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"This book presents the latest scholarly research on the design and implementation of e-collaboration technology in workplace settings, featuring extensive coverage on a range of topics relating to the benefits and challenges of these tools"--

The authors introduce the concept of perceived organizational obstruction (POO) to fill a theoretical gap in the social exchange literature. They draw on four different samples of employees working in various organizations to: (a) generate items to measure POO, (b) assess the psychometric properties of the POO scale, (c) replicate the factor structure and other psychometric properties of the scale, (d) assess the discriminant validity with respect to existing measures of the employer—employee relationship, and (e) determine whether POO explains additional variance beyond existing constructs (perceived organizational support, psycholosgical contract breach, organizational politics, procedural justice, and organizational frustration) in the exit, voice, loyalty, and neglect framework. The results of this study indicate that the POO scale is internally consistent and unidimensional, demonstrates discriminant validity with respect to existing employer— employee relationship constructs, and explains additional variance in the exit, voice, loyalty, and neglect framework.

"This book is a collective journal of the COVID-19 pandemic. With first-hand accounts of the pandemic as it unfolded, it explores the social and the political through the lens of the outbreak. Featuring contributors located in India, USA, Brazil, UK, Germany, and Bulgaria, the book presents us with simultaneous, multiple histories of our time. The volume documents the beginning of social distancing and lockdown measures adopted by countries around the word and analyses how these bore upon prevailing social conditions in specific locations. It presents the authors' personal observations in a lucid conversational style as they reflect on themes such as the reorganization of political debates and issues, the experience of the marginalized, theodicy, government policy responses, and shifts into digital space under lockdown, all of these under an overarching narrative of the healthcare and economic crisis facing the world. A unique and engaging contribution, this book will be useful to students and researchers of sociology, public health, political economy, public policy, and comparative politics. It will also appeal to general readers interested in pandemic literature"--

The COVID-19 pandemic is an extremely provocative and challenging topic for a widerange of multidisciplinary research. Including research in the fields of medical sociology,social epidemiology and political epidemiology. Areas that in our Republic are ratherneglected. In any case, unjustified. This statement certainly applies and to medical sociology,as a separate sociology in relation to general sociology. The COVID-19 pandemic on a globalscale has aroused very strong interest in its study from the scientific position of medicalsociology, most often in community, i. e. as a truly multidisciplinary approach, and with someclose special sociology, but also in multidisciplinary community with other scientific fields.Including epidemiology, i. e. social epidemiology and political epidemiology. In our country,a very small number of sociologists, through their research interest and engagement, are directand specialize (and) in different types of research in the field of medical sociology. Medicalsociology as a special sociology is also called as sociology of medicine, sociology of healthand diseases… In this text, as a combined approach from the sides of medical sociology,social epidemiology and political epidemiology, several selected aspects of the COVID-19pandemic will be research-analytically "illuminated". Among other things, the aspects ofthe definition of health and disease, as basic notions in the field of medical sociology, then,the aspects of the treatment of public health, infectious diseases and the medical fields thatdeal with them, means the areas of preventive and preclinical medicine in terms of clinicalmedicine, the phenomenon of risk balancing and some others.

"This book explores the issues on current gender gaps and how it impacts upon social inclusion. It also provides the resources necessary for policymakers, academics, researchers, international governmental organizations to identify current challenges and solutions towards social inclusion with respect to gender"--