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Fourth Industrial Revolution and ‎Post COVID-19: Workplace ‎‎Implications and Insight for Future ‎Research

Dr. Kalimullah Khan Bangash ‎

Volume 3 Issue 3 | Sep 2020

DOI: 10.31841/KJEMS.2021.20

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Abstract

Given centrality to the issue of COVID-19 and its widespread impacts, this ‎theoretical article has ‎fostered a debate for future research pertaining to ‎Covid-19 effects on various spheres of ‎organizational psychology. More ‎specifically, this paper proposes a future research agenda, ‎discusses on issues ‎and implications for an organization. While emphasizing on postcovid19 ‎‎workplace environment but more significantly this article also provides some ‎insight on working ‎environment of fourth industrial revolution with relation ‎to the post COVID-19 workplace ‎environment. As, the article is theoretical and ‎therefore, it is based on observations of covid19 ‎pandemic and also based on ‎secondary data the form of some academic articles and reports. ‎As, COVID-19 ‎has been stimulus for tremendous layer of change in all spheres of human life ‎and ‎hence it is also expected that postcovid19 workplace environment will not ‎remain the same and ‎therefore organizations need to rethink, recommit and ‎reposition their existence for ‎sustainable performance in the era of fourth ‎industrial revolution. ‎

Keywords: ‎ Industrial Revolution, COVID-19, Psychology, Pandemic‎