ROLE OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN ENHANCING CONTEXTUAL PERFORMANCE

In the light of globalisation and the fast pace business environment, business organisations need to have a powerful source of competitive advantage. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of Emotional Intelligence in enhancing the contextual behaviours among the executives in an organisation. The study used a case study approach to examine the research questions. A total of 110 executives took part in this study. The GENOS Emotional Intelligence questionnaire has been used to record the responses. Based on the regression analysis, it was found that 2 dimensions of Emotional Intelligence had significant relationships with the dimensions of Organisational Citizenship Behaviour. Emotional Intelligence helps to “build” a robust workforce which is able to withstand the forces of the environment. Future studies could include mediating or moderating analysis of Organisational Citizenship.&nbsp

Neonatal Nurses\u27 Perceptions of Providing Palliative Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Although advances in neonatal medicine have greatly improved infant survival rates, there remains a significant number of infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit who will not survive. It is estimated that 50% of the 25,000 annual hospital pediatric deaths occur in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) (Conway-Oriel & Edlund, 2015). Despite widely supported guidelines endorsing neonatal palliative care (NPC), implementation has been sporadic and inconsistent (Kain & Wilkinson, 2013). Lack of palliative care protocols has been associated with negative impacts on infants, their families, and multidisciplinary team members. NICU nurses are uniquely positioned to influence end-of-life care experiences for infants and their families. Although previous research has explored nurses’ perceptions in specific NICU populations (Kain, 2008, Chen et al., 2013; Forouzi et al., 2017; Wright, Prasun, et al., 2011), the current status of PC in neonatal nursing practice throughout the United States, has not been examined

Comparing SSM/I Snow Depth Estimates to In-Situ and Interpolated Multi-Source Measurements

Spaceborne remote sensing data from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) have been used for several decades to estimate snow depth over large regions. The SSM/I snow depth accuracy is not well quantified in non-uniform terrain. In this study, SSM/I snow depth estimates for the Columbia River Basin and surroundings in the Western USA and Canada are compared with in-situ manual snow-course measurements and interpolated snow water equivalent from the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center. Snow depth is estimated for 25-km pixels from SSM/I brightness temperatures with the widely used Chang algorithm, adjusted for canopy cover. Interactive Data Language and ESRI ArcGIS are used to generate maps and time-series graphs, and to analyze the agreement between SSM/I snow depth and the other data sources. Measures of agreement are cross-tabulated with quantitative landscape descriptors, including: mean pixel elevation, elevation standard deviation (a measure of terrain complexity), and evergreen canopy cover

Interoperable Credentials Management for Wholesale Banking

A gap exists between wholesale-banking business practices and security best practices: wholesale banks operate within the boundaries of contract law, while security best practices often relies upon a benevolent trusted party outside the scope of straightforward contracts. While some business domains may be able to bridge this gap, the ultra-high-value transactions used in business-to-business banking substantially increase the size of the gap. The gap becomes most apparent when regarded from the perspective of interoperability. If a single user applies the same credential to sign high-value transactions at multiple banks, then the trusted-party model becomes overly cumbersome and conflicts with an acceptable concept of liability. This paper outlines the business complexities of wholesale banking and proposes a solution called Partner Key Management (PKM). PKM technology manages the credentials required to authenticate users and sign transactions. This paper presents PKM technology by describing an interoperable protocol, requisite data structures, and an interoperable XML definition. The paper uses formal methods to demonstrate a security equivalence between revocation options within PKM against the security offered by the traditional Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), a technology that features the benevolent trusted party