This unique volume explores the various aspects of human resources management and challenges that leaders, managers, and employees are facing in dealing with the new normal that is the result of changing workplace conditions and priorities due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
With the outbreak of the pandemic and the resulting nationwide lockdowns, business across the globe came to an unexpected halt. This volume looks at the paradigm shift in the workplace ecosystem and how the world has changed in a big way. It discusses HR’s role in organizational growth strategies, employee well-being, and employee mental health during the economic downturn and offers coping strategies that aim to empower human resources through learning and resilience. This book explains strategies that will help in preserving healthy human resources, which are an important component of an organization’s effectiveness and growth. Chapters explain current trends in business and technology, the need for constant upskilling and digital dexterity, managing tech detox, and the way employees should work in the new normal.
Chapters in Human Resource Management in a Post-Epidemic Global Environment: Roles, Strategies, and Implementations cover how the role of HR has changed with the pandemic; workplace communication strategies; challenges and opportunities of technology use in work-from-home scenarios; flexible work practices; effective employee retention; preserving employees’ well-being, mental health, and work-life balance; the effect on gender equity; HR challenges in the tourism sector; and much more.
Organizations that adopt post-pandemic HR roles and strategies not only have the path to innovation but will also have a competitive landscape in the changing scenario. HR leadership and others at corporations and organizations—both large and small—will find this volume to be a useful resource for discussion, implementation, and innovation.
Author(s): Tanusree Chakraborty, Nandita Mishra, Madhurima Ganguly, Bipasha Chatterjee
Publisher: CRC Press/Apple Academic Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 384
City: Palm Bay
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
About the Editors
Table of Contents
Contributors
Abbreviations
Acknowledgment
Introduction
Preface
Chapter 1: Changing Role of Human Resource Management in the New Normal: A Post-Pandemic Paradigm Change
Chapter 2: Post-Pandemic HR Roles, Strategies, and Implementation: A Gen-Y Perspective
Chapter 3: Reimagining Post-Pandemic Communication Strategies at Workplace: A Mindful Shift
Chapter 4: Tech Detox and Tech Savvy: Two New Post-Pandemic Verticals of HR
Chapter 5: Unveiling the Notion of “Knowledge Hoarding” in a Post-Epidemic Global Business Environment
Chapter 6: A Shift in Post-Pandemic Work Strategies: Challenges and Opportunities of Technology Use vis-à-vis Work-from-Home
Chapter 7: The Shift from the New Normal to the Old Normal: Challenges and Solutions
Chapter 8: Organizational Growth, Sustainability, and Flexible Work Practices in the Post-Pandemic Era: Overcoming
Challenges through Green HRM
Chapter 9: Effective Employee Retention: Are Post-Pandemic Strategies Going to Change?
Chapter 10: Preserving Employees’ Well-Being: An Organization’s Post-Pandemic Imperative
Chapter 11: Employee Well-Being under the Work-from-Home Culture: Toward an Alternative Framework
Chapter 12: Post-Pandemic Employee Wellness Focus: An Empirical Study on the Well-Being Aspects of Healthcare Sector Employees
Chapter 13: Work-Life Issues and Stress: Challenges and Coping in the Post-Pandemic Period
Chapter 14: Self-Development among College Teachers during a Pandemic: A Qualitative Study with Reference to West Bengal, India
Chapter 15: Mental Health and Economic Downturn: Are Post-Pandemic HR Roles and Responsibilities Changing?
Chapter 16: Covert Casualty in a Crisis: Gender Equity—Empowering Human Resources via Learning, Authenticity, and Resilience
Chapter 17: A Perspective on Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) During the Post-Pandemic Era
Chapter 18: Post-Pandemic Vocational Compass: A Perspective on Career Navigation Dynamics
Chapter 19: Post-Pandemic Business Scenario: Outlining HR Challenges in the Tourism Sector
Index
