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COVID-19 has shifted the paradigms of reality for everyone. For many employees and organizations alike, working from home has become the new “normal” whereby work and home boundaries have become blurred. In addition to handling all the anxiety provoked by the pandemic, employees have to constantly juggle work and home demands in the hope of achieving an optimum work-family balance.
Read MoreGiven the pervasive structural racism during the 20th century and beyond, relative improvement of black compared with white mortality may be surprising. Despite considerable resistance to the dismantling of systemic racism, it is likely that the gains in black mortality from 1900 to 2010 are associated with gains in multiple social determinants of health
Read MoreDisruption and change are the new normal. This new normal is characterised by four forces—change, complexity, chaos, and contradiction. Organisations desirous of thriving in such rapidly changing environments need to go beyond strategic exploitation of their present competitive advantages.
Read MoreThe recent explosion of information about journals, publication ethics, and transparency (about the process of submission, peer review, and decision) has been advantageous for authors. The process can be different for each journal based on numbers of submissions, publication frequency, and staff resources that are committed to publishing the journal either online or in print. Here I will discuss some of that process for my journal.
Read MoreThe scope of Human Relations is very broad and I am particularly positive about this. A recent analysis of the characteristics of published articles shows that about forty percent of articles use qualitative methods, forty percent use quantitative methods and twenty percent of them are conceptual.
Read MoreHow are international students affected by COVID-19? Were there any surprises when conducting interviews online? What does it feel like to be part of the group you are studying? These are just some of the topics that came up when the Hive Scholars sat down to discuss the research being done by one of our own!
Read MoreDigitally enabled services are becoming a priority of the government of India and ‘Multi Application Smart Card’ a new tool to ensure access as well as delivery of public services for various social sector schemes. Among these schemes, universal health coverage (UHC) has been prioritised in the past decade, the ‘Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana’ (RSBY) was notified under the Ministry of Labour and Employment in 2008.
Read MoreGlobal failures to protect the public from the corona virus first wave are visible for all to see. Global failures to protect the health and safety of doctors, nurses and other health professionals dealing with COVID-19 patients have been highly visible too on our TV screens and in newspapers.
Read MoreThe work of social and behavioural scientists is paramount to dismantling the mechanisms of discrimination and violence, to eradicate social injustice and create a progressive, inclusive and diverse society.
Read MoreOur media are full of stories of how surveillance technology deployed at the EU’s external border damages the human rights of migrants and tramples on EU values. Critics continuously condemn the deployment of both piloted and unmanned aircraft by Frontex, the EU’s border agency, and national border guards. They say that the use of this modern technology ‘militarises’ European borders.
Read MoreThe 3rd Annual Digital Health Promotion Executive Leadership Summit came to a close after three days of presentations by some of the leading researchers, thought leaders and innovators who are working in the digital space. There were several important highlights of the virtual Summit.
Read MoreAlthough digital strategists from government, academia, and industry are collaborating to improve access to accurate COVID-19 information on social media, citizens in a democratic society need guidance today on sorting out fact from fiction.
Read MoreThe approval of endovascular procedures in 2015 to remove occlusive thrombi in large vessel stroke has revolutionized stroke care. Since the diffusion in clinical practice of endovascular procedures, extracted cerebral thrombi have become available. This material was before mostly inaccessible for analysis, with rare exceptions of post-mortem and experimental studies.
Read MoreAll of us in the congenital heart surgery community have been dramatically affected by COVID, most particularly in our ability to take care of our patients. As programs across the country have faced severely decreased resources and threats to our small workforce, the leaders of our congenital heart surgery organizations have collaborated to provide guidance on the management of congenital heart surgery programs during this crisis.
Read MoreFinancial Inclusion is considered to be a critical indicator for development and well-being of the society around the globe. G-20 Nations have emphasized financial inclusion as a facilitator for achieving gender equality and other sustainable development goals. Women empowerment is a radical approach concerned with transforming power relations in favour of female gender and considered essential for global progress.
Read MoreUtilising the experience and knowledge of your editorial board is key to any successful journal development strategy and holding editorial board meetings is a great way to bring the board together to collaborate, plan and strategise. By holding these virtually using conference call software, you facilitate the attendance of as many board members as possible!
Read MoreAs Editor of the Journal of General Management (JOGM), I would like to comment on how I go about making decisions on papers, why it can take time to make decisions on certain papers, and reasoning surrounding those decisions. I hope that my perspective will encourage researchers to submit their work to JOGM as well as be of use to those who review for the journal or mentor fellow researchers to publish in the field of general management.
Read MorePollution haven hypothesis (PHH) represents a situation where the incentive-driven economic activities those are polluting in nature, arguably getting necessary zest in some countries and stringent regulations in some others which creating a scope of comparative advantage for those pollution havens in pollution intensive commodity trade.
Read MoreWe asked this question ourselves many times, as we worked as front line medics, psychological support staff and leaders in the heart of the outbreak in London. We shared what we learned in our recent article “Mental health care for medical staff and affiliated healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic”
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