Human Resource Management and Organizational Resilience in the Era of COVID-19: Theoretical Insights, Challenges and Implications

Abstract

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic is currently considered as a critical global health crisis that endangers the health and safety of individuals. This new disease not only assesses organization's resilience but also their ability to follow an altered strategy that enables them to adapt to these trigger events. This situation creates an environment of uncertainty for their workforce and generates instant threats to their performance and sustainability. Therefore, organizations' leaders are taking strategic actions to face effectively these critical circumstances by renewing their human resource strategies. This paper conducted a thorough literature review to elaborate a critical analysis of insights, challenges, and implications for human resource management (HRM) in the era of COVID-19. The results of this research paper reveled that resilient organizations can better support their workforce to cope with this newly altered work environment. Decision makers must adopt the organizational resilience approach in order to achieve outstanding performance in a dynamic environment.