Offering flexible working opportunities to people with mental disabilities: The missing link between sustainable development goals and financial implications

Warmate, Zoe; Eldaly, Mohamed Khaled; Elamer, Ahmed A.

doi:10.1002/bse.2694

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“…Mental health is a top priority in the world, as the cost of mental illness is more than 4% of GDP (Izutsu et al, 2015 ). Its importance stemmed from the intersection of mental health issues with all SDGs, and the rights of people with mental health disorders are denoted mainly in SDG-4, SDG-8, SDG-10, and SDG-11(Warmate et al, 2021 ). Achdut and Refaeli ( 2020 ) in a study to assess the unemployment and psychological distresses during the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic concluded that the pandemic and the associated economic crisis posed significant threats to young people mental health.…”

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Analyzing and visualizing global research trends on COVID-19 linked to sustainable development goals

Zyoud

2022

Environ Dev Sustain

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This study is intended to afford a comprehensive overview of the implications of COVID-19 on progress toward achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) set out in the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda and the state of related research activities on COVID-19 linked to the SDGs. Bibliometric techniques and visual mapping are proposed as methodological tools to better approach the objectives of the present work. This includes: retrieving related publications from Scopus database, investigating the trends and growth trajectories of research works, and analyzing the scenarios post-COVID-19 either optimistic or pessimistic outlooks. The national and international contributions and collaboration toward this theme of research are further analyzed at countries, institutions, and sources levels. This analysis indicates that research works conducted on the impacts of COVID-19 on the achievement of the SDGs are still in the immaturity level. The global research productivity on this topic was just 160 documents (0.19% of total global research productivity in all fields of science with relevance to COVID-19). The implications of COVID-19 on good health and well-being, SDG-3, have attracted considerable attention. It is followed by SDG-13 that concerned with climate changes. The post-COVID-19 scenarios showed deep and justified worries in relation to achieving the SDGs by 2030. This study figures the major issues debated in the literature with respect to COVID-19 and its implications on the SDGs. The study, furthermore, attempts to assess the required actions to advance the SDGs post-COVID-19.

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Analyzing and visualizing global research trends on COVID-19 linked to sustainable development goals

Zyoud

2022

Environ Dev Sustain

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“…Tekeli-Yesil and Kiran (2020), however, have argued that nonstandard employment and its trade-offs should be considered specifically and significantly in hospital emergency and disaster planning. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, workers with mental disabilities have no flexible working opportunities (Warmate et al 2021). Organisations have used a flexible group-skunkworks approach to address technological difficulties, which has been very necessary for dealing with emerging HR-related challenges during the pandemic (Biron et al 2020).…”

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“…Vulnerable groups of labourers also require attention from both organisations and government. Although equal rights were practiced well in the pre-COVID-19 workforce, more support is needed for vulnerable groups of labourers during the pandemic (Warmate et al 2021). Employers can enjoy financial benefits for hiring workers with mental disabilities; at the same time, governments should develop effective policies to encourage the recruitment of workers with mental disabilities.…”

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Risk Management: Exploring Emerging Human Resource Issues during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Zhong

Ding

et al. 2021

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The unanticipated coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has hit global business heavily, disrupting the management of human resources across numerous industries. More than 500 articles (indexed in Scopus and the Web of Science) on the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on emerging human resources issues and related practices were published from 1 January 2020 to 31 January 2021. In this study, we conduct a systematic literature review on emerging studies in the business and management field to explore what the emerging human resource issues are during the COVID-19 pandemic and propose related practices to solve these issues. The analysis of the published literature identifies nine main human resource issues across 13 industries. The findings of this study suggest that COVID-19 has enormous impact on conventional human resource management and requires the theoretical and empirical attention of researchers. The propositions nominate related human resource practices to deal with emerging human resources issues and identify several research venues for future studies in this field.

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“…Finally, although this article focuses on children, changes relating to social distancing are affecting children and adults, and schools and employment. Regarding prospects for work opportunities in a difficult economy, one study from the UK [82] assessed 78 individuals with mental handicaps, who reported that the most essential flexible working opportunity to help them work efficiently was a safe and quiet place to go when overwhelmed. Data for that study were actually collected in summer 2019, but the results were discussed in the context of the pandemic.…”

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Psychosocial and Behavioural Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children with Autism and their Families: A Systematic Review and Initial Data from a Multinational Online Survey

Schneider¹,

Kowallik²,

Schweinberger³

et al. 2021

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Background: Since COVID-19 has become pandemic, everyday life has seen dramatic changes affecting individuals, families, and children with and without autism. These entail, among other things, more time at home, digital forms of communication, school closures, and reduced support and intervention. Aim: Here we aim to systematically assess the effects of the pandemic on autistic and neurotypical (NT) children, and pursue a pre-registered hypothesis suggested by initial observations that some children with autism might respond comparatively well to a situation of constrained, predictable, and digital social communication during the pandemic. Methods: We provide a systematic review of current relevant work, including 76 papers selected from a database search until February 1, 2021. We then report survey data from several countries assessing activities, well-being (PedsQLTM), and social life in families with autism, and their respective change at various stages of the pandemic. We focus on differences between children with and without autism from within the same families, and on different outcomes for children with high- or low-functioning autism. Results: While children with autism scored lower in emotional and social functioning than their NT siblings, comparable decreases in well-being and increases in anxiety were seen for both groups, compared to before the pandemic. By contrast, decreases in adaptability were significantly more pronounced in autistic than NT children. Preliminary results suggest that changes were comparable for children with high- and low-functional autism overall, but individual differences prevail. Conclusions: Overall, although individual families do report some positive effects of pandemic restrictions, our data give no clear evidence that these generalize across children with autism, or even just to children with high-functioning autism. We discuss significant challenges for children with and without autism that need to be addressed to protect childrens’ well-being under pandemic conditions but also point to potential in the present situation that could be used towards social participation and success in older children and young adults with autism.

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Offering flexible working opportunities to people with mental disabilities: The missing link between sustainable development goals and financial implications

Cited by 15 publications

References 46 publications

Analyzing and visualizing global research trends on COVID-19 linked to sustainable development goals

Analyzing and visualizing global research trends on COVID-19 linked to sustainable development goals

Risk Management: Exploring Emerging Human Resource Issues during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Psychosocial and Behavioural Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children with Autism and their Families: A Systematic Review and Initial Data from a Multinational Online Survey

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