Organizational Outlook Research Articles

Being Relevant

Abstract: In her first column, new NATS President Alexis Davis-Hazell articulates a vision for the relevance of NATS in the 21st century. She reflects on the original objectives of NATS’ charter members and explores questions that help form an organizational outlook reaching into the year 2044. Davis-Hazell introduces a philosophy of retention involving representation of multiple cultural and professional identities, generations, and musical genres within chapter, district, and region leadership. She challenges current members to nominate more independent teachers for leadership positions and to support the investment in technological advancements for the association that will move us toward fulfilling NATS’ vision.

Digital supply chains in omnichannel retail: A conceptual framework

AbstractThis inductive research provides a deeper understanding of the digital transformation of retail supply chains and its underlying impact on supply chain strategy and operational structure. In this context, we develop a conceptual framework of digital retail supply chains to identify the key elements and their interactions. We offer a theoretically derived explanation of the ecosystem characterization of digital supply chains and show how retail supply chains fit this characterization. The supply chain ecosystem provides retail firms a way to strategize an organizational outlook that enables digitization of conventional supply chain processes. We find that emerging digital supply chains harness corporate digital awareness to operate within an ecosystem that iteratively guides the digital transformation process. The subsequent analysis highlights a digital transformation process that incorporates real‐time reporting, speed of discovery/action, visibility across the enterprise, and flexibility to react to environmental changes. Consequently, these contributing elements enable executional flexibility that is the hallmark of digital supply chains. We conclude by theorizing relevant research propositions that describe relational connections among the constituent elements of the digital supply chain framework and offer avenues for future research.

Distance discount in the green vehicle routing problem offered by external carriers

This study suggested a model for the Green Vehicle Routing Problem (GVRP) regarding distance discount strategy. For the first time,we defined distance discount strategy based on intervals for a vehicle routing problem. The proposed model attempts to minimize the total cost of the system by selecting the different vehicles and paths that have time and fuel constraints while external carriers offer the distance discount. This model is formulated by mixed-integer linear programming and classified as NP-hard. The feasibility of this issue depends on the location of customers and fuel stations. Two metaheuristic algorithms such as tabu search (TS) and simulated annealing (SA) have been developed beside the exact method, and the efficiency of our metaheuristic methods have been examined through 40 benchmark instances of different sizes and 16 randomly generated numerical instances. Computational results show superior performance of the simulated annealing in comparison with the tabu search for test problems and the cost efficiency owing to the distance discount from the organization's outlook.

A scientific attempt to Identify and prioritize the elements effective on the development of strategic thinking in the MAPNA Group Corporation

The purpose of the present study was to identify the effective elements on strategic thinking in the MAPNA Group Corporation whilst its' method of conduction is a mixed one. Once interviews were completed, 44 raw datasets were identified which were transformed into 28 mutual codes that were further categorized in 6 concepts that felt under two categories; ultimately a theory was made. Among the several elements that have been found effective on strategic thinking it can be referred to organizational structure, reward system, organizational culture, organizational agility, organizational outlook, organizational creativity and innovation. In the qualitative part, the population of the present study includes the entire experts and elites of the MAPNA Group Corporation and the identified elements have been subjected to numerical analyses in form of hypotheses. In addition in the quantitative part, the population of the study includes the entire employees of the MAPNA Group Corporation among whom 154 individuals have been selected as the samples of the study. results of the study have shown that the identified elements are not of equal importance and in terms of priority these elements respectively include organizational structure, organizational agility, organizational outlook, organizational creativity and innovationو reward system, organizational culture.

State Registration of Trade Unions: International Labour Organization Outlook and Russian Practice

The article analyzes theoretical and practical issues related to the State registration of trade unions in Russia. The article dwells upon the importance of the institution of the State registration of trade unions in Russia, the way it is regarded by the international bodies and how the Russian practice correlates to the international labour standards. Since there is quite a varied litigation on the subject, it is very relevant. This article discusses: the legal nature of State registration; Convention of the International Labour Organization and the interpretation of the Committee on freedom of Association on this issue; scientific debates about the meaning of State registration for legal status of trade unions; the order of State registration This article also pays attention to the analysis of the most controversial issues arising in the Russian courts in cases of refusal in State registration of trade unions. In addition, the author analyses the opinion of the International Labour Organization to the Russian practice of refusal in State registration of trade unions. The issues concerning the legal nature of State registration of trade unions should be the subject of serious and detailed research in the science of labour law, the results of which should be used to improve trade union legislation and practice of its application in the future.

Work engagement and psychological career resources: An industrial and organizational outlook

This study examined the relationship dynamics between employees’ psychological career resources (measured by the Psychological Career Resources Inventory) and their work engagement (measured by the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale). A quantitative survey was conducted involving a non-probability purposive sample of adults (N = 318) employed in the field of industrial and organisational psychology. A multiple regression analysis indicated that psychological career resources constructs positively and significantly predicts work engagement.

SMEs and social media opportunities: An organizational outlook

Social media usage in SMEs and the impact thereof is viewed as an essential part of modern day organisational operations for SMEs to promote their business both domestically and globally. Social media is interactive and consumer-generated media, new media or citizen media, while conventional media is company generated media which flows in one direction. The research design chosen for this research is descriptive research in conjunction with a quantitative approach. The population will include all SMEs in Gauteng. The sample for the study encompassed of 400 SME owners who currently manage the small businesses in the Gauteng area. The respondents all agree that a large audience can be reached via social media, followed by the ability to create product/service awareness. The conducted research recommends that social media can be cost effective if the SMEs make use of their social networks (professional and personal) and use best practises that enable them to get their adverts or posts shared across social networks. The respondents report a sales, product awareness, consumer support and overall productivity increase. There seems to be an effect of age on the percentage increase in sales, product awareness, consumer support and overall productivity. Although the results show that most SMEs have access to internet only 54.8 % of the respondents use social media to promote their businesses. The research established that that the largest proportion of respondents are new to using social media to create awareness for their products

Yesterday's Organizational Framework for Today's Culture of Fractal Systemicity

In a recent study of more than 2500 organizations in more than 90 countries it was found that organizations worldwide are struggling to engage 21st century employees. We contend that using yesterday’s organizational outlook of ‘whole systems’ is harming organizations in today’s hyper-connectivity and fractal organization. We contribute a systemicity approach, that builds on the work of Bakhtin and Morin. Systemicities theory explains people as contributing members to complex organizations. We propose that if organizations’ leaders and team members adopt this way of viewing the organization that their productivity will increase. We test this with Leximancer by reviewing more than 1000 reviews from America’s top companies and the worst companies to work for. We then discuss how this applies to the workplace and how moving towards a culture of systemicity will increase perceived organizational support, improve productivity and profitability.

Efficiency of non-medicamentous therapy and evaluation of intersystemic relationship between functional reserves of the organism and periodontal status in patients with chronic generalized periodontitis

Mechanisms of mutual influence and aggravation of splanchnic organ and oral cavity diseases are discussed in the context of the integral anthropological approach. The systemic character of analysis of pathogenetic mechanisms of chronic generalized periodontitis dictates the necessity of an absolutely new conceptual outlook of organization and implementation of medical and preventive measures designed to activate sanogenetic responses and to enhance the regulatory potential and functional reserves of the organism in the presence of developing periodontitis. It was shown that inclusion of intermittent hypoxic training in the combined rehabilitative treatment of the patients with chronic periodontitis substantially promotes corrective influences on periodontal tissues and ensures stable clinical effect.

Reengineering information sharing behaviour in organizations

Organizational restructuring focuses on making business operations more flexible and responsive to customers. This has led to team based decision authority structures and horizontal business processes. Concurrently, the management of information has been decentralized in many organizations. Horizontal processes create information interdependencies among previously independent tasks, and call for high levels of information sharing among decision units. However, the decentralization of information management raises the possibility that units controlling specific information repositories may not readily make them available in the required form to other units, leading to poor organizational payoff. Thus it is critical to create an environment which will promote effective information flows across the organization. We suggest that mechanisms involving organizational outlook, social orientation, equitable information processing capability and communication across decision units regarding information requirements can help mitigate the information sharing problem. Using stylized game-theoretic models, we show that these organizationally oriented mechanisms have a sound economic foundation. We use these results to build a managerial basis for improving information exchange.

Reengineering Information Sharing Behaviour in Organizations

Organizational restructuring focuses on making business operations more flexible and responsive to customers. This has led to team based decision authority structures and horizontal business processes. Concurrently, the management of information has been decentralized in many organizations. Horizontal processes create information interdependencies among previously independent tasks, and call for high levels of information sharing among decision units. However, the decentralization of information management raises the possibility that units controlling specific information repositories may not readily make them available in the required form to other units, leading to poor organizational payoff. Thus it is critical to create an environment which will promote effective information flows across the organization. We suggest that mechanisms involving organizational outlook, social orientation, equitable information processing capability and communication across decision units regarding information requirements can help mitigate the information sharing problem. Using stylized game-theoretic models, we show that these organizationally oriented mechanisms have a sound economic foundation. We use these results to build a managerial basis for improving information exchange.

Aluminum protective alloys and the outlook of organization of their production in the Ukraine

A new aluminum protective ATsKM alloy was developed in the Institute for Problems in Materials Science of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences on the basis of industrial wastes and scrap of AMg alloys. Electrochemical polarization investigations demonstrate that the dissolution of this alloy is uniform and not accompanied by passivation both in a 3% NaCl solution and in a medium of saline soil. In addition, its stationary potential is rather high (−1.11 V in the first case and −1.07V in the second case). In the course of field tests on the body of the “Fedor Erozidi” ship in the Baltic Sea and Pacific Ocean, it was shown that the protective potential of ATsKM alloy is by 100 mV more negative than the potential of conventional AP3 alloy. Extensive implementation of ATsKM protectors (whose performance is proved to be quite high) produced according to new native technologies would make it possible to reduce or even eliminate our dependence on imported protectors and save costs spent for the electrochemical protection of metal structures against corrosion under operating conditions.