AMO Factors, HR Outcomes and Performance of Local Employees in Korean MNEs Operating In Myanmar

This study focus on the Human Resource characteristics and management result of local employees in Korean Multinational Enterprises operating in Myanmar. The research objectives are to identify the influencing factors on HR outcomes and performance of local employees in Korean Multinational Enterprises operating in Myanmar. This study uses two stage simple random sampling method and collects the data from 186 respondents from selected 18 Korean companies in Myanmar. The results of the study indicate that among AMO factors, internal motivation and opportunity influence HR outcomes in terms of employee satisfaction and employee engagement. The opportunity factor mostly influences HR outcomes because local employees are satisfied and engaged when they are provided the opportunity to participate their job rather than other features. The result exhibit that employee engagement influences employee performance, while employee satisfaction does not significantly affect employee performance. According to the results, Korean companies operating in Myanmar should improve the opportunity feature, especially for job training and job rotation, and intrinsic motivation in order to improve employee engagement which mostly impact on performance of employee, and recruit local employee with ability relating to person-job fit and job profession

The relationship between income inequality, welfare regimes and aggregate health

The Scandinavian welfare regime is expected to have better aggregate health than other welfare regimes due mainly to its narrow income inequality. This theoretical expectation is in part related to the Wilkinson Hypothesis that, in industrialised nations, a society’s narrow income inequality enhances its aggregate health. This thesis tests both of the above propositions. This is achieved by means of four methods not previously applied to this field, namely a ‘review of reviews’, a decomposition systematic review, a new case selection method, and a use of the OECD regional dataset for the cross-national comparative health study. These new methodological approaches lead to four main findings. First, the Scandinavian welfare regime shows worse-than-expected aggregate health outcomes. This thesis terms this counterintuitive finding as ‘the second Scandinavian puzzle’. Second, the East Asian welfare regime shows unexpectedly good aggregate health, which is proposed as ‘the East Asian puzzle’. Third, regarding the Wilkinson Hypothesis, it is income, rather than income inequality, which is a statistically significant determinant of aggregate health. Fourth, the effects on health of income inequality or welfare regimes reverse over a certain threshold of age, which is termed here ‘the age threshold effect’

Cannula-induced Vertebral Reduction during Kyphoplasty in a Patient with Kummell's Disease

It is with great interest that we read the case report entitled “Spontaneous vertebral reduction during the procedure of kyphoplasty in a patient with Kummell’s disease” by Hur et al., which was published in the 2011 December issue of the Korean Journal of Pain [1]. First, we congratulate the authors on the good outcome achieved by the use of their good surgical skills in a patient on whom it was difficult to perform kyphoplasty. We also appreciate the fact that the authors explained the possible mechanism underlying this rare phenomenon through their extensive literature review. However, we would like to make some comments on their case report. We think that the title of the case report, i.e., “Spontaneous vertebral reduction during the procedure of kyphoplasty in a patient with Kummell’s disease ” is slightly erroneous. The medical dictionar

Cases of ethical violation in research publications: through editorial decision making process

Purpose – To improve and strengthen existing publication and research ethics, KODISA has identified and presented various cases which have violated publication and research ethics and principles in recent years. The editorial office of KODISA has been providing and continues to provide advice and feedback on publication ethics to researchers during peer review and editorial decision making process. Providing advice and feedback on publication ethics will ensure researchers to have an opportunity to correct their mistakes or make appropriate decisions and avoid any violations in research ethics. The purpose of this paper is to identify different cases of ethical violation in research and inform and educate researchers to avoid any violations in publication and research ethics. Furthermore, this article will demonstrate how KODISA journals identify and penalize ethical violations and strengthens its publication ethics and practices. Research design, data and methodology – This paper examines different types of ethical violation in publication and research ethics. The paper identifies and analyzes all ethical violations in research and combines them into five general categories. Those five general types of ethical violations are thoroughly examined and discussed. Results – Ethical violations of research occur in various forms at regular intervals; in other words, unethical researchers tend to commit different types of ethical violations repeatedly at same time. The five categories of ethical violation in research are as follows: (1) Arbitrary changes or additions in author(s) happen frequently in thesis/dissertation related publications. (2) Self plagiarism, submitting same work or mixture of previous works with or without using proper citations, also occurs frequently, but the most common type of plagiarism is changing the statistical results and using them to present as the results of the empirical analysis; (3) Translation plagiarism, another ethical violation in publication, is difficult to detect but occurs frequently; (4) Fabrication of data or statistical analysis also occurs frequently. KODISA requires authors to submit the results of the empirical analysis of the paper (the output of the statistical program) to prevent this type of ethical violation; (5) Mashup or aggregator plagiarism, submitting a mix of several different works with or without proper citations without alterations, is very difficult to detect, and KODISA journals consider this type of plagiarism as the worst ethical violation. Conclusions – There are some individual cases of ethical violation in research and publication that could not be included in the five categories presented throughout the paper. KODISA and its editorial office should continue to develop, revise, and strengthen their publication ethics, to learn and share different ways to detect any ethical violations in research and publication, to train and educate its editorial members and researchers, and to analyze and share different cases of ethical violations with the scholarly community

Diclomezine: 6-(3,5-dichloro-4-methyl­phen­yl)pyridazin-3(2H)-one

In the title compound, C11H8Cl2N2O, the benzene and pyridazine rings are tilted by 8.6 (1)° relative to each other. In the crystal, pairs of inter­molecular N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds form centrosymmetric dimers. π–π contacts with centroid–centroid distances of 3.698 (2) and 3.751 (1) Å and halogen–halogen inter­actions [3.379 (1) Å] also stabilize the structure