CURRENT STATUS OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ON COVID 19 CRISES

Abstract

Today’s organizations have to remain alert and adaptive to unforeseen events, such as external crises, which create increased uncertainty among their workforce and pose immediate threats to the organizations’ performance and viability. 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. In this article, we discusses some of these challenges, focusing on the implications COVID-19 has for human resource management (HRM) as organizations help their workforce cope with and adjust to their newly altered work environment. The purpose of this study is to explore challenges and opportunities of human resource management during covid 19 crisis. The research methodology is a qualitative methodology using semi-structured interviews with five HR (human resources) professionals in the Bangladesh. The semi-structured interviews address the areas of HR planning, reward management, performance management, training and development, health and safety and employee relations, and their change in an era of digital transformation. This study analyse the effect of covid 19 from the aspect of organisation and employee.