Orientation: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has taken the world by storm. Little is known about leadership, motivation and employee performance during pandemics associated lockdowns. Research purpose: current study investigated a model of leadership behaviour, team effectiveness, technological flexibility, work engagement in context ‘hard lockdown’ South Africa. Motivation for...

Background and Purpose—The purpose of this work was to investigate how stroke rehabilitation professionals understand the concept of motivation and the ways that they use this concept in their clinical practice. Methods—This qualitative study used semistructured, in-depth interviews with the professionals working in the stroke unit of an inner-city teaching hospital in the UK. Results—Motivatio...

Environmentally oriented firms are more pressed for resources in general, especially during periods of economic downturn. Since their business plans frequently innovative, they perceived as riskier by financial institutions. Furthermore, the recent global COVID-19 crisis was not primarily related to disruptions, and most governments provided generous widespread support different segments econom...

The development of innovative green products that can compete in unpredictable markets is a challenge for manufacturing firms. Hence, firms need to reconfigure their strategies by considering and strengthening the appropriate set internal capabilities achieve effective product development. Therefore initiatives implemented relation practices innovation are attracting increasing scholarly attent...