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. 2022 Feb 7;19(3):1865.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph19031865.

Modelling the COVID-19 Pandemic Effects on Employees' Health and Performance: A PLS-SEM Mediation Approach

Ion Popa  1 , Simona Cătălina Ștefan  1 , Ana Alexandra Olariu  1 , Ștefan Cătălin Popa  1 , Cătălina Florentina Popa  1
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Modelling the COVID-19 Pandemic Effects on Employees' Health and Performance: A PLS-SEM Mediation Approach

Ion Popa et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the imposition of certain changes in the management of organizations and in the behavior and actions of employees. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic effects on employees' health and mental well-being, as well as on their working performance. Moreover, the paper aims to highlight whether health- and work-related stress factors mediate the above relations. For the purpose of data collection, a structured questionnaire was used. The first results of the study showed that the pandemic effects felt by employees did not directly affect their mental and physical well-being. On the other hand, the COVID-19 pandemic effects felt by employees affected their general work performance. The findings of the study may provide a useful perspective for organizations and their employees in order to adopt the most effective measures to minimize the effects generated by the pandemic.

Keywords: COVID-19; mental well-being; pandemic effects; physical well-being; stress factors; work performance.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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The structural model. Source: authors’ computation with SmartPls 3.3.3 [67]. *** p < 0.001; ** p < 0.01.
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