Impact of COVID-19 on Leading and Managing Organisational Resources

This report examines the significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on leading and managing organisational resources. It explores how leaders must adapt to the "new normal" by addressing challenges such as remote work, employee health, and safety protocols. The report delves into the roles and responsibilities of leaders in guiding, training, and motivating employees, emphasizing the importance of communication, flexibility, and the adoption of appropriate leadership styles like participative leadership. The study highlights the need for strategies such as training programs, fostering a culture of innovation, and providing growth opportunities to retain employees. The report concludes that effective leadership is crucial for navigating the changes brought about by COVID-19, ensuring organizational efficiency, and achieving goals in a challenging environment.

Leading and managing organisational
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
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INTRODUCTION
In present times, covid 19 has highly impacted on entire global economy. It has transformed the
way of living life. Due to it, new normal has emerged as new concept or way of living life.
Thus, it is being adopted by people in society as well as in organisations. Moreover, it has been
analysed that covid 19 has changed the way of working in companies. This is because there is
negative impact of covid 19 on employee mental and physical health. In every firm leader play
vital role in managing of staff. They also work with them in effective way by directing and
guiding them (Anderson, 2017).
In this report it will be described about that how leaders need to approach new challenge
of adopting of new normal within organisation.
MAIN BODY
Leaders are main pillar of an organisation. They are responsible for all the things such as
guiding, training, motivating, etc. of employee and attaining of goals in time. Without leaders
organisation can not work and goals are not accomplished. Alongside, they need to manage
entire workforce as well. But in recent time due to covid 19 it has become highly difficult for
leader to manage work force. This is because of fact that now new way of working is to be
adopted in it. Besides that, use of resources and HR has modified and this has affected on
working in organisation. Also, there is high impact on productivity as well of staff and due to
that goals are not attained. The organisation is not able to manage workforce due to shortage
of employees. The new normal requires to work in new way by focusing on health and safety.
This is required to do so as now working in groups in single room is not accepted. Additionally,
new norms and guidelines are followed in it (Baškarada, Watson, and Cromarty, 2016).
It has been stated that there are many changes occurred in organisation because of this new
normal. As already many employees prefer to work from home instead of coming to
organisation. Furthermore, there is decline in performance of staff as well. Apart from it,
companies have to strictly follow guidelines and norms of government in it. there is need to
follow social distancing while working, compulsory wearing of masks, regularly sanitizes
hands, etc. Besides that, main is maintaining hygiene and safety at workplace. so, this is
difficult task for leader to do. The machines, equipments, tools, etc. need to be cleaned and
sanitized regularly. Thus, there is complete change in way managing them as well as resources.
A leader is also require to possess relevant skills and capabilities in order to adopt this new
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way of working in organisation. There are ways related to how things are made into it. if leader
does not possess skills then it becomes difficult to train and develop staff. by adopting,
resilience, etc. this concept can be easily adopted. It allows in working with new norms and
procedure. Furthermore, new procedure and methods are included in it as well (Eva and et.al.,
2016).
Therefore, it is essential for leader that they must manage and handle this critical situation in
effective way. this is because if not handled than it can led to ineffective working in company
and leading to reducing its efficiency as well. Thus, in order to approach this new challenge there
are various ways the leader can do it. Here, they must apply different types of leadership styles
according to situation so that employees feel comfortable. In this the best is participative style
where leader will take decision by consulting with all employees. Thus, leader will get ideas and
suggestions regarding how to work, etc. this will also make staff feel comfortable as well.
basically, this style will also be useful in attaining of goals and objectives in effective way.
Moreover, leader must communicate regularly with staff regarding any issues or problems
being faced. It will be useful in finding out areas or problem faced by staff. Thus , with
communication leader will be able to motivate staff easily. They will direct and support them in
working in new way and accomplishing goals. So, if any staff is facing difficulty in working in
new normal way then leader can support them by solving their issue (Moldoveanu, and
Narayandas 2019).
Other than this, leader can develop a strategy of providing training to staff. They can do
planning in depth that how to train them, take feedback, do observation, etc. hence, through new
methods or ways training can be provided to staff on regular basis that how to work in new
normal way. This will make staff prepare about how they have to perform tasks, whom to report,
etc. besides that, leader should encourage staff to work in effective way. Motivation will be
useful in preparing staff to work in such a critical situation. It will remove feeling of fear from
them and they will be able to work freely in organisation.
The leader can focus on employee skills rather than their performance. This will be helpful
in ensuring that staff possess effective and relevant skills to be able to work in new normal. But
if leader focuses on performance then they will not be able to adopt this approach. It is because
leader will pressurize staff to work in even in bad conditions. Hence, it may lead to ineffective
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working and attaining goals. Also, staff may feel pressure on their mental and physical health. It
can results in creating negative culture in business.
The leader should try and develop a new culture in organisation. It means that culture of
innovation must be created in it. The culture can be developed by including flexibility in
working. Here, the leader can practice flexibility working within firm. This will allow staff to
work in flexible way and also it will be easy for leader to manage employees as well. along with
it, staff will also feel comfortable in working in flexible way. this practice can be implemented in
at levels. Hence, leader should make plan of shift of staff is to be changed and this practice is
applied. Also, leader can provide more growth opportunities for employees and retain them. it
will enable in providing ease in managing workforce. For that new development program can be
started where staff is allowed to work in effective way (Yunarsih, and et.al., 2020).
So, leader are responsible for adopting of new normal in managing of workforce. They
need to have a clear mind set that how this concept is to be adopted. By providing training it
becomes easy to make staff aware about new way of working in company. It also sharpen their
Thus, it is being adopted by people in society as well as in organisations. Moreover, it has been
analysed that covid 19 has changed the way of working in companies. This is because there is
negative impact of covid 19 on employee mental and physical health. In every firm leader play
vital role in managing of staff. They also work with them in effective way by directing and
guiding them. hey are responsible for all the things such as guiding, training, motivating, etc. of
employee and attaining of goals in time. Without leaders organisation can not work and goals
are not accomplished. Alongside, they need to manage entire workforce as well. But in recent
time due to covid 19 it has become highly difficult for leader to manage work force. This is
because of fact that now new way of working is to be adopted in it. Besides that, use of
resources and HR has modified and this has affected on working in organisation. Also, there is
high impact on productivity as well of staff and due to that goals are not attained. The
organisation is not able to manage workforce due to shortage of employees. it is essential for
leader that they must manage and handle this critical situation in effective way. this is because if
not handled than it can led to ineffective working in company and leading to reducing its
efficiency as well (Zhou, and Wu, 2018).
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CONCLUSION
It can be summarised that covid 19 has changed way of working in organisation. There are
more precautions and safety measures taken by leader in managing staff and resources. Also,
leader are responsible for ensuring that all norms and guidelines are following while working.
Besides that, there is also decline in efficiency of staff and training is given by new methods.
Thus, there are several ways such as apply of new leadership style, performance management
system, training, etc. through which leader can deal with this approach.
Reflection
During my entire week activities i learned many new things. These all will help me in
my professional career and development. I have gained knowledge about various things as well.
in first week i learned about motivation, its types, benefits, etc. also, how motivation helps in
improving employee performance, what are extrinsic and intrinsic ways of motivation. In week
2 i got to know about what are corporate governance ethics, why it is followed and other things.
Furthermore, i gained knowledge about ethics as well and how it helps in building good brand
image of firm in market. Thus, i know how to write blogs, report, e mail and difference between
them. also, what needs to be included in all of them in order to make it professional.
Here, in this week I was given task to write about how covid 19 has changed way of
managing employees in organization. Besides that, I got to know that leader are responsible
for overcoming this challenge and ensuring that all new normal is adopted in it. moreover, I
learned that it has become difficult for leader to adopt and manage staff in business due to covid
19.. they are facing lot of pressure from management as well to manage workforce. Hence, I
gained info about different roles of leaders and how they perform it. along with that, I learned
that there are various types of leadership styles that is followed by leaders. They do this in order
to implement any change and ensuring that goals are attained as well. For using styles leader
must possess relevant traits and skills as well. Leader should apply flexibility practice approach
so that new normal way is applied and workforce is managed. I gained knowledge that leader
are main pillars of organization. It depends on them they how goals are to be achieved as they
guide and direct staff.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Anderson, M., 2017. Transformational leadership in education: A review of existing
literature. International Social Science Review, 93(1), p.4.
Baškarada, S., Watson, J. and Cromarty, J., 2016. Leadership and organizational
ambidexterity. Journal of Management Development.
Eva, N., and et.al., 2019. From competency to conversation: A multi-perspective approach to
collective leadership development. The Leadership Quarterly, p.101346.
Moldoveanu, M. and Narayandas, D., 2019. The future of leadership development. Harvard
Business Review, 97(2), pp.40-48.
Yunarsih, N., and et.al., 2020 Develop Leadership Style Model for Nurse in Indonesian
Hospital. Systematic Reviews in Pharmacy, 11(8), pp.352-361.
Zhou, F. and Wu, Y.J., 2018. How humble leadership fosters employee innovation
behavior. Leadership & Organization Development Journal.
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