Emotional Intelligence as Mediator Between Culture and Transformational Leadership in Jamaican Female Managers

While women continue to make progress in terms of graduate level education, discrepancies remain between women and men when it comes to opportunities for professional growth and development into executive leadership positions and playing a role in the boardroom. Guided by the theories of emotional intelligence (EI), transformational leadership (TL), and Hofstede\u27s cultural values, the purpose of this quantitative mediation analysis was to determine the mediating effect of EI on the relationship between cultural values and TL in Jamaican female managers. Data were collected from 38 Jamaican female managers who were working with varied public and private sector entities located in urban and rural areas. Participants completed the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test, Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire, and Cultural Values Scale via SurveyMonkey. No statistically significant mediated effects were found. Cultural values uncertainty subscale scores had statistically significant direct effects on TL. Through exploratory regressions, it was determined that experiential EI was positively predicted by the cultural values subscale scores of uncertainty avoidance, collectivism, and masculinity, and negatively predicted by age; strategic EI was negatively predicted by power distance and positively predicted by masculinity scores, and masculine cultural orientation was positively predicted by number of years as a supervisor, long term cultural value orientation, and power distance cultural value. The results could influence the development and implementation of suitable training interventions that may impact positively on the leadership skills of Jamaican female managers and ultimately realizing social change through family life

An Investigation of a Selected Number of Printed Materials Concerning the History, Development, and Progress of the Women\u27s Liberation as It Relates to the Field of Library Services in the United States

Most librarians are women, yet the library profession has devoted little attention to the unequal status of this society majority of its members. One of the professions that society expects women to end up in (if in any role other than that of wife and mother ) is librarianship. 1 Our profession is highly female but it is often administered by men. The all too obvious conclusion is that men are inherently better administrators, and that women cannot organize and lead because of their different mental, physical, or psychological makeup. 2 One of the factors which is associated with disadvantaged groups generally is low educational level. Women have been found to have less educational background than men. Thus women with the same amount of professional expereince and education as men are compensated at a lower rate, and the more experience they acquire, the greater their relative disadvantage. 3 One commonly used explanation for the low status of women is that women have divided loyalites between their professional goals and personal commitments. Women, it is claimed, leave their positions for marriage or family reasons. A somewhat similar problem, and one that may be less widespread but more difficult to overcome,is that of job mobility. Previous studies of academic librarians found that: the failure of women to be promoted to better paying positions or headships of libraries cannot be attributed to any general lack of personality qualifications among women as compared to men. 4 The general rule that it is harder for a woman to be appointed or promoted to a leadership position than it is for a man, certainly applies to library employment where men usually occupy the top positions and receive the greatest remuneration.5 It is the purpose of this study to investigate a selected number of printed materials concerning: (1) the history, and (2) the progress of the Women\u27s Liberation Movement as it relates to the field of library service in the United States. 1 Ellen Detlefsen and Patricia Schuman, Overdue-The Women\u27s Liberation Movement-I, Wilson Library Bulletin, XLIV (May 1970),962. 2 ibid. 3 A.R. Schiller, Widening the Gap, Library Journal, XCIV, (March 15,1969), 1098.4A.R. Schiller, Widening the Gap, Library Journal, XCIV,(March 15,1969),1098. 5J. Freedman, Liberated Librarian: A Look at the Second Sex in the Library Profession, Library Journal.XCV, (May 1,1970),1709

Exploration for volcanogenic sulphide mineralisation at Benglog, north Wales

Exploration for volcanogenic sulphide mineralisation around Benglog is one of three investigations designed to assess the metallogenic potential of the Ordovician Aran Volcanic Group. Detailed geological mapping in the Benglog area enabled an interpretation of the volcanic environment, critical to such an assessment, to be made. The eruptive rocks are acid and basic in composition; the acid rocks are mostly ash-flow tuffs derived from outside the area, whereas the basic rocks have a local derivation. They are all interbedded with dark grey or black silty mudstone and were probably erupted in a submarine environment. Contemporaneous dolerite sills were intruded into wet sediment. This environment was suitable for volcanogenic exhalative sulphide deposits to form and indications of a metallogenic horizon were found at the top of the Y Fron Formation in the form of abundant pyrite, minor pyrrhotite and minor base metal enrichment. Soil samples, analysed for copper, lead and zinc, were collected and geophysical surveys were carried out along eleven east-west trending traverse lines 300 m apart across the volcanic succession. Indications were found of minor vein mineralisation at dolerite intrusion margins and locally along faults. Very high chargeability and low resistivity anomalies over mudstones did not spatially coincide with geochemical anomalies in soil, but the secondary redistribution of metals in soils and variable thickness of overburden precluded confident interpretation of the source of many soil anomalies. Geochemical drainage data, in conjunction with rock analyses, show strong barium enrichment in mudstones which could be volcanogenic in origin but related to two separate eruptive episodes. The findings of the survey were inconclusive. An environment suitable for the formation of volcanogenic exhalative sulphide deposits was established, but the geochemical and geophysical surveys located only minor vein mineralisation and tenuous indications of other styles of mineralisation. Recommendations are made for further work

FARM COMMODITY PAYMENT LIMITS: WHAT IMPACT WILL THEY HAVE ON THE ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF SOUTHEASTERN AGRICULTURE?

Agricultural and Food Policy,

Dataset on Psychosocial Risk Factors in Cases of Fatal and Near-Fatal Physical Child Abuse

This article presents the psychosocial risk factors identified in the cases of 20 children less than four years of age who were victims of fatal or near-fatal physical abuse during a 12 month period in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. These data are related to the article “History, injury, and psychosocial risk factor commonalities among cases of fatal and near-fatal physical child abuse” (Pierce et al., 2017) [1]

Model Development for Bayesian Risk Assessment and Management of Supply Chains Impacted by COVID-19 and Other Converging Threats

COVID-19 has generated disruptions on supply chains across the world with impacts reflected in shortage, or delay of supplies, accompanied by strong shifts of demand for several economic sectors. Under such a disruption, the challenge is to address the social, environmental, and economic impacts on U.S. Supply Chain infrastructure, and identify critical nodes and processes in order to protect and restore the supply chains for an uninterrupted flow of supplies and materials critical to Homeland Security

Reducing touching eyes, nose and mouth (‘T-zone’) to reduce the spread of infectious disease: A prospective study of motivational, volitional and non-reflective predictors

BACKGROUND: The route into the body for many pathogens is through the eyes, nose and mouth (i.e., the 'T-zone') via inhalation or fomite-based transfer during face touching. It is important to understand factors that are associated with touching the T-zone to inform preventive strategies. PURPOSE: To identify theory-informed predictors of intention to reduce facial 'T-zone' touching and self-reported 'T-zone' touching. METHODS: We conducted a nationally representative prospective questionnaire study of Canadians. Respondents were randomized to answer questions about touching their eyes, nose, or mouth with a questionnaire assessing 11 factors from an augmented Health Action Process Approach at baseline: intention, outcome expectancies, risk perception, individual severity, self-efficacy, action planning, coping planning, social support, automaticity, goal facilitation and stability of context. At 2-week follow-up, we assessed HAPA-based indicators of self-regulatory activities (awareness of standards, effort, self-monitoring) and self-reported behaviour (primary dependent variable). RESULTS: Of 656 Canadian adults recruited, 569 responded to follow-up (87% response rate). Across all areas of the 'T-zone', outcome expectancy was the strongest predictor of intention to reduce facial 'T-zone' touching, while self-efficacy was a significant predictor for only the eyes and mouth. Automaticity was the strongest predictor of behaviour at the 2-week follow-up. No sociodemographic or psychological factors predicted behaviour, with the exception of self-efficacy, which negatively predicted eye touching. CONCLUSION: Findings suggest that focusing on reflective processes may increase intention to reduce 'T-zone' touching, while reducing actual 'T-zone' touching may require strategies that address the automatic nature of this behaviour

Future Supply of Medical Radioisotopes for the UK Report 2014

The UK has no research nuclear reactors and relies on the importation of 99Mo and other medical radioisotopes (e.g. Iodine-131) from overseas (excluding PET radioisotopes). The UK is therefore vulnerable not only to global shortages, but to problems with shipping and importation of the products. In this context Professor Erika Denton UK national Clinical Director for Diagnostics requested that the British Nuclear Medicine Society lead a working group with stakeholders including representatives from the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to prepare a report. The group had a first meeting on 10 April 2013 followed by a working group meeting with presentations on 9th September 2013 where the scope of the work required to produce a report was agreed. The objectives of the report are: to describe the status of the use of medical radioisotopes in the UK; to anticipate the potential impact of shortages for the UK; to assess potential alternative avenues of medical radioisotope production for the UK market; and to explore ways of mitigating the impact of medical radioisotopes on patient care pathways. The report incorporates details of a visit to the Cyclotron Facilities at Edmonton, Alberta and at TRIUMF, Vancouver BC in Canada by members of the report team.Comment: 121 page