Congruence between Strategic Appraisal and Rating Procedure – A Case Study

 The case is positioned in the domain of building, conducting and communicating employee appraisal system. It discusses the situation of a HR manager preparing an appraisal form where the superiors/raters faced rating challenges. Such as definition of the corporate appraisal strategy which was developed to bring technical and potential growth in the company. The case would be appropriate for courses on performance management, organizational behavior and compensation promotional management

Pre and Post Changes of AI, IOT & Cloud Computing in Financial Services and Banking Sector During Pandemic COVID-19

When the COVID-19 Pandemic hit our country in February, where southern parts of India came into contact with such a novel virus whose treatment revealed, our prime minister sanctioned a curfew on 24th March 2020 and declared a nationalize lockdown. As a result, our country's economic and financial growth came into a deep crisis. Therefore, Artificial Intelligence, cloud computing, and the Internet of things came into the picture to overcome such a crisis. Artificial Intelligence and IOT help reshape the traditional system of banking and financial institutions into technological advancement. We all know about the essential clouds in today's economy as it reaps a high value of security and confidentiality. To get benefits, the financial industry must incorporate cloud computing. Banks must exercise caution when entering the cloud computing sector because cloud computing will provide many advantages to banking companies. Although the financial industry's the using cloud computing seems to be helpful to the company and market, the financial sector must address difficulties such as privacy preservation, security, regulatory compliance, standard interoperability, and service quality. This paper highlights the benefits of AI, IOT during COVID-19 and the data privacy of cloud computing in the Banking Sector

International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium report, data summary of 50 countries for 2010-2015: Device-associated module

•We report INICC device-associated module data of 50 countries from 2010-2015.•We collected prospective data from 861,284 patients in 703 ICUs for 3,506,562 days.•DA-HAI rates and bacterial resistance were higher in the INICC ICUs than in CDC-NHSN's.•Device utilization ratio in the INICC ICUs was similar to CDC-NHSN's. Background: We report the results of International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) surveillance study from January 2010-December 2015 in 703 intensive care units (ICUs) in Latin America, Europe, Eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, and Western Pacific. Methods: During the 6-year study period, using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Healthcare Safety Network (CDC-NHSN) definitions for device-associated health care-associated infection (DA-HAI), we collected prospective data from 861,284 patients hospitalized in INICC hospital ICUs for an aggregate of 3,506,562 days. Results: Although device use in INICC ICUs was similar to that reported from CDC-NHSN ICUs, DA-HAI rates were higher in the INICC ICUs: in the INICC medical-surgical ICUs, the pooled rate of central line-associated bloodstream infection, 4.1 per 1,000 central line-days, was nearly 5-fold higher than the 0.8 per 1,000 central line-days reported from comparable US ICUs, the overall rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia was also higher, 13.1 versus 0.9 per 1,000 ventilator-days, as was the rate of catheter-associated urinary tract infection, 5.07 versus 1.7 per 1,000 catheter-days. From blood cultures samples, frequencies of resistance of Pseudomonas isolates to amikacin (29.87% vs 10%) and to imipenem (44.3% vs 26.1%), and of Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates to ceftazidime (73.2% vs 28.8%) and to imipenem (43.27% vs 12.8%) were also higher in the INICC ICUs compared with CDC-NHSN ICUs. Conclusions: Although DA-HAIs in INICC ICU patients continue to be higher than the rates reported in CDC-NSHN ICUs representing the developed world, we have observed a significant trend toward the reduction of DA-HAI rates in INICC ICUs as shown in each international report. It is INICC's main goal to continue facilitating education, training, and basic and cost-effective tools and resources, such as standardized forms and an online platform, to tackle this problem effectively and systematically