Today, as technology advances and market competition for products intensifies, the product design to improve customer satisfaction by accurately identifying customer needs is emerging as a very important issue for company. Accordingly, the customer-oriented or customer-centered design that maximizes customer satisfaction by grasping and analyzing customer requirements is in the spotlight as an important design theory. In this study, the customer-oriented design is defined as finding the optimal value of design variable with the maximum overall customer satisfaction while minimizing the difference in individual customer satisfaction responded to various customers from multiple product quality characteristics from the perspective of robust design. Therefore, this study presents a new method for modeling the customer preference structure as the different sets of desirability functions for multiple quality characteristics and proposes a new customer-oriented design approach by applying the desirability functions to Taguchi’s robust design process to deal with multi-characteristic design problem. Finally, the proposed method is illustrated with the Kansei engineering design problem of wine glass.

Today, as technology advances and market competition for products intensifies, the design to improve product satisfaction by accurately identifying customer requirements is emerging as a very important problem for company. Accordingly, Customer-Oriented Design, that maximizes customer satisfaction by grasping and analyzing customer requirements, is in the spotlight as an important design theory. In this study, Customer- Oriented Design is defined as finding the optimal value of the design variable with the maximum overall customer satisfaction while minimizing the difference in individual customer satisfaction responded to various customers from multiple product quality characteristics from the perspective of robust design. Therefore, in this work, we present a new method for generating a Desirability Function for each quality characteristic to deal with the multi characteristic parameter design with multiple quality characteristics. And we propose a new Customer-Oriented Design methodology that applies these Desirability Functions to Taguchi’s parameter design process.

최근의 조직은 기술혁신을 활용하여 성과를 창출하기 위해 위계적인 조직에서 팀 기반의 조직으로 변 화하며, 업무가 팀 단위로 수행되고 있다. 본 연구는 팀 구성원들이 긍정적 상호작용을 통해 공동의 목표를 달성하는 협업의 중요성이 커지고 있다는 점에 초점을 두었다. 구성원 개인의 팀 협력에 영향을 미치는 개인과 팀 수준의 선행변수들의 상호작용 과정을 확인하고자 팀 지향적 조직시민행동이 팀 협력에 미치는 영향을 검증하였다. 다수준이론 관점에서 팀 의사소통이 교차수준(cross-level) 조절효과를 보이는지 확인하였고, 실무적 관점에서 고객 관련 직무(즉, 영업 대 사후관리(A/S))가 개인수준에서 조절효과를 나타내는지 검증하였다. 실증 분석 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째 팀 지향적 조직시민행동은 팀 협력에 정적(+)인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 팀 의사소통은 팀 지향적 조직시민행동과 팀 협력의 관계를 팀 수준에서 조절하였다. 셋째, 고객 관련 직무는 팀 지향적 조직시민행동과 팀 협력의 관계를 개인 수준에서 조절하였다. 이러한 연구 결과는 팀 지향적 조직시민행동을 조직 상황에 적용할 때 조직 내 수준(level)을 반영하는 이론화 노력이 필요하며, 구성원의 팀 지향적 조직시민행동의 동기를 높이기 위해 다양한 교육과 지원제도가 필요함을 제시하였다. 연구 결과를 바탕으로 시사점과 향후 연구 방향을 논의 하였다.

The concept of performance-based contracting (PBC) has received an increasing attention in both academic research and business practice over the last decade. Typically, in a PBC an industrial supplier is paid based on the outcome created with an investment good. This payment covers the actual usage as well as all related maintenance and repair efforts for the resource (Böhm, Backhaus, Eggert, & Cummins, 2016). Although the concept of PBC is not new, research on this topic is still on a preliminary level (Essig, Glas, Selviaridis & Roehrich 2016). As the customer orientation in service-oriented sales processes is crucial (Haas, Snehota, & Corsaro 2012; Terho, Haas, Eggert, & Ulaga 2012), our study explores customers’ requirements and motivational patterns within a PBC sales process. We report on data obtained in laddering interviews with 31 PBC-experienced customers in Europe from three industries (industrial air supply industry, gas supply industry, filling and packaging industry). Results from a means-end-chain analysis indicate that PBC customers have a higher sense of duty (e.g., by analyzing suppliers’ competence for operating a PBC), a distinct need for security (e.g., by requiring positive emotions for purchase decision), a comprehensive sense of responsibility (e.g., in terms of the long-term contractual obligation) and perfectionist values for purchase decisions (e.g., by striving for an optimal technical and contractual PBC design). Since these aspects address the PBC sales process, our study contributes by generating empirical evidences for value-based selling techniques and by generating management implications for a customer-oriented selling of PBC.

Acknowledging the developments in the constructive employee deviance stream (Leo and Russell-Bennett, 2014), which denote that although employees may depart from workgroup hypernorms, their behaviour might still have pro-customer intentions (Vadera, Pratt and Mishra, 2013), this research illuminates deviant employee–customer encounters and grows the ongoing discussion on the impact of employee customer-oriented deviance on various customer outcomes. Customer-oriented deviance (COD) is a form of pro-social behaviour which occurs when the employee deviates from organizational norms, defying organizational protocol and higher authority for the sake of the customer who is the main beneficiary of this behaviour. Indeed, scarce evidence explores how customer-oriented deviance during the service encounter affects customers’ psychological state as well as whether the psychological consequences deriving from employee deviance which actually render the customer more prone to reciprocally respond the employee or the organization with some kind of citizenship behaviour (Hochstein, Bonne and Clark, 2015), this study addresses the impact of three types of customer-oriented deviance on post-deviant customer evaluations. To address these issues, an experimental design with a 3x2 between-subjects design is adopted. The independent variables manipulated are three types of COD and also whether the customer participates (or not) to the solution of the problem that (s)he is currently facing. In particular, the impact of three types of customer-oriented deviance (i.e. deviant service adaptation, service communication and use of resources) on customer’s distributive, interactional and procedural justice (cognitive outcomes) and customer’s emotional state (affective outcome) is considered. This study advances current knowledge in three ways. First, it proposes that post-deviant customer consequences are both cognition- and emotion-driven, deepening the empirical understanding of the role of customer’s perceived justice and emotional state as a result of COD. Results also uncover the importance of customer participation during COD and its corresponding impact on customer encounter outcomes. The social exchange and the equity theory are extended and set as the theoretical link between customer-oriented deviance and customer’s response to the organization and the employee.

Among recent management innovation activities of companies, one of the most important competitive advantage through customer satisfaction, and to which members of the organization's service orientation is essential. The company's service orientation is closely related to the organization's culture. In this study, the organization's service-oriented culture, the internal service quality, job satisfaction and organizational commitment, and ultimately affects the employee's influence on customer orientation will look at that. Results and implications of this study can be summarized as follows. the internal service quality among the factors tangibles, assurance, empathy, job satisfaction showed a significant influence on the type of empathy and emotional commitment castle had a significant impact on. With these results, relationships with colleagues within the organization, such as work environment and job satisfaction and emotional commitment, the atmosphere is very important to know that you can affect. Therefore, the members of the company to increase job satisfaction and organizational commitment, corporate culture, business as well as collaboration with colleagues to share the emotional atmosphere of sympathy for the business environment will get improved.

Logistics company strives for satisfaction of customer service. the internal clients of corporation, the engineers of driver enhance their thinking about customer orientation by education of important about customer services. the study reached the conclusion that result which analyzed the important fact of enhancing customer orientation strategy by AHP show an ability of dealing with customer improves customer orientation strategy. because the desire of customer is various, it is difficult to have standard of dealing thought, the program of improvement of dealing ability should be developed and trained to improve customer orientation.

In manufacturing companies, engineering information is a central data which defines a product to be produced. This is changed by various factors such as changes of product configuration, changes of drawings information of a technology's licensor, etc, and

  Nowadays, customer-oriented manufacturing enterprises such as airplane, ship, ship engine, etc are knowledge-intensive and higher added value industries. In these companies, to quickly respond customer’s order, a quotation management is a very important

본 연구에서는 생활용품이면서 의복과 함께 생활필수품인 신발을 대상으로 감성만족도 요소의 추출과 분류체계를 개발하였다. 제화류의 감성만족도 요소는 감각성(sense), 적합성(fitness), 묘사성(description), 평가성(evaluation), 선호성(attitude)의 5개 그룹으로 구성되었으며, 각 그룹에는 형태감, 볼륨감 등 29개 요소가 포함되었다. 이들 중에서 일반 제화의 평가에 적합한 요소들로 형태감, 볼륨감, 균형감, 색감, 인체적합성, 안락성, 안정성, 여유성, 개념적 이미지, 품위감, 고급감, 조화감, 견고성, 주목성, 간편성, 신뢰성, 선호도, 수용도, 만족성, 매력성 등 20개의 요소들을 선택하여 이들에 대한 평가양식을 개발하였다. 본 연구에서 제시한 감성만족도 요소는 제화류의 고객만족도 평가 모델링에서 종속변수로 활용될 수 있다.

Nowadays, Internet-based businesses is activated in various organizations. In most of distribution and manufacturing companies, the main current of internet businesses is on-line sales (B2C: Business-to-Customer) centering around internet shopping. Most of theses businesses applied contents-centered and customer-oriented methodology for implementing internet business system(IBS). Also, recently, Introduction of Internet-based VAN(Value Added Network) systems and e-Procurement systems of purchase fields between parent companies and suppliers are proliferated for an efficiency of business and a reduction of transaction cost. These systems used methods of re-constructing the existing legacy systems into Internet-based systems. This paper proposes a customer-oriented and process-based methodology that simultaneously considers customer requirements and business processes of operational systems in order to implement an Internet business system. To demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed methodology, we applied and implemented an Internet business system for sales of A/S (After Service) spare parts and services on the object of the "H" company of manufacturing ship engines, which is a make-to-order corporation. As a result, This paper showed an effective applicability of Internet-based e-business on A/S business processes in order to improve a service quality for customer satisfaction in manufacturing companies.