People and Organisation

 Human Resource Management in Pandemic  COVID-19 has challenged organizations' creativity and innovation and has urged discussions about the future of work (Hite & McDonald, Reference Hite and McDonald2020). It has accelerated the disruption of HRM as well as the implementation of scenarios expected for the future (Hite & McDonald, Reference Hite and McDonald2020). Moreover, it has pushed organizations to rethink their HRM strategies and to go beyond the traditional models of managing human resources, by positioning new information technology as an essential partner to survive and to ensure the sustainability of their business. In this context, new legislation has been adopted in different countries to support organizations in this sudden and unexpected transformation. For example, Germany has adopted new legislation to introduce the possibility of video conferencing in two areas (Sagan & Schüller, Reference Sagan and Schüller2020), to support the implementation of...

  Pandemic and Human Resource Management During late 2019 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus -2, known as Covid-19 invade the world which impact billions of people within short period of a time and on 11 March 2011 the World Health organisation declared as a pandemic. Virus induced pandemic not only affected health services but also every other industry as rapid growth of infected people, forced governments through out the world to lock down respective countries. Millions of workers lost their jobs while majority of the organisations changed their policies and practices to avoid contracting virus. Many companies adopted remote working option to minimise the impact on business while maintaining health and safety guidelines impose by government. Covid-19 is the biggest global health challenge the world faced after more than a decade (Brodeur et al.,2020; Gourinchas,2020). Once the pandemic got settled down company started resume their temporarily halted operations to recov...