Exploring the Moderating Effect of Musculoskeletal Pain on Technostress-Induced Burnout: A Cross-Sectional Study of Bank Employees.

Background/objectives: Information and Communications Technology (ICT) advancements and high customer expectations are boosting the use of digital transformation and tech tools in business processes in a competitive environment. This trend enhances business effectiveness and efficiency but also introduces technostress as a new workplace stress factor. Technostress, defined as stress induced by using ICT in the workplace, has become increasingly prevalent in modern work environments, especially in sectors such as banking, due to digital transformation.

Country risk, global uncertainty, and firms' cash holdings: Do the role of law, culture, and financial market development matter?

To the extent of our knowledge, there is a gap in scrutinizing the impacts of the country's risk and global uncertainty on Asian firms' cash holdings. Therefore, this work aims to shed light on this gap by choosing 989 listed non-financial Asian firms and performing both the static (fixed-effects) and dynamic (Difference-GMM and System-GMM) panel data methods between 2008 and 2020. The findings reveal that an increase in a country's risk and global uncertainty stimulates firms to stockpile more cash though the impact of country risk is more pronounced.

Does economic policy uncertainty impact firms' capital structure policy? Evidence from Western European economies.

This study specifically investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on travel and leisure (TL) companies' debt holdings policy. To the best of our knowledge, there is a momentous gap in exclusively conducting the impact of EPU on the debt holdings policy behavior of Western European firms operating in the TL sector and its sub-sectors, namely the airlines, gambling, hotels, recreational services, restaurants and bars, and travel and tourism. In this sector, external financing is strongly needed to finance enormous investments and replace, expand, and modernize tangible and intangible assets.

The Mediating Role of Perceived Organizational Support in the Impact of Work Engagement on Job Performance.

In the 21st century, many scientific discoveries and treatments that science offers to humanity in the health sector, as well as many negative developments that it has created on the sector and employees cannot be ignored. Along with the Covid-19 pandemic, the heavy workload in the health sector and the risks in the working environment have created an important source of stress for the employees. This has affected employees' work engagement and job performance.

COVID-19 and human flourishing: The moderating role of gender.

COVID-19 fear restricts human freedom and decreases human flourishing. This paper examines the relationship between COVID-19 fear and human flourishing. Additionally, it tests gender's moderating effect in this relationship.