Employee Wellbeing and Mental Health in Organizations
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Occupational Safety and Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 October 2023) | Viewed by 579
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The recent emergent health crisis and ongoing global geopolitical tensions exacerbated the general uncertainty, posing both tangible socioeconomic threats to public welfare and subjective distress for individual workers. Unexpected adversity evoked plenty of problems, ranging from labor market volatility, inflated poverty, financial collapses, large-scale lockdowns, suspension of business and social practices, change in working process and a transition to a new paradigm known as 'the new normal. We are already faced with global-scale mental health challenges, and, likely, consequences of mass layoffs, imposition of social distancing policies and restricted access to health care services will continue to yield detrimental consequences, especially among vulnerable populations. The latter is reflected in the drastic increase in recorded cases of psychological disorders and psychopathology, such as episodic depression and generalized anxiety, dissociative symptoms, and psycho-somatic difficulties. Employers are faced with antagonistic employee responses to structural organizational changes. On the other hand, work stressors such as demanding conditions, excessive workload, salary reduction, work-life imbalance, role conflict, ambiguity, and lack of social support exacerbated employees' psychological strain. Individuals undergoing emotional turmoil are confronted with threats to personal, social and professional identity. In the last three years, epidemiologists, medical experts, psychologists, sociologists and organizational researchers generated a myriad of studies providing solid evidence for the association between socioeconomic crisis and mental impairment. However, before managerial recommendations, health promotional and organizational interventions to mitigate the harmful effects can be applied in practice, a coherent and all-comprehensive research framework accounting for all aspects of work-related psychological well-being that identifies antecedents of mental illness should be established. Therefore, we invite researchers to contribute to the Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health by submitting original academic studies based on advanced research methods, random controlled trials, and new technologies in both organizational and clinical settings. Reviews, case reports, meta-analyses, and conceptual and empirical studies are welcomed.
Dr. Bojan Obrenovic
Dr. Dragana Ostic
Dr. Sikandar Ali Qalati
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- employee wellbeing
- mental health
- psychological well-being
- job uncertainty
- psychological health
- anxiety
- depression
- workplace stress
- organizational wellbeing
- global crisis
