About this Research Topic
Social anxiety disorder (SAD), also known as social phobia develops a severe fear of social structures. Humans suffering from SAD feel uncomfortable when meeting and talking to new persons or participating in social events, as well as avoiding being judged or inspected by other persons. Workers who experience the symptoms of social anxiety are found to have reduced concentration, learning capabilities, and performance in the workplace. The most common causes of social anxiety are past experiences and environments, genetics, negative beliefs, behaviorally inhibited temperament, physical triggers, and the influence of technology. Each of these causes can be interrelated and inducing of one another. For instance, negative experiences, and environments during social interactions develop negative beliefs and maladaptive behaviors, these beliefs, and behaviors can then further develop and maintain social anxiety. COVID-19 has been a great disaster in human history and as a result has changed the living styles of people, the economic structures of countries, training and working behaviors, and even cognitive approaches. Most organizations that had the option, changed their workplace from physical to virtual; all professional meetings and job-related training were arranged virtually. As a result of these drastic social and professional changes, the normal social interactions experienced by workers and students worldwide had been completely changed.
For almost, two and half years, people were connected for working and learning purposes through information and telecommunication technologies, with most people having now adapted and enjoying online job training and working. However, as the post-COVID-19 era has started most business organizations have reopened their physical workplaces. This sudden change for employees being back to a physical workplace has caused discomfort in many. As they can no longer depend on the information and communication technologies in their interactions as they had during the pandemic, employees have begun to experience symptoms of SAD. Hence, the objective of this special issue is to first, explore the changes in behaviors of professional workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Second, the role of communication and information technologies in the development of SAD in workers. Third, the changes in the behavior of workers after the COVID-19 pandemic. Fourth, to understand the impact of SAD on employee training and performance.
This collection will welcome and showcase a selection of articles including but not limited to original Research, Systematic literature Review, Hypothesis and Theory Development, Qualitative research Methods, Quantitative Methods, and Mixed Research Methods. Furthermore, authors should seek to take multi-level approaches to accommodate individual, organizational, and societal viewpoints. We also encourage authors submitting to this research topic to concentrate on the consequences of SAD during and after the COVID-19 period. Additionally, we welcome submissions examining various contexts where social anxiety disorder has occurred, including corporate and non-corporate workplaces, such as business organizations, research labs, social organizations, government-owned institutions, NGOs, and social events. Please see the list of topics below for further clarification on the types of research we are interested in, but not limited to, receiving:
• Antecedents of social anxiety disorder.
• What is the role of personality traits or individual qualities in the development of social anxiety disorder?
• Role of the COVID-19 era in the development of social anxiety disorder?
• Online job training methods and social anxiety disorder?
• Role of leadership styles to control the social anxiety disorder in workers at the workplace?
• Social anxiety disorder and workers learning capacity in the post-COVID-19 era?
• Social anxiety disorder and innovative capabilities of the employees.
• Knowledge Hiding and organization innovation performance.
• Employers’ role to control the social anxiety disorder in workers in the post-COVID-19 period.
• Social dynamics and social anxiety disorder.
For almost, two and half years, people were connected for working and learning purposes through information and telecommunication technologies, with most people having now adapted and enjoying online job training and working. However, as the post-COVID-19 era has started most business organizations have reopened their physical workplaces. This sudden change for employees being back to a physical workplace has caused discomfort in many. As they can no longer depend on the information and communication technologies in their interactions as they had during the pandemic, employees have begun to experience symptoms of SAD. Hence, the objective of this special issue is to first, explore the changes in behaviors of professional workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Second, the role of communication and information technologies in the development of SAD in workers. Third, the changes in the behavior of workers after the COVID-19 pandemic. Fourth, to understand the impact of SAD on employee training and performance.
This collection will welcome and showcase a selection of articles including but not limited to original Research, Systematic literature Review, Hypothesis and Theory Development, Qualitative research Methods, Quantitative Methods, and Mixed Research Methods. Furthermore, authors should seek to take multi-level approaches to accommodate individual, organizational, and societal viewpoints. We also encourage authors submitting to this research topic to concentrate on the consequences of SAD during and after the COVID-19 period. Additionally, we welcome submissions examining various contexts where social anxiety disorder has occurred, including corporate and non-corporate workplaces, such as business organizations, research labs, social organizations, government-owned institutions, NGOs, and social events. Please see the list of topics below for further clarification on the types of research we are interested in, but not limited to, receiving:
• Antecedents of social anxiety disorder.
• What is the role of personality traits or individual qualities in the development of social anxiety disorder?
• Role of the COVID-19 era in the development of social anxiety disorder?
• Online job training methods and social anxiety disorder?
• Role of leadership styles to control the social anxiety disorder in workers at the workplace?
• Social anxiety disorder and workers learning capacity in the post-COVID-19 era?
• Social anxiety disorder and innovative capabilities of the employees.
• Knowledge Hiding and organization innovation performance.
• Employers’ role to control the social anxiety disorder in workers in the post-COVID-19 period.
• Social dynamics and social anxiety disorder.
Keywords: Social Anxiety, Learning Behaviors, Working Performance, Social Interaction, Online Learning, Virtual Learning, Student Performance, Post-Covid-19 Era, Physical/Virtual workplace
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