Occupational Health Science in the Time of COVID-19: Now more than Ever

Sinclair, Robert R.; Allen, Tammy D.; Barber, Lacie; Bergman, Mindy E.; Britt, Thomas W.; Butler, Adam; Ford, Michael T.; Hammer, Leslie B.; Kath, Lisa M.; Probst, Tahira M.; Yuan, Zhenyu

doi:10.1007/s41542-020-00064-3

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“…Moreover, individuals are dependent upon the media for information and sense-making during times of crisis and uncertainty (media system dependency theory; Ball-Rokeach & DeFleur, 1976) and that such dependency may increase the exposure to sensationalized media that causes mass anxiety via vicarious traumatization (Liu & Liu, 2020). At a micro-level, although the degree of disruption may vary across people, some suggest that there is not a single element of life that has not been disrupted in some way by this unexpected event (Sinclair et al, 2020). The lack of a clear end date may only serve to make people more attuned to the particular threats posed by the pandemic (see e.g., Dieterich, Endrass, & Kathmann's, 2016 work suggesting that people pay attention to the uncertain), thus increasing the likelihood that such perceptions will impact important behaviors.…”

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The Conflicting Impact of COVID-19’s Health and Economic Crises on Helping

Shoss

Horan

DiStaso

et al. 2020

Group & Organization Management

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Helping behaviors are considered critical for business and societal recovery in light of economic crises and natural disasters, including the COVID-19 pandemic that has both economic and health disaster elements. However, because the current COVID-19 pandemic has both of these elements, it is unclear how helping may be impacted. Economic crisis research suggests that such events are associated with less helping, whereas disaster research suggests that such events are associated with greater helping. We pair the event system theory (Morgeson, F. P., Mitchell, T. R., & Liu, D. (2015). Event system theory: An event-oriented approach to the organizational sciences. Academy of Management Review, 40(4), 515-537) with these two logics (economic downturn and disaster) to suggest that health and economic threats within the COVID-19 pandemic operate with potentially opposing forces on helping-related outcomes. To test these ideas at a macro-level, we examined internet search volume for recession, COVID-19, and interest in helping. At a micro-level, we examined the relationships between work- hour insecurity and perceived job-related COVID-19 risk—two salient COVID-19-related economic and health threats—and helping customers and coworkers. Consistent with economic crisis logic, macro-level concern about recession was negatively associated with interest in helping. Moreover, at the individual level, work-hour insecurity negatively predicted helping coworkers. Consistent with disaster logic, at the individual level, perceived job-related COVID-19 threat was positively associated with helping coworkers and negatively associated with helping customers. These findings suggest that the specific feature of the COVID-19 event system (economic versus health) and the target (organizational insiders versus outsiders) matter for shaping helping behavior. These findings have implications for helping during crises that involve economic and/or disaster elements.

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The Conflicting Impact of COVID-19’s Health and Economic Crises on Helping

Shoss

Horan

DiStaso

et al. 2020

Group & Organization Management

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“…Nas últimas décadas, a evolução nos contextos de trabalho está associada a novas realidades resultantes de alterações em fatores demográficos e novas tecnologias (1) . Contudo, um dos desafios mais recentes está relacionado com o aparecimento de uma nova estirpe de coronavírus, o Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavírus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), responsável pela doença COVID-19 (2) .…”

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“…O reconhecimento do papel vital dos enfermeiros no exercício profissional (6) , por estarem na linha da frente da COVID-19 provocou, também, a estes profissionais, profundas e rápidas mudanças (7) . Sendo estas, associadas a aspectos organizacionais, à interação trabalho-família, ao teletrabalho e a riscos acrescidos para os que exercem em contexto de emergência (2,8) .…”

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“…Alguns dos problemas já identificados em diferentes pesquisas nacionais e internacionais, decorrentes da COVID-19 em enfermeiros, associam-se ao aumento dos níveis de ansiedade, depressão e uso de álcool, estresse e estresse pós-traumático e à associação entre problemas físicos e de saúde mental (2,7) . Esta nova realidade tem suscitado preocupação crescente no contexto laboral, especialmente, em nível da saúde mental (2) .…”

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Perceptions and experiences of nurses about their performance in the COVID-19 pandemic

Borges¹,

Queirós²,

Vieira³

et al. 2021

Rev Rene

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Objective: to describe the perception and experiences of nurses about their performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: qualitative study with phenomenological approach. Fifteen nurses participated in the study, selected according to an intentional snowball type sample. The data were obtained through semi-structured interviews and the transcribed information was submitted to thematic-category content analysis. Results: from the analysis of the participants’ discourse, the following categories and subcategories emerged: lived experiences (negative states; work organization; team cohesion; challenges and norms and guidelines); adopted strategies (individual; team support; familiar and informative) and future expectations (return to normality; adaptation; personal and professional growth; nursing uncertainty and valorization). Conclusion: from the perceptions and experiences of the nurses of their performance in the COVID-19 Pandemic, the negative emotional states, strategies adopted of individual character and future expectations of return to normality are highlighted.

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“…Without knowing it, millions of employees' health and organizations' productivity are at great risk. Because, now the workforce has to deal not only with the traditional stressors of WFH, but also with the pandemic, which might be the most extreme global stressor of our generation [2]. After shortly experiencing WFH during COVID-19, many big tech firms including Facebook and Twitter announced that they are transitioning into being "remote-first" [3].…”

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Exploring the Impact of Mandatory Remote Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Oz¹,

Crooks²

2020

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During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people had to work from home. We examine the ways in which COVID-19 affect organizational communication by analyzing five months of calendar and messaging metadata from a technology company. We found that: (i) cross-level communication increased more than that of same-level, (ii) while within-team messaging increased considerably, meetings stayed the same, (iii) off-hours messaging became much more frequent, and that this effect was stronger for women; (iv) employees respond to non-managers faster than managers; finally, (v) the number of short meetings increased while long meetings decreased. These findings contribute to theories on organizational communication, remote work, management, and flexibility stigma. Besides, this study exemplifies a strategy to measure organizational health using an objective (not self-report based) method. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study using workplace communication metadata to examine the heterogeneous effects of mandatory remote work.

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Occupational Health Science in the Time of COVID-19: Now more than Ever

Cited by 210 publications

References 76 publications

The Conflicting Impact of COVID-19’s Health and Economic Crises on Helping

The Conflicting Impact of COVID-19’s Health and Economic Crises on Helping

Perceptions and experiences of nurses about their performance in the COVID-19 pandemic

Exploring the Impact of Mandatory Remote Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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