New development: A ‘journey of personal and professional emotions'—emergency ambulance professionals during Covid-19

IMPACTThis article explores the consequences of emotional labour on UK NHS ambulance staff and their response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It highlights the challenges faced by ambulance crews while dealing with their emotional labour within the context of organizational settings. Research findings also explain the importance of emergency responders' psychosocial wellbeing. The article has clear relevance as to how frontline staff manage their emotional labour in other emergency service settings, such as the police and fire and rescue services.Alternate :Managing emotions are essential aspect of many jobs, and frontline healthcare workers have to manage and control their emotions while caring for critically ill patients and working in an emotionally-charged dynamic environment;this was particularly the case during Covid-19. Ambulance workers are an important group in this respect but they are currently under-researched. Evidence behind this article comes from data collected from an NHS ambulance trust in England. One of the key contributions of this article is to highlight how frontline ambulance professionals manage their emotional labour while working within the stipulations of organizational constraints.

The influence of organizational factors on the acceptance of online teaching among college faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study in mainland China.

The outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) promoted online teaching on an unprecedented scale, raising researchers' attention to the importance of faculty's acceptance of this urgent teaching shift. This study aimed to explore the influence of organizational factors on faculty's acceptance of online teaching in terms of behavioral intention and perceived usefulness. A multilevel structural equation model was employed to analyze data on 209,058 faculty in 858 higher education institutions based on a nationwide survey conducted in mainland China. The results showed that three key organizational factors, namely strategic planning, leadership, and teaching quality monitoring, impacted faculty's acceptance of online teaching, although in different ways. Strategic planning had a direct impact on perceived usefulness, while leadership had a direct impact on behavioral intentions, and teaching quality monitoring had a direct impact on both perceived usefulness and behavioral intentions. In addition, an indirect effect was found between strategic planning and faculty's behavioral intentions through the mediation of the perceived usefulness of online teaching. The findings of this study have practical implications for college administrators and policymakers, which should effectively implement and promote online teaching and learning, and consider key organizational factors to increase faculty acceptance.

ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS AND ETHICAL DECISION-MAKING PROCESS DURING THE COVID-19

Aim. The researcher's goal is to investigate how organizational characteristics affect the process of making ethical decisions. Methods. The study's focus was on certified accountants working in Kosovo during the Covid19 era. The task is qualitative in nature;SPPS is used to process the data after Excel has done so. This study used descriptive and regression analysis. Results. The study demonstrated that organizational criteria like size, industry, the presence of an ethics code, and ethical climate have an impact on how decisions are made. To identify organizational elements and, as a result, improve the ethical decision-making process, the paper's findings may have policy implications. Conclusions. This study provided insight into how to increase the influence of organizational elements in ethical decision-making, particularly in the accounting field. A sound foundation for an ethical decision-making process that is sustainable is provided by the recommendations at the end of the paper. © 2023, Institute for Human Rehabilitation. All rights reserved.

INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS ON THE FORMATION OF MENTAL MALADAPTATION IN MEDICAL WORKERS DURING THE PANDEMIC OF A NEW CORONAVIRUS INFECTION COVID-19

The aim of the study is to analyze the modern foreign and domestic scientific literature devoted to the influence of pro-duction factors on the formation of mental maladaptation in medical workers, as well as possible methods of its prevention and curing. Materials and research methods. Scientific studies of negative psychological reactions and manifestations of mental disorders in medical workers of various profiles in the COVID-19 pandemic were analyzed. The search protocol included the use of various databases, including PubMed;Russian information and analytical portal in science, technology, medicine, and education — eLIBRARY.ru;open-access statistical reporting data;and official websites of scientific journals on the subjects under study. Study results and their analysis. The results of the study showed that most medical professionals experienced stress caused by organizational factors such as a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), fears of not being able to receive quality medical care if they were sent to work elsewhere, fears of rapidly changing context, lack of access to current information and communication, lack of special medications, shortage of ventilators and beds in intensive care units In the conditions of regular health care work, most of the professionals noted tension in the process of performing professional duties, exceeding their physical and mental capacities, which was one of the main reasons for anxiety, nervousness or stress at work. © Burnasyan FMBC FMBA.

Mental health of public safety personnel: Developing a model of operational, organizational, and personal factors in public safety organizations.

The work of public safety personnel (PSP) such as police officers, firefighters, correctional officers, and paramedics, as well as other PSP, makes them vulnerable to psychological injuries, which can have profound impacts on their families and the communities they serve. A multitude of complex operational, organizational, and personal factors contribute to the mental health of PSP; however, to date the approach of the research community has been largely to explore the impacts of these factors separately or within single PSP professions. To date, PSP employers have predominantly focused on addressing the personal aspects of PSP mental health through resiliency and stress management interventions. However, the increasing number of psychological injuries among PSPs and the compounding stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrate a need for a new approach to the study of PSP mental health. The following paper discusses the importance of adopting a broader conceptual approach to the study of PSP mental health and proposes a novel model that highlights the need to consider the combined impacts of operational, organizational, and personal factors on PSP mental health. The TRi-Operational-Organizational-Personal Factor Model (TROOP) depicts these key factors as three large pieces of a larger puzzle that is PSP mental health. The TROOP gives working language for public safety organizations, leaders, and researchers to broadly consider the mental health impacts of public safety work.

Infusing educational technologies in the heart of the university—A systematic literature review from an organisational perspective

Educational technologies have experienced unprecedented prominence on university agendas with many institutions motivated to keep the lessons learned from the COVID-19 sparked transition with regard to online teaching. In response to this renewed interest in ensuring the longevity of educational technologies in higher education, this systematic review analysed the various organisational factors—for example, leadership, infrastructure, strategy—considered essential in the literature for the successful implementation of educational technologies. Specifically, we reviewed 1614 papers published in five prominent educational technology journals in the last decade. From this sample, we identified 47 papers that discussed organisational factors. Drawing on these studies, we constructed an organisational framework, which outlines the different organisational factors, actors and processes involved in implementing educational technologies. The identified organisational factors are structured into three main categories: (1) Leadership and Strategy, (2) Infrastructure and Resources and (3) Recognition and Motivation. Our aim was to further the scholarly understanding of the organisational layer involved in digital change as well as provide concrete recommendations for practitioners. Practitioner notes What is already known about this topic Previous research has stressed the importance of taking organisational factors such as infrastructure, leadership, strategy and staff commitment into account when implementing educational technologies. However, review papers have failed to systematically organise these studies to create a comprehensive understanding of the organisational factors involved in implementing educational technologies and ensuring their longevity at an institution. There is currently a high level of interest in how educational technologies can be implemented in the higher education landscape, as many institutions are facing the question of what lessons they can learn from the crisis and how they can continue on their path of digitalisation. What this paper adds This review paper addresses a gap in our scholarly understanding of the organisational layers involved in the implementation of educational technologies in higher education institutions (HEIs). This paper provides a framework on organisational factors, which influence the implementation of educational technologies in HEIs. This review paper demonstrates that bottom-up and opinion leadership, support structures tailored to the need and time of faculty as well as recognition and incentives have the largest impact on a sustainable implementation of educational technologies in HEIs. Implications for practice and/or policy Universities should create structures that enable innovation and creativity by promoting bottom-up and opinion leadership as well as shared decision-making processes as they are important for the successful implementation of educational technologies in HEIs. Besides providing a reliable and suitable infrastructure, institutional support and resources in terms of technical advice and training tailored to specific needs, should be in place when planning the implementation of educational technologies in HEIs. The additional workload instructors face when implementing digital teaching should be recognised and incentivised as it strengthens instructor engagement which is crucial for the implementation of educational technologies in HEIs. © 2022 The Authors. British Journal of Educational Technology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Educational Research Association.

How Do Human Capital Empowerments Constitute the Organizational Performance?

Much research has proven the effect of human capital on the organizational performance;the present study demonstrates how this causal relationship take place in the reality. In other words, in this research, first, organizational factors that cause human capital to flourish and be empowered are identified, and then their effects on the factors that shape the performance of an organization are identified. Hence, the main objective of this study was to examine the impact of the organizational factors empowering human capital on the organizational performance enablers. To do so, a questionnaire is administrated and Linear regression analysis using SPSS 22.0 applied for data analysis. According to the results, human capital empowerment factors have a statistically significant impact on the performance enablers. Finding disclosed that an effective performance evaluation system and effective leadership, which empower human capital in the organization, have a positive significant effect on the organizational performance. The findings indicate that organizations with an effective performance appraisal system and effective leadership not only provide a platform in which human capital is identified and grown, but also improve the factors that shape the performance of an organization. This research contributes to the literature on human resources, human capital, organizational management, and ultimately organizational performance.

Workplace factors can predict the stress levels of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: First interim results of a multicenter follow-up study.

Background: Research is lacking on the long-term influence of workplace factors on the mental health of health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: We distributed two online surveys to health care workers between May and October 2020 (T1) and between February and April 2021 (T2). Perceived stress, coronavirus-related risks, and workplace factors were measured via self-report questionnaires at both time points. We conducted hierarchical linear regression to investigate the predictive factors for high stress. Results: A total of 2,110 participants from seven countries and 4,240 participants from nine countries were enrolled at T1 and T2, respectively. Among them, 612 participated in both surveys. We called this cohort T1 + T2. High stress was reported in 53.8 and 61.6% of participants at T1 and T2, respectively. In cohort T1 + T2, compared with the baseline, the level of stress rose significantly (6.0 ± 2.9 vs. 6.4 ± 3.1), as did health/safety in the workplace (3.9 ± 0.8 vs. 4.2 ± 0.7). Unfortunately, we did not detect any significant difference concerning support in the workplace. Among all factors at baseline, being older than 35 [ß (95% CI) = -0.92 (-1.45, -0.40)], support [-0.80 (-1.29, -0.32)], and health/safety in the workplace [-0.33 (-0.65, -0.01)] were independent protective factors, while a positive history of mental disorders [0.81 (0.26, 1.37)] and rejection in private life [0.86 (0.48, 1.25)] were risk factors for high stress at T2. Conclusion: To relieve the high stress of health care workers, organizational-level approaches should be implemented, especially measures designed to enhance support, health/safety in the workplace, and to reduce the rejection of the public.

The Role of e-Leadership on the Productivity of Virtual Work in Higher Education

COVID-19 pandemic may further decline productivity of the workforce in the future especially in higher education. This article aims to verify the significance of e-leadership as organizational factor, digital collaboration as job factor, and digital mastery as personal factor on the productivity of virtual work in higher education. Online survey and causal analysis were conducted for supporting this article. It's about 847 academic and non-academic staffs who were participating as the respondents. PLS based Structural Equation Modelling were utilized for structuring and calculating the collected data. The result of statistical analysis reveals that e-leadership affects positively and significantly but indirectly on the productivity of virtual work. Digital mastery and digital collaboration play moderating role in determining effect of e-leadership on work productivity. For maintaining and leveraging the productivity of employee in doing virtual work, the organization should direct leadership of academic managers as transformational leadership approach for developing digital mastery and encouraging digital collaboration. © 2021 IEEE.

Need of the Hour: Sustainable Business Models in Higher Education Sector in Post Covid Regime

Purpose: The onset of covid 19 has introduced a paradigm shift in the modus operandi of the organizations across the globe. The rapidity of transformation had adversely impacted the lives and livelihood of and continued its strain in covid saturated regime. The pandemic has upended the business in Higher Education Institutions too, diluted the employee engagement, brought a transition in the organizational factors and resultantly aggravated the all-pervasive sufferings of the academicians. While each of the educational segment faced its unique challenges, prominently the Higher Educational Institutions underwent tremendous learning revolution. In the light of unearthing the intensity of disruption among the academicians, the present study is taken up to critically analyse the need for new business models due to the transition in the organizational factors. For the convenience of the study only the Bangalore based Private Higher Educational Institutions are considered. Design/Methodology/Approach: A strategically constructed 5-point Likert scale questionnaire in Goggle form was designed to obtain and evaluate the responses from the academicians of the Private Higher Educational Institutions in Bangalore. The population consists of 819 Private Colleges catering to the needs of the discipline of Arts, Science, Management and Commerce. Stratified random sampling technique is considered to collect the responses from each of the every10 faculties in each single mentioned department. With continued follow ups, the sizeable sample reached up to 389, slightly higher than the calculated samplesize for known population. The analysis was made by using the statistical tool: Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test to check the sensitivity of transition in the organizational factors due to the pandemic. Findings: The chosen tool for the study does not demand the testing of the relation between the dependent and independent variables, hence no hypothesis being constructed. However, the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test showed that covid did make a statistically significant effect on the Organizational Factors, most predominantly the "Supportive of change" (Z=-14.821, p=0.000). 315 responses revealed the negative ranking which prompted a non-willingness of the organization to support the change in post covid scenario, 23 respondents on the contrary felt a negligible positive transition in the same organizational factors whereas the responses of the remaining 51 participants found to be neutral. The overall organizational effectiveness reported a diminishing trend in the post covid scenario. Research implications:The study is confined to Private Higher Educational Institutions in Bangalore. The study has used ranking test to identify the weightage of responses towards transition in organizational factors which invariably creates awareness among the academicians and the service providers too. In deep contrast with the pre covid scenario, the shift in organizational parameters would pave the way for future restructuring. The set of strategic suggestions provided in the present study could bring substantial change if implemented with care and caution. Originality/value: The originality of the study is checked through the available online plagiarism software and found to be within 10%. Paper type: Research paper

Business not as usual: Understanding the drivers of employees’ tacit knowledge sharing behavior in a teleworking environment

In recent years, companies have differentiated themselves from their competitors through their intellectual capital, an essential resource for survival. However, despite the growing number of studies in understanding the transformation and impacts on firms resulting from the pandemic, the literature is still scarce on understanding tacit knowledge sharing behavior during the lockdown period. This study contributes to the existing literature exploring the organizational and individual factors that influence employee knowledge-sharing behavior and, consequently, strengthen a firm’s intellectual capital while in teleworking mode. © 2022 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved.

COVID-19 exposure and mental wellbeing of European male employees

Background: The present research intends to identify the determinants of men???s mental wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic. The fear and uncertainty caused by this pandemic and its prolongation have caused a considerable rise in mental health disorders. In a very short time, much research has been conducted examining the main consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals??? mental health. Some studies pointed out that COVID-19 stressors significantly affect individuals, and some statistics suggest that the pandemic affects men and women differently. However, the literature on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on men???s mental health remains limited. This research attempted to fill these gaps in the literature by examining an essential research question about the determinants of men???s mental wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This research uses a dataset collected on Eurofound???s Living, Working, and COVID-19 survey, and the full sample consisted of 24,123 European citizens. The sample was split into two main groups: men (N = 3577) and women (N = 8744). This research uses linear regression methodology to investigate the mental wellbeing of male employees. The input method was applied to estimate two regression models, one for men and one for women. Results: Our results revealed that men???s exposure to COVID-19 infection deteriorates their mental wellbeing. Similarly, some organizational factors also determined men???s mental wellbeing, such as working under fixed employment contracts, feelings of doing useful work, and satisfaction with the quality of work. Finally, individual and attitudinal factors contributed to determining the mental wellbeing of male employees, optimism about the future, general health, positive feelings about themselves, and overall life satisfaction. Conclusion: This research deduces that men???s mental wellbeing is determined by factors that are different from those of women employees. In conclusion, this research deduces that men???s good mental wellbeing is determined differently from women employees. Specifically, we identified that exposure to COVID-19, employment contracts at the job, feelings of doing useful work, satisfaction with the quality of work, resilience, age, life satisfaction, general health, optimism about the future, and feeling positive about themselves are the key determinants of men???s health.

Factors affecting the adaptation of olive oil organizations to covid-19

The covid-19 pandemic has had catastrophic effects on the global economy. The olive oil sector, whose producers were already undergoing their own crisis, has also clearly been affected by this situation. Despite Spain's world leadership in olive oil production, the added value that this product can generate has not been maximized. Falling prices and supply saturation are the problems that have been most highlighted and to which covid-19 has added. Faced with such a situation, the digitalization of the olive mill has gone from being a recommendation to an essential factor in avoiding the paralysis of its activity. In this context, the objective of this study is to detect the organizational factors that have been associated with a better adaptation of the organizations to the current complex situation. To this end we have made use of the fuzzy sets Qualitative Comparative Analysis technique which makes it possible to contrast different variables in order to explain a result, overcoming the limitations of more traditional techniques. The results obtained reveal that the cooperative form, the degree of innovation, the training of the top managers and the flexibility and size of the organization are factors that contribute to a better adaptation of the olive mill to the situation caused by covid-19.Alternate :La pandemia de la covid-19 ha tenido unos efectos catastróficos en la economía global. El sector del aceite de oliva también se ha visto claramente afectado por esta situación, cuyos productores ya arrastraban su propia crisis. Pese al liderazgo mundial de España en producción de aceite de oliva, no se ha terminado de maximizar el valor añadido que puede generar este producto. La caída de los precios y la saturación de la oferta son los problemas más señalados, a los que se ha sumado la covid-19. Ante tal situación, la digitalización de la almazara ha pasado de ser una recomendación a un factor imprescindible para evitar la paralización de su actividad. En este contexto, el objetivo de este trabajo consiste en detectar los factores organizacionales que se han asociado a una mejor adaptación de las organizaciones a la compleja situación actual. Para ello, se ha hecho uso de la técnica fuzzy sets Qualitative Comparative Analysis, que permite contrastar distintas variables para explicar un resultado, superando las limitaciones de técnicas más tradicionales. Los resultados obtenidos revelan que la forma cooperativa, el grado de innovación, la formación del máximo responsable, la flexibilidad y el tamaño de la organización son factores que contribuyen a una mejor adaptación de la almazara a la situación provocada por la covid-19.

How Does the Assessment of Work Organization during the COVID-19 Pandemic Relate to Changes in the Well-Being of Health System Workers?

In the case of various emergencies, especially pandemics, healthcare workers are faced with disproportionate pressures. Organizational support plays a significant role in protecting the psychological and physical health of healthcare workers. This interdisciplinary research aims to determine how changes in the physical and psychological well-being of healthcare and pharmacy workers during the first wave of the COVID-19 lockdown are related to work organization factors that support safety and stability. A quantitative research strategy was applied in the research. Data from an electronic survey assessed the changes in the physical and psychological well-being of healthcare and pharmacy workers during the lockdown period and the organizational factors supporting safety and stability. The sample of the quantitative research consisted of 967 employees of healthcare institutions and pharmacies in Lithuania. This research broadens the concept of organizational factors and provides data on their interaction with the changes of employee well-being indicators in a pandemic situation. It was found that positive changes in the evaluation of physical as well as psychological well-being during the COVID-19 lockdown could be consistently predicted by all the analyzed safety and stability supporting organizational factors that were found to be associated with subjective physical well-being and psychological well-being even when adjusting for the effect of socio-demographic factors (gender, age, work field, and specialty). The identification and proper management of organizational factors was significant for the psychological and physical well-being of healthcare workers during the lockdown period. It was found that all estimates of safety and stability supporting organizational factors during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown were positively related and could act as protective factors to the subjective physical and psychological well-being of healthcare and pharmacy workers.

Short-term emotional impact of COVID-19 pandemic on Spaniard health workers.

BACKGROUND: The aims of this study were to evaluate the short-term impact of 2019-nCoV outbreak on the mental/psychological state of Spaniard health care workers (HCWs) and to explore the influencing factors, including organizational factors. METHODS: A web-based survey (Google forms questionnaire) spread via professional and scientific associations, professional WhatsApp and email lists, following a snowball technique was used. Data were collected from May 11th and May 31st, 2020 RESULTS: : A total of 1407 subjects were included in final analyses. 24.7% (348 out of 1407) of HCWs reported symptoms of acute stress (SARS-Q measurement) and 53.6% (754 out of 1407) reported symptoms related to poorer general health (GHQ-28 measurement). A higher risk of having an acute stress disorder was associated to being female, not having access to protective material, and several subjects´ perceived risks. Additionally, poorer overall general health (GHQ>24) was related to being female, working in a geographical area with a high incidence of infection, not being listened to by your co-workers, having a greater perception of stress at work and being able to transmit the infection to others. LIMITATIONS: We must consider a likely memory bias. CONCLUSION: The high prevalence of affective and general health symptoms among the HCWs and the critical influence of organizational issues and subjects´ perceived risk should lead health authorities to design future strategies to protect health professional force for facing a potential upcoming epidemiological crisis.