{"title":"Searching for the Optimum Number of Capacitated Materialistic Cars for an Automotive Manufacturing Cell Using a Shuffled Frog Leap Algorithm","authors":"Denise Barzaga, Elías Carrum","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-8131-4.CH020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8131-4.CH020","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the worldwide strengthening of the automotive sector, it presents itself as a challenge for the companies that comprise it to immerse themselves in processes of continuous improvement that contribute to increasing the satisfaction of the needs of its customers, as well as achieving a better positioning in the market. This goal is impossible to reach without proper design and management of the supply chain, consideration of issues related to logistics and inclusion of innovative techniques. In the chapter, the authors considered a manufacturing cell responsible for making the assembly of seats for the automotive industry. Waiting times and blocking of machines are incurred by not using the optimum number of vehicles to be used for the transfer of materials and the capacity with which they should count. The objective of this research is to know near-optimum quantities and capacities of the vehicles, materialistic cars, to avoid this situation. The use of mathematical formulations, simulation, and optimization techniques will be used to solve the problem.","PeriodicalId":190605,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132302911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Cruz-Reyes, R. Espín-Andrade, Fernando López Irrarragorri, César Medina-Trejo, José Tristán, Daniel Martínez-Vega, Carlos E. Peralta
{"title":"Use of Compensatory Fuzzy Logic for Knowledge Discovery Applied to the Warehouse Order Picking Problem for Real-Time Order Batching","authors":"L. Cruz-Reyes, R. Espín-Andrade, Fernando López Irrarragorri, César Medina-Trejo, José Tristán, Daniel Martínez-Vega, Carlos E. Peralta","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-8131-4.CH004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8131-4.CH004","url":null,"abstract":"Order picking is an activity in a warehouse, carried out by a team, where customer orders are prepared. It is also the activity with the highest logistic costs in a company. In this chapter, a proposal is presented aimed at improving the order picking process in a warehouse. Order picking continues to attract the attention of people in charge of optimizing processes in a company for minimizing costs. There are several approaches to order picking such as discrete picking, batch picking, and zone picking. The purpose of this study is mainly oriented toward the reduction of batch picking times to achieve an improvement in the service. In this chapter is proposed the application of compensatory fuzzy logic (CFL), which is a branch of classical logic and is also discussed the possibility of making real-time order batches (dynamic batching) by using compensatory fuzzy rules for the classification of incoming orders.","PeriodicalId":190605,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132527815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Green Work-Life Balance and Global Leadership in Industry 4.0","authors":"I. Ganiyu, Olufemi Michael Oladejo","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-3347-5.ch014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3347-5.ch014","url":null,"abstract":"Industrialization brought about by the development in science and technology is like a double-edged sword. Despite the benefit of the massive industrialization to humanity, it is noted to exert huge pressure on the ecosystem and the environment. Green work-life balance is an emerging concept aims at reshaping the work-life debate by introducing environmental dimension. Employees as agents of change are saddled with the implementation of organizational green work-life balance policy. However, the implementation of green work-life balance policy across the diverse culture by multinational companies poses a serious challenge. This chapter explores green work-life balance and global leadership in Industry 4.0.","PeriodicalId":190605,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development","volume":"164 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131510557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"E-WOM as a New Paradigm in the Consumer Decision-Making Process","authors":"E. Güven, Volkan Yakın","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-5993-1.CH004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5993-1.CH004","url":null,"abstract":"Consumer-to-consumer communications in online environments are of a vital importance to the consumer decision-making process. This process consists of five phases, each affected by eWOM communications deeply from the stimulation to the post-purchase behavior. Among all other factors having an impact on this process, the impact of eWOM has a distinguished role. As the technology grows and the consumers use internet and the reviews via internet, they become more and more attached to these reviews to make a purchase decision. In this chapter, the authors make a comprehensive explanation about the consumer decision-making process and explain the relationship of the decision-making phases with eWOM communications.","PeriodicalId":190605,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132813667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global Fintech Market","authors":"Konstantinos Tsanis, Vasilios Stouraitis","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-8346-3.ch001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8346-3.ch001","url":null,"abstract":"The FinTech industry has been growing rapidly and significantly, becoming the go-to service provider for some of the most important financial services, such as lending and payments. Since 2020, the onset of COVID-19 has substantially impacted the industry, both positively and negatively. This chapter discusses the recent performance of the FinTech industry based on a large-scale survey across the globe. The chapter then focuses on analysing the ‘new normal' in banking, after the pandemic era, based on the findings of the global survey, with explicit focus on the FinTech sector, followed by further implications on the impact that the pandemic had in the traditional banking sector. The chapter concludes by providing an overview of the emerging opportunities that appear in the FinTech sector.","PeriodicalId":190605,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130758846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plight of Employees, Migrant Workers, and the Middle Class in India During COVID-19","authors":"V. Joshi, Supreet Ahluwalia","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-8346-3.ch009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8346-3.ch009","url":null,"abstract":"The chapter discusses condition of employees, migrant workers, and middle classes in India during COVID-19. How each of them faced the pandemic and how their conditions deteriorated drastically are explored. The chapter highlights how labour laws changed, how training and development programs were shelved, and how millions of employees ended up losing jobs during the pandemic. Impact of job loss and its trickledown effects changed the way the Indian middle class was living and forced them to take up a war of their own. It changed the socio-economic scenario and forced several micro, small, and medium enterprises to close shop. SMEs rose to the challenge and either changed the line of business or adopted innovative business practices so as to survive and sustain. Changed scoio-economic environment further became more complex and volatile as few large corporations, pharmaceutical companies, healthcare providers, and hospitals in India started considering the pandemic an opportunity to make super normal profits. The Indian middle class rose to the challenge and proved their never say die attitude!","PeriodicalId":190605,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development","volume":"174 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133040806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crafting Engaged Employees Through Positive Work Environment","authors":"Tanusree Chakraborty, M. Ganguly","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-7799-7.CH011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7799-7.CH011","url":null,"abstract":"The chapter focuses on the positive aspects of the work environment and attempts to throw light on how in organizations different perspectives of positive work, positive social connections, positive culture leads with a more satisfying work environment and engaged employees. Beginning with an understanding of the definitions of employee engagement, the chapter takes the reader through the pillars of positive work environment, through the significance of fulfilling relationships at work, leading to greater employee engagement, importance of hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism (HERO), and communication in enhancing employee engagement and to a greater organizational oeuvre. The chapter has tried to cogitate that a culture of employee engagement can be built, and it should be fabricated through the tenacious efforts of managers and leaders in the organization. Thus, the chapter highlights that employee engagement should in itself become the culture of any organization, and the role of positive work environment towards building this culture is indispensable.","PeriodicalId":190605,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132702680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Network Analysis","authors":"Yuh-Wen Chen","doi":"10.4135/9781452244723.n495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781452244723.n495","url":null,"abstract":"Social network analysis (SNA) is an attractive problem for a long time when social communities were popular since 2010. Scholars like to explore the meaning behind the numerous interactions generated at these social media sites. The primary and essential issue of SNA is to monitor, estimate, and engage the potential influencers who are most relevant and active to network. If we can analyze the social network this way, business enterprises could use minimal efforts to sustain the activity of influential users, improve sales, and enhance their reputations. In this chapter, a research framework based on multiple-criteria decision making (MCDM) is proposed. The authors will show how scholars could use dynamic self-organizing map (SOM) based on multiple-objective evolving algorithm (MOEA) and static weighted influence non-linear gauge system (WINGS) to analyze a social network. Finally, comparisons are made between the innovative approaches and the methods in tradition.","PeriodicalId":190605,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128894910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Tale of Two Hyperlocal Family-Run Stores","authors":"Shalin Hai-Jew","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-8346-3.ch003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8346-3.ch003","url":null,"abstract":"A sub-class of small and medium(-sized) enterprises (SMEs) are family-run groceries and restaurants, both businesses hard hit by the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic, given the high-contact person-to-person nature of both. In one American Midwestern town, there are two stores that carry Asian foodstuffs. These are B2C and B2B businesses with a limited client base and tight profit margins. Theirs are pressured businesses given the racialized cultural atmosphere around COVID-19 in the US. Both businesses took different and limited strategies to survive in this COVID-19 era. This work uses qualitative research techniques—primary mixed methods research (in a light auto-ethnography) and publicly available data sources—to conduct an in-depth content analysis to examine the two family-run stores. Some ideas are advanced about ways to support such hyperlocal stores.","PeriodicalId":190605,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131293603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Future of Work","authors":"E. N. Abe, Isaac Abe, O. Adisa","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-3347-5.ch015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3347-5.ch015","url":null,"abstract":"Work as we know it has changed with the emergence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). Prior to the advent of the 41R, skill gaps have been widening. Though the 4IR comes with bright projections, it also will predict the way things are done and the requisite skills to have. Clearly, not everyone will be up to date with the needed skills in the future work environment. Intricate underlying factors about the future of work have fuelled debates bothering on the issues of digitization on work and professions, artificial intelligence (AI), and the uncertainty of work and careers left after automation. The changing patterns of work and work arrangements, the gig economy, as well as fissured jobs (involving employment as outsourced services) are of great concern. Also rife are matters around work-skill misalignment expected in the 4IR as the presentation skills that employees have may not be relevant in the new world of work. Therefore, skill obsolescence and the need to reskill and/or upskill is expected.","PeriodicalId":190605,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115385944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}