As role models and salient sources of social information, forgiving leaders are prosocial facilitators of team interactions, with consequences for team performance. Through a multi-source field study (227 teams/leaders) and a vignette-based experiment (101 teams), we show that (a) leader-expressed forgiveness predicts team performance through, serially, team forgiveness climate and team helping behavior, and (b...
COVID-19 lockdowns forced organizations to rapidly shift from face-to-face interactions to online platforms, leading to unforeseen challenges. This study retrospectively examines the extreme conditions of teleworking, which blurred the boundaries between home and workspaces, providing a unique opportunity to assess perceptions of work-life and life-work conflicts and their consequences. Data were collected from...
Introduction: Complex chronic diseases have been responsible for about a third of all pediatric deaths in Portugal in recent years. Early referral and implantation of an advance care plan are strategies that result in greater preparation on the part of families for dealing with the course of illness of these children. This study aimed to characterize the mortality data of patients followed by the pediatric pall...
As condições de trabalho a que os profissionais de saúde estão expostos diariamente (i.e., sobrecarga horária e a disponibilidade de EPIs) sofreram alterações muito significativas com o surgimento da COVID19. Assim, e sabendo que mesmo antes da pandemia as condições de trabalho destes profissionais eram já reconhecidas como preditores de stress ocupacional, este estudo pretende compreender as diferenças entre a...
Em março de 2020, a Organização Mundial de Saúde declarou a COVID-19 como pandemia. O seu surgimento e propagação contribuiu para aumentar os desafios existentes no quotidiano dos profissionais de saúde, impelindo o desenvolvimento de uma parceria entre o Serviço Nacional de Saúde e Privados para prestar uma resposta otimizada ao tratamento da doença, em Portugal. O stress ocupacional, traduzido no medo e preoc...
Telework has progressively increased in the past decades, providing organizations and, consequently, leaders, with new challenges. The COVID19 pandemic not on-ly doubled the number of teleworkers, but reinforced these challenges, by forcing some organizations and employees to abruptly adapt to this new reality. In this manuscript, we aimed to explore the role of the strategies implemented by leaders to manage t...
This study aims to understand to what extent the working conditions to which health professionals are exposed daily (work overload and the availability of PPE) will affect the occupational stress of these workers. As these conditions have changed very significantly with the advent of COVID19, it becomes important to understand the differences between the first confinement and the subsequent period. This researc...
In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a pandemic. Its appearance and propagation contributed to increase the challenges existent in the everyday life of healthcare workers, compelling a partnership between private and public sectors to optimize the response towards treatment of the disease in Portugal. Occupational stress, described as the fear or worry in being or transmitting the i...
O contexto empresarial das startups é uma temática pouco explorada na literatura académica. No entanto, as características destas organizações levantam questões sobre como são percecionados determinados conceitos teóricos, tais como a cultura organizacional. A cultura organizacional representa a base sobre a qual se constrói a estrutura das organizações, sendo determinante para definir as características do tra...
O contexto empresarial das startupsé uma temática pouco explorada na literatura académica. No entanto, as características destas organizações levantam questões sobre como são percecionados determinados conceitos teóricos, tais como a cultura organizacional. A cultura organizacional representa a base sobre a qual se constrói a estrutura das organizações, sendo determinante para definir as características do trab...