The rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has forced organizations to impose physical distancing restrictions on employees and to practice teleworking on a large scale. Adapting to the new context has generated an increase in job insecurity, and a decrease in employee productivity concerning task completion, boosting stress and counterproductive work behavior. Although the challenges employees face when carrying out their activities and work-related responsibilities, together with an understanding of the factors generating counterproductive work behaviors and job insecurity have been intensely studied in the literature, their manifestation and impact within organizations in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic is barely covered. This paper aims to fill this research gap by evaluating the way internal vision communication, employee reward systems, knowledge, and skills capitalization, and the maintaining of task performance can diminish counterproductive work behaviors and job insecurity generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, influencing employee satisfaction and behavior in this stress-inducing context. The responses collected from 863 Romanian employees are modelled with the help of structural equations in SmartPLS. The results show that in the case of counterproductive work behavior, employee satisfaction diminishes, while efficient performance of tasks and responsibilities, knowledge and skills capitalization, internal vision communication, and the existence of an employee reward system for employee input can all generate greater organizational attachment. Job satisfaction mediates the influence of performance, internal marketing, and counterproductive work behavior in employees’ attachment towards their respective organizations. The paper contributes to the development of the Conservation of Resources Theory, highlighting, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, ways in which employee satisfaction and work engagement behavior can be enhanced, thus contributing to diminishing counterproductive work behaviors, and fostering a pleasant and safe work environment.

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Non-profit organizations have an important role in democracy development, volunteering and in providing support for disadvantaged social categories whose access to social and medical services or to goods of current necessity is reduced. Recent studies prove that local social sustainability correlates to non-profit organizations density at a local or regional level. Previous research encompasses two directions for the study of the role of non-profit organization the first is supported by the Theory of Government and Market Failure, and the second by the Theory of Voluntary Failure. The Theory of Government and Market Failure starts from the assumption that non-profit sector developed as a result of the need for social services provided to categories of population for whom government and market failed to provide to an affordable price or constantly. The Theory of Voluntary Failure starts from the assumption that non-profit sector plays the most important role in case of socio-economic crises or catastrophes but for organizations to perform well the support of the state is needed. This research aim is the assessment of non-profit density correlation to economic development and percentage of the social vulnerable population in Romania. This paper brings theoretical contribution to the study of the non-profit density, to the Theory of Government and Market Failure and to the Theory of Voluntary Failure and practical implications to an emerging economy.