In December 2019, the first case of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was identified in China's Wuhan City in the Hubei Province. Since then, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths worldwide has increased daily. On March 11, 2020, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) had declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic. COVID-19 is a socio-economic disease that rapidly destroys nations' social and economic structures. For example, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has estimated that the global airline industry lost over US$113 billion in passenger revenues to COVID-19 in 2020. COVID-19 outbreak has also prompted the closure of private businesses, governmental organizations, and other entities, resulting in lower employee productivity, decreased profitability, and higher fiscal deficit in the oil-exporting countries. Due to the magnitude of economic and social consequences of COVID-19, researchers across a wide variety of fields have carried out several studies on this global pandemic.

The extant literature on COVID-19 has centered mainly on the effects of a pandemic on negative attitudinal and behavioral work outcomes. Although understanding how COVID-19 influences negative work outcomes are helpful, it is mismatched with the opinions of industrial and organizational psychologists that the pandemic plays a crucial role in contributing to positive attitudinal and behavioral outcomes. Moreover, the pandemic implications on positive work outcomes are still largely unknown. Building on this claim, our primary goal in this Research Topic is to invite scientific communities' theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions to address some of the following research questions:

1. When and how does fear of COVID-19 enhance safety performance in the workplace?

2. How does COVID-19 contribute to constructive deviance in the workplace?

3. To what extent does COVID-19 contribute to innovative work behavior?

4. How does COVID-19 contribute to employee well-being?

5. To what extent does COVID-19 contribute to organizational citizenship behavior?

This Research Topic will be welcome original research — empirical, theoretical, systematic reviews, policy and practice reviews, registered reports, qualitative and methodological works on any topic relating to COVID-19, and positive work outcomes will be welcome, including, but are not limited to, the following:

• Fear of coronavirus disease and safety performance in the workplace

• Coronavirus disease and constructive deviance in the workplace

• Coronavirus disease and innovative work behavior

• Coronavirus disease and employee well-being

• Coronavirus disease and organizational citizenship behavior

• Fear of coronavirus disease and voice behavior

• Coronavirus disease and psychological empowerment

• Coronavirus disease and work engagement

• Coronavirus disease and knowledge sharing behavior

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