quality management, combines with the defect removal effectiveness index, exerts PDCA model to solve the problem of quality management objectives when using the Rayleigh model in bidirectional quality improvement strategies of software quality management, and puts it into the application to achieve good results. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/telkomnika.v11i8.308 6

Empirical Analysis about Satisfaction Influencing Factors of Core Employee in Chinese Small and Micro Enterprise

The small and micro enterprises have made an important part of the national economy, and they develop rapidly in re- cent years. Now, there are a large number of small and micro enterprises in China. They have strong employment ab- sorption ability, and they are important objects that are supported by the state. However, the average life of small and micro enterprises is relatively short and the ability of sustainable development is not strong. The main reason is the turnover of enterprises’ core staff. There are many reasons that cause the loss of core staff, including the development scale and development prospect of the small micro enterprise, and the related human resource decisions. Therefore, this paper is devoted to the study of factors that affect satisfaction of core staff in small and micro enterprises, and explores what factor plays a key role in improving the core employee satisfaction. The characteristic of this paper is to evaluate the satisfaction degree by combining the method of entropy weight method with grey relational analysis, and to establish the corresponding model. The model can reduce the influence of subjective factors, and improve the analysis accuracy of satisfaction influencing factors, thus practically provide a theoretical basis for the decision-making about human resources of small micro enterprise.

Enterprise ethical climate changes over life cycle stages

PurposeLife cycle stages may see, result from, and/or cause, changes in culture and climate as the right‐brain attributes of both managers and their co‐workers. A four‐stage model is used to perceive these possible changes. Findings are tested in Slovenian enterprises. Differences per stages may be crucial and should therefore be known to managers/owners. Based on the case study research, this paper aims to suggest that enterprise awareness of importance of ethical climate can be of essential meaning for its long‐term success. The purpose of this paper is to discover differences in enterprise ethical climate in different enterprise life cycle stages and to identify their importance for active ethical climate care by the enterprises.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, the qualitative research is applied. The research cognitions on ethical climate are discussed in application of the dialectical systems theory.FindingsThe paper finds that there are some differences in enterprise ethical climate for enterprise life cycle stages and indicates a significant presence of the “rule”, “law and code” and “instrumental” ethical climates. Movement towards a more bureaucratic method of enterprise functioning, as an enterprise moves from the pioneer stage towards the stage of turn‐over, was also found.Practical implicationsThis paper gives us some insights in the state of ethical climate in Slovenian enterprises. In a frame of practical implications, a further research should be done to show which measures of such ethical climate implementation should be used to stimulate the enterprises' innovative behaviour in accordance with the state of enterprise's life cycle stage.Originality/valueThe available literature does not provide for a similar research of linkage between the ethical climate and enterprises' life cycle.

Better Secure than Sorry

Does your organisation protect the resource travelling within its information pathways, and stored in databases and files, as well as it protects its physical space? Protecting offices, labs, manufacturing floors - even parking areas - from unauthorised individuals, is a given. Validating staff before entry, and during the workday, is second-nature to most business managers. Can you say the same for the sensitive information that is your enterprise's life blood - keeping client and employee information confidential, maintaining competitive advantage, complying with industry and government regulations?

The Virtual Enterprise in the Future Knowledge Society

This study approaches, from the conceptual viewpoint, the modern enterprise and information and communication technologies, which make the connection with the virtual enterprise. As concerns the virtual enterprise, we are interested in the components of such a enterprise, in the structure of its information system and in the changes that will occur in the life of the virtual enterprise. Here are some questions that we would like to give answers to bellow.

“Mercantile Monasteries”: Shops, Shop Assistants, and Shop Life in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain

It is now over twenty years since Geoffrey Crossick first urged historians to investigate the English lower middle class. On that occasion he suggested that small business interests and white-collar employees be designated the two wings of a residual lower middle class. Historians speculated that the members of this class were bound together by their marginality to the social, cultural, and economic world of the middle class and by their pathetic attempts to ape the gentility of their superiors. Such an analysis confirmed the unheroic nature of the lower-middle-classmentalitéand explains Crossick's conclusion that this group “claimed no vital social role.” Crossick's more recent work, in collaboration with Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, offers a reevaluation of this earlier position and concludes that white-collar and small business interests should not be considered to occupy the same social station. Crossick and Haupt's work is significant because both authors make it clear that they now credit the petite bourgeoisie of small business families in Europe with a greater spirit of independence than they had earlier acknowledged. They argue convincingly that the petite bourgeoisie created their own social and cultural world, centered on the interrelationship between enterprise and family life, which enabled them to react more purposefully to outside social forces and agencies.By hiving off these small business interests from the old lower middle class, we are left with a rump of white-collar workers who collectively formed a lower middle class that shared many common experiences and hence is attractive to historians as a potentially more cohesive social body.

Aide à la décision pour réponse à appel d'offre et management du Système d'Information

ABSTRACT Decision support for bidding processes concerning complex and innovative products manufactured on a small scale, must face project management enterprise organisation and life—cycle oriented design, which are the main organisational approaches in manufacturing and design. The DECIDE project (DECIsion support for optimal biDding in a competitive business Environment—ESPRIT n° 22298) aims a methodology and a related decision support system to define the technical solution and the price of a product during the bidding process. To face project management organisation and life—cycle design, it requires Information System management procedures. A model for Information System management is proposed which concurs more largely to business process reengineering as its objectives and applications are multiple: enterprise integration media, internal information source organisation for strategic decision support system, co—operative work support and knowledge capitalisation over all the product life-cycle.

Formal model of single agent planning situations

Planning is perhaps the single most important activity in any domain, be it a business enterprise, academics or personal life. However most efforts in a Artificial Intelligence to provideintelligent planners have met with a very limited success. Successful, non-trivial applications are limited to very domain and situation specific cases. A generic component which can serve as a schema or template from which planning aids to any specific domain can be instantiated would be very much useful in building specific planning applications. A formal method for characterizing the needed capabilities of a generic component is required. In this paper we present such a method and illustrate its use through analysis of simple agent planiing situations. The result of this analysis is presented in the form of an ontology, and a formal languags with an associated model theoretic semantics. The results presented can be used as a framework for benchmarking to compare and discriminate between the knowledge/information representation capabilites of different software systems. The results also serve as a model for formalizing the description of a particular class of engineering, business or manufacturing planning activities. The focus of this paper is on thekowledge andinformation that must berepresented rather than onplan generation strategies.

The Right of Labor to Participate Actively in the Life of Enterprise

The Right of Labor to Participate Actively in the Life of Enterprise. Un article de la revue Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations (Volume 4, numéro 1, septembre 1948, p. 1-10) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.