Rethinking Strategic Human Resource Response in the Post-Covid 19 Era

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic's development has brought about unexpected changes in how businesses and organizations are run. Employers and supervisors have also had to reconsider how to best manage their human resources (HR) while also preparing for potential future unexpected disasters in order to adapt. Unexpected events like external crises, which heighten employee insecurity and represent direct challenges to the performance and profitability of the firm, force today's enterprises to stay vigilant and adaptable. However, with the recent COVID-19 pandemic, organizations suddenly have to navigate the unprecedented and thereby find new solutions to challenges arising across many areas of their operations. To ensure that businesses continued, a work-from-home policy was implemented by almost every other business. This enabled everyone to do their work while maintaining social distancing. Despite the changes, this pandemic taught businesses as well as their HR managers a lot of lessons. This paper examined the need for rethinking human resource management practices in the post-COVID-19 era. The paper is conceptual in nature and thus largely desk research which examined extant literature.