In this study, we examined optimal pricing strategies for "pay-per-time," "pay-pervolume," and "pay-per-both-time-and-volume" based leasing of data networks in a monopoly environment. Conventionally, network capacity distribution includes short-/long-term bandwidth and/or usage time leasing. When customers choose connectiontime-based pricing, their rational behavior is to fully utilize the bandwidth capacity within a fixed time period, which may cause the network to burst (or overload). Conversely, when customers choose volume-based strategies their rational behavior is to send only the minimum bytes necessary (even for time-fixed tasks for real time applications), causing the quality of the task to decrease, which in turn creates an opportunity cost for the provider. Choosing a pay-per time and volume hybridized pricing scheme allows customers to take advantage of both pricing strategies while lessening the disadvantages of each, because consumers generally have both time-and size-fixed tasks such as batch data transactions. One of the key contributions of this study is to show that pay-per both time and volume pricing is a viable and often preferable alternative to the offerings based on only time or volume, and that judicious use of such a pricing policy is profitable to the network provider.
One of the most common procedures in service transport is to adjust the service location information of the passengers or the bus stops. Service companies assign a staff to update service information. These staff prepare lists of passengers and give them to service drivers. In this study, a model is proposed to facilitate the process of updating the service. With the smartphone application, a platform has been prepared in which passengers can automatically update their service information by selecting one of the three closest stops offered to them before the service hour. After development and implementation, its user acceptance is tested and validated via the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model and structural equation modeling. The main purpose of this study is to determine the acceptance and use of the mobile passenger application by the passengers. In this context, the moderator effect of the frequency of mobile use of passengers, education levels, genders, and ages on the performance expectancy, effort expectancy, facilitating condition, behavioral intention, and use behavior of passenger mobile applications was examined. As a result of the research, it was found out that the frequency of mobile usage has a moderator effect on both the effect of facilitation conditions on the actual use and the effect of behavioral intention on actual use. And also, it appears that the education level has a moderator effect on the effect of facilitating conditions on the actual use, and gender has a moderator effect on the effect of behavioral intention on the actual use. The proposed decision support system reduces the workload of service companies and facilitates the process, which is normally long and painful. Thus, customer satisfaction also increases. Hence, position and stop information between the service firm, passengers, and the drivers is easily and instantly shared.
Performans değerlendirmesi, çalışanların kuruluşa katkısını değerlendirmek için yapılmaktadır. Bireylerin örgütsel hedefler karşısındaki performans düzeyleri, örgütün amaçlarını yerine getirip getirmediğini belirleyen önemli faktörlerden biridir. Bu bağlamda, performans değerlendirmenin iki hedefi vardır. Birincisi, organizasyonun hedeflerini karşılaması için çalışanları teşvik etmektir. İkincisi ise hangi hedeflerin karşılanmadığını tespit etmektir. Daha sonra bu tespitler doğrultusunda gerekli becerilerin gelecekte elde edilebilmesi için eylem planları hazırlanır. Bu çalışmada eğitim sektöründe bilişim alanında hizmet veren personelin yetkinlik temelli performansları incelenmiştir. Performans incelemesi yapılırken öncelikle bilgi işlem personelinin sahip olması gereken ana yetkinlikler ve bu yetkinliklerle ilişkili alt yetkinlikler belirlenmiştir. Yapılan literatür araştırması ve uzman görüşmeleri neticesinde bilgi işlem personelin sahip olması gereken başlıca yetkinlikler; mesleki yetkinlik, iletişim becerileri ve kişilik özellikleri şeklinde belirlenmiştir. Belirlenen ölçütlerin ağılıkları, bilgi işlem daire başkanlığındaki üst ve orta düzey yöneticilerin değerlendirmeleri alınarak AHP grup karar verme yöntemi ile belirlenmiştir. Personellerin performansları, önem düzeyleri belirlenen bu ölçütler dikkate alınarak, yine AHP grup karar yöntemi ile personel ile birebir çalışan yöneticilerin görüşleri alınarak değerlendirilmiştir.
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