Nowadays, corporations have to consistently advance the value of human assets in their own organizations for maintaining their competitiveness. To achieve this goal, the Human Resource (HR) Dept. plays a decisive role in the aspects of selection, training, employment, and retaining of human resource in the organization. How to improve the efficiency of the HR Dept. and enhance its status in the organizations has become the top agenda to enterprises. The development of Information Technology (IT) transforms the role of the HR Dept. in the organization. It enables HR to be a real strategic partner of corporations through the process of Organization Development. A Human Resource Information System (HRIS) based on the network technology will change the working environment of HR and further lead the transformation of the functions and roles of the HR Dept. Through conducting interviews with 9 companies, this research tries to answer the question, that is, what is the impact to the effectiveness of Human Resource Management when a HRIS is leaded in. It used literature research to analyze the characteristics of Human Resource Management (HRM) and HRIS and sorted out the possible impacts. It also used case study to sharpen the insight by sampling 9 companies which had used HRIS, including foreign and local ones. By doing the work, it drew a conclusion of the impact brought by HRIS and provided a direction of HRIS vendors. The study found that the factors of successfully leading HRIS into a company include the integration with original data, combination with the existing Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERPS), the compatibility of the existing HRIS, HR people¡¦s inability of maintaining HRIS, the suitability of HRIS for company¡¦s specific needs, and the support from high-level management. Leading in a HRIS could benefit the company from decreasing the inconvenience of human operations and increasing the quality of HR¡¦s services. The impacts on the effectiveness of HRM can be seen as the indexes which have positive reaction to HRIS: 1. Reward Management: HRIS provides fast calculation of payment and less human operations. Its tracing function in Payment Module and integration with ERPS help data exchange between HRIS and ERPS. 2. Training Development: HRIS keeps thorough training records of employees. It also can display the average training hours per person, training cost, training results, and etc. 3. Appraisal Management: The whole appraisal process can be done through HRIS, even crossing areas. 4. HR Strategy and Planning: Since HRIS is able to provide more precise data analysis, the quality of decision making of high-level management is enhanced with a great progress. 5. Team Management: Through humanity design of HRIS, more participation from employees is involved. Management spreading in different places still can use HRIS as a platform to exchange HR related information.

In recent years, due to the opening and development of political economy, the trend of global operations and especially the manage modes of pursuing performance which are used by trader of Taiwan transnational enterprises in china that cause the demands of integration and control enterprise's resources, enterprise¡¦s procedures and information systems are growing day by day. On the other hand, it is using global thinking tactics that adopt. Before Taiwanese enterprise head toward the ways of transnational management and organizing, they not only ought to understand all the resources and operation conditions covered all domestic and international enterprises, but also need to combine all of them. In addition, they have to integrate upper and lower supplier, and make them become the complete supply chain mode as well. Furthermore, Taiwanese enterprise has to faces the global competition. Therefore rapidly response to the market and customer needed, smoothly communicate with upper and lower suppliers are indeed requirements. Hence, enterprises need Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to achieve this ideal goal. This case study using the passive component industry company to be the example, we use different methods such as deep interview, actually observe, collect the documents, and file information and so on to research the selected object. We also do the research by content analysis approach the doing amount of themes on case study. Finally, using the conclusion of this case study to analyze inter dynamic relations between the task and technology from the staffs in different branch and making it as starting point. And then, depend on their mix right level and after the case study company led in the information system to compare the influence factor of the job performance and its characteristics of staff. The goals of this research are as follows: 1.A Research on the theory of task technology fit to implement the ERP system of Taiwanese enterprises in Taiwan and China. 2.Using the content analysis method to compare enterprise staffs who come from different geographical areas and cultural environment, and research the relationships between the Task Technology Fit¡Bpersonal character¡Binformation System using and job performance.

In this paper, the heuristic rules are proposed to derive the rephasing strategy of laterals and distribution transformers to improve the three phase unbalance of distribution systems. The distribution feeder network has been obtained by retrieving the attribute data of distribution components from the database of outage management system (OMS) in Taipower. The topology process and node reduction have also been executed to identify the network configuration and to prepare the input data for load flow analysis. With the monthly energy consumption of customers served by each transformer, which has been retrieved from the Customer Information System (CIS), the hourly loading of each distribution transformer can be derived. By performing the three phase load flow analysis, the three phase currents and neutral current of each primary trunk line section and each lateral can be calculated. The heuristic rule is employed to determine the phase adjustment strategy laterals and distribution transformers for rephasing to achieve three phase balancing. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology for three phase balancing, two practical distribution feeders in Taipower Fengshan District are selected for simulation. After rephasing the distribution transformers and laterals proposed by this paper, the three phase currents and netural of the test feeders have been collected. By companing to the neutral current before rephasing, it is found that the neutral current of test feeders have been reduced significantly and there phase balancing has been obtained by executing the proposed strategy derived using the heuristic rule.

Problems and issues at project level have been the main concern of the construction management studies and construction professionals. Consequently, the long-term strategic issues at corporate level remained uncovered in construction companies. The complex and unique characteristics of the industrial context of construction also limited the adoption of strategic management concepts by the companies. Recently, however, changing business environment, increasing competition in construction arena and higher client expectations have been the drivers for a shift in perception of strategic thinking experienced by construction executives. It is realized that setting long-term strategies is the roadmap towards gaining sustainable competitive advantage by the firm. The focus on strategic management raised the question about the strategic information sources for construction industry. Unless the required information is provided to the professionals as an input, decisions of high quality are unattainable outputs. This indispensable need for information increased the awareness of the companies about information technology and consequently strategic information systems which have great significance in shaping the competitive strategy of the organization. Although the significance of strategic thinking and information systems are realized by construction companies, it is still a complex task to design a strategic information system since the information needed to make the critical strategic decisions are widely spread and lost among the other data related to daily activities. The main objective of this thesis is to develop a generic IT-supported strategic management tool integrating the scattered information which can aid the decision making process of construction executives. Strategic fields within the context of construction industry are extracted from previous researches and discussed by experts in order to reach the right information sources which are to be stored in a database and accessed by the users through interfaces. The applicability of the developed strategic information system is tested by a Turkish construction company on real construction projects. Finally, the benefits, shortcomings and potential future developments for the tool are discussed by referring to the case study.

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With the performance enhancement of personal computers and the popularity of Microsoft Windowing Geographic Information System (GIS), it is becoming more viable in performing the distribution automated mapping and facility management (AM/FM). In this thesis, the relative structure of the graphic and attribute data of the distribution system with four feeders (LB33, LB34, LB35 and LB38) of the Taiwan Power Company (TPC) were built according to the true geography, referring to the street background. The related applications of the GIS included Distribution Information System (DIS) and Feeder Management Decision Support (FMDS) system by using MS Visual Basic object oriented programming. The proposed DIS links graphic objects and facility attribute data through the DDE connect and WinGIS Software, and provides a user-friendly Man-Machine Interface to manage the distribution database. As for FMDS, it is complicated to operate with colossal system information of the distribution systems. To enhance the operational efficiency and reduce cost, a fast and effective Feeder Management Decision Support is critical. With a user-friendly graphical user interface provided by mapping, effective database interface and related distribution system management algorithms, it is capable of providing the decision support, so a good decision can be made both normal and emergency conditions: 1. Decision support under the normal operation The decision system can reduce the line loss and maintain bus voltages with load transferal through feeder reconfiguration strategy. 2. Decision support under the emergency operation With fuzzy reasoning algorithm, security analysis will examine network security and an optimal switching strategy can solve the load recovery problem fast and effectively.

Abstract Knowledge Management System (KMS) has been receiving considerable attention in this decade and information technology (IT) is emphasized in KMS literature. Organizational members¡¦ interpretation toward IT, however, may strongly influence the results of IT introduction and implementation. This research perceives that this perspective is seldom explored in KMS literature thus investigates a Taiwanese IC testing company to study how its members¡¦ interpretations toward a KMS technology would cause the resistance. This research adopts Orlikowski & Gash¡¦s technological frame as a theoretical background to conduct the interpretive research. Related data collecting was mainly through unstructured interview(s). The result shows that there have been three different categories of interpretation (MIS manager, board masters, general users and system developers) toward the KMS technology. This research argues that the difference of interpretation among the three produced an undiscussable conflict and hence the consequent behavior marked down the usage of KMS. This research also attempts to find out how their interpretations were formed based on data available. This research also holds that though technological frame can reveal what one¡¦s interpretations are, it cannot tell us how they are formed.

This research focuses on the discussion of how network education helps to improve marine environment. In recent years, due to the serious pollution of the environment of the sea near Taiwan, the development of education of marine environment becomes necessary. The popularity of Internet not only establishes the information system but also leads us into a new digital era of knowledge economy. The most influential impact of Internet on education is the rapid development of cyber learning. This study employs the technology of multi-media, information sharing mechanism, information alnalysis, to establish information system in the education of marine environment. The major purpose of this study is to explore the relationship of the cyber technology of distance learning and the education of marine environment. The discussion includes curricula design for cyber learning, the system of knowledge exchange in marine environment, evaluation of learning performance and the suggestion for development of informative education system in marine environment.

In China Steel Corporation(CSC) of Taiwan, cash and local L/C were the only two methods for shipping payment for the past 30 years. This didn¡¦t change until year 2001 when a financial crisis in Taiwan resulted in inadquatecy of credit line within Taiwanese domestic steel companies. Many companies were faced with the credit problems for procuring materials. Thus, CSC decided to develop an e-factoring system with the state-of-art e-commerce technologies to help its customers overcoming the problems. In this research, a study was conducted to investiage this e-factoring system. The results indicated that CSC¡¦s e-factoring system not only created a new operating model but also became a successful strategic information system. IT was an innovation that was fully integrated with CSC¡¦s ERP system and work flows. It provided an convenient payment method to secure customers transaction in the business activity growing period and played the role of IT as to provide a secure and convenient trading platform. Finally, the e-factoring system was expanding under the protection of government laws. Thus, we conclude that CSC¡¦s e-factoring system was a success because its development began with a specific focus of resolving specific customers¡¦ problem but later transits into a successful strategic information system through its convenience and effeciency in supporting and retaining target customers.

Under the severe competition environment, it is very important for enterprise to create various goals and install process oriented information system to support it to reach business visions on business growth and expansion. For keeping the enterprise competitive advantage the business goals needed to be modified continuously under the change of competition environment. But the business information systems could still support the modified business goals? Information system could become less efficiency than before after business goals changed. The purpose of this study is to develop a business goals oriented information system evaluation approach to understand the degree of information system supporting the business goals. The approach first abstracts business goal and process oriented information system by business management methods and utilizes use case as the evaluation tool. Quantitative index and diagram as the result of evaluation explains the relationship between business goals and information systems. The results of evaluation could provide advantages on the information technology decision making for business leaders.