International Journal of Management and Business Studies

International Journal of Management and Business Studies ISSN 2167-0439 Vol. 8 (11), pp. 001-007, November, 2018. © International Scholars Journals

Full Length Research Paper

Applying DEA and Taguchi methods in plant selection and optimal layout to increase commerce management environment quality

Hsi-Chin Chen¹, Shou-Yiing Hsu², Tsu-Liang Chang¹*, and Shiang-Li Yang³

¹Department of Horticulture, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

²Department of Information Management, National Defense University, Taipei, Taiwan.

³Department of Industrial Engineering, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan.

Accepted 14 August, 2018

Abstract

Studies have reported that workers of today’s businesses spend 80 - 90% of the time everyday in confined working environment. In such environment the air pollution may be 10 times worse than that outdoors, with various organic compounds polluting the air, leading to increasingly compromised health in workers and work efficiency, which decrease the commerce management efficiency and marketplace competitiveness. Many studies testified that plants disposed in commerce management environment are effective in cleansing the air and help release pressure off business workers. Hence, the present research applies Data Envelopment Analysis, DEA, to the selection of indoor plants that can decrease air pollution, mitigate anxiety and increase work efficiency, also identifies the combination of plant dispositions with optimal parameter design by Taguchi method. Whereby, this paper proposes concrete recommendations as reference for enterprises to create a comfortable, elegant, refreshing and healthy commerce management environment, while building a measuring model to further enhance the management efficiency and marketplace competitiveness for enterprises.

Key words: Commerce management environment, data envelopment analysis, super-efficiency, Taguchi method, plant selection.