Task Challenge and Employee Performance: A Moderated Mediation Model of Resilience and Digitalization.

Lately, organizations are giving attention to enhancing employee resilience due to turbulent economic times caused by lockdowns in the last couple of years. This explanatory research proposes and tests the mediating role of employee resilience to link task challenge and employee performance during the COVID-19 pandemic in government schools of Oman using the broaden-and-build theory. An explanatory research design was used for this empirical study. An Arabic-translated questionnaire version was designed to collect primary data online during the lockdown using simple random sampling. We used the Preacher and Hayes macro to analyze moderated mediation using cross-sectional data and analyzed 441 responses. The findings confirm the mediation roles of employee resilience and moderating roles of digitalization during unusual circumstances. The study has implications for the school administrators, Omani policymakers and schooling staff of the Middle Eastern educational industry.

Optimizing Health Communication Noticeability with Visual Design and Humor: An Applied Approach for COVID-19 Public Messaging.

Official public health communications are typically characterized by generic and staid graphic representation. However, situations requiring sustained public attention (such as the COVID-19 pandemic) would benefit from context-rich, referential messaging which actively incorporates visual design and emotion in its composition. This paper documents the author's application of this philosophy through a graphic poster series framing advisory information within creative, visually-engaging parameters. Summarizing the process of conceptualization, development and reception, it discusses the project's dual objectives - enhancing noticeability through creative visual design, and mitigating pandemic-related negativity with humor. Finally, it situates the project's postulations within the context of Health Communication discourse.

Commemorating exceptional valour: recognising the brave who tamed a pandemic.

COVID-19's ongoing, protracted visitation has prevented due acknowledgement of efforts to control it, particularly those of the medical workers who volunteered to serve on the frontlines, disregarding uncertainty and personal risk, in the early days when the consequences of exposure were unknown. This artwork seeks to memorialise the diligence, selflessness, and professional commitment of the medical community in a time of extraordinary difficulty. Referencing historical patterns of iconography, this graphic imagery proposes a modernised representation of bravery by interweaving narratives of equality, inclusivity, humour and optimism, to recognise the unnamed many who helped make the world a safer place.