Personality traits and their relation with emotional intelligence and psychological ownership (PO) have to be considered in public-sector organizations, because employees who work in the public sector may have fewer mechanisms to increase their feelings of PO toward their organization. Thus, with regard to conditions of public organizations, more attention should be paid to structural and organ...

There is a growing use of business intelligence (BI) for better management decisions in different industries. However, empirical studies on BI are still scarce in academic research. This research investigates BI from an organizational agility perspective. Organizational agility is the ability to sense and respond to market opportunities and threats with speed. Drawing on systems theory and lite...

Emotional intelligence is becoming one of the most important individual competencies for organizations, which has been theoretically related to organizational performance and to individual variables like job satisfaction. However, some emotionally intelligent people seem to be satisfied with their jobs while others do not. This paper proposes that organizational learning capability plays a sign...

abstract background: regarding the importance of health care providers such as nurses who are always in stressful environments, it is imperative to better understand how they become more engaged in their work. the purpose of this paper is to focus on health care providers (nurses), and examine how the interaction between spiritual intelligence and psychological empowerment affect job engagement...

moral intelligence is one of the dimensions of intelligence that can provide a framework for the proper function of man, and be used as a predictor for people’s conduct. nurses’ performance is of great importance because of the moral and human nature of their profession, and their adherence to ethical principles improves the nursing care quality as well as organizational performance. therefore,...

This paper discusses challenges the US intelligence community faces in helping to counter bioterrorism—a real and emerging threat that has the potential to cause mass destruction in the United States. It includes background material on a number of issues related to the threat of bioterrorism to help the reader understand why the bioterrorism threat is real, why it may be growing, and why it cou...

While the detection, and prevention, of the September 11, 2001 plot would have been ideal, I argue that the more major intelligence failures occurred after the attacks of September 11. The erroneous intelligence concerning the WMD presence in Iraq permitted the Bush Administration to order the invasion of Iraq. Systematic underestimates of the budgetary costs and personnel requirements of the w...

Over the past two decades, the subject of emotional intelligence has received ample attention in management and leadership literature. The literature contains a plethora of information about emotional intelligence and its effect on transformational leadership. Much less is written on the relationship between charismatic leadership and emotional intelligence. This paper examines the relationship...

The present paper focuses on the modeling of cognitive processes in organizations. This issue is approached from the perspective of Organizational Cybernetics, the science of control and communication applied to the management of organizations. First, the Team Syntegrity Model is described, which provides a structural architecture for processes of planning, knowledge generation and innovation i...