The Dark Side and the Light Side of Technology Related Stress and Stress Related to Workplace Innovations: 2nd Edition
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Behavioral and Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 748
Special Issue Editors
Interests: workplace mental health; organizational intelligence; emotional intelligence; innovation; stress; PTSD; marketing; psychological testing; cross-cultural psychology; welfare; occupational risks; social competition; future of work; future of work in religious organizations; digital stress
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Interests: occupational medicine; occupational health; workplace health promotion; risk assessment; workplace risk factors; cardiovascular risk; psychological well-being; work-related stress; organizational factors
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Interests: organizational psychology; government; business and society; sustainable development; strategy; governance and ethics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As a result of rapid and continual organizational change worldwide, work-related stress problems have substantially increased, as noted by scientists, practitioners, and institutions such as the WHO, ILO, and EU-OSHA. Looking ahead to 2030, formal work participation rates are expected to continue their long-term decline, increasing economic stress, fears of unemployability, and anxiety in the workplace. Moreover, technology related stress is impacting public-sector interfaces through innovation in AI that requires new laws and regulations. Hence, technological stress is increasingly becoming blurred between public governance and private innovation due to ungoverned human data that are collected, examined, and stored at domestic and global levels.
Continuous technological changes are driven by private innovations and public governance that shape and direct structural, technological, and communication transformations, economic development, and social change. These technological transformations are increasingly impacting the future of employees’ health through misuse, abuse, and overuse, resulting in technostress. Furthermore, repetitive mundane tasks for entry-level workers will become automated, making young professionals rethink workplace ethics, health, and wellbeing.
Clearly, the use of technological innovation within the organizational context needs to be ethical. Marketing is increasingly prescribing ways for humans to think through app templates for human and social development and personal formation, while simultaneously reducing human innovation capacities. Therefore, innovations in the private sector are becoming blurred between technology and humans that shape human character.
Digitalization may improve work–life balance and autonomy, but it may also be harmful to individuals’ rest and recovery and may correlate with a rise in work-related stress and illness. Likewise, human–machine collaboration will change the modern context across different industries, leading to the emergence of human technostress towards dehumanization within the workplace.
This research topic is particularly interested in manuscripts that offer insights into the relationship between innovations ethics and health from the private and/or public sectors. We encourage a focus on how technological innovation, personal formation and digital and human–robot transformation will shape the health, innovative capacities and productivity of individuals and organizations. Therefore, due to the emergence of dehumanization within congruent and incongruent associations and linear and curvilinear relations, these constructs in research are fundamental.
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Giorgi
Dr. Nicola Mucci
Dr. Monica Thiel
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- innovation
- occupational health
- business
- government
- personal formation
- techno-anxiety
- techno-addiction
- techno-strain
- work-related stress
- dehumanization
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