Introduction to People Management

Introduction to People
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
1. Contemporary issues which line management faces in people management in COVID-19. .3
2. Knowledge, skills and behaviours needed to be an effective people manager in this
epidemic......................................................................................................................................5
3. Efforts made by HR process and support management in effective performance
management................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFRENCES...................................................................................................................................8
Books and Journal:......................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
In the organisation, with managing operations and production there is need for people
management also. People management refers to how organisation employees behave, work,
abilities and what circumstances they are facing at workplace. People are need to be manage by
top authority in terms of their performance, working potential, motivation and welfare. Due to
COVID-19 crises, every organisation has facing operational issues and losses in terms of loosing
employees, maintaining interpersonal relations with them also by not fulfilling the need of proper
communication. This report is going to consider about he problem every UK organisation is
facing which impact on human resource function. What issues has been facing by line manger in
order to manage their workforce at this high crises also, how the mangers could be efficient to
reorganise its human resource into full efficient manner. The report also going to highlight the
efforts putting by employees towards organisation welfare. (Harris, 2017).
MAIN BODY
1. Contemporary issues which line management faces in people management in COVID-19
Line mangers are the one who are eligible to make connection between lower and
superior management. They act as a mediator in order to assign task to lower workforce or
checking on their performance. Employees at lower authority work under the surveillance of
these line managers. Line managers are imposed on duties to manage the employees working
under them which include checking the task has been done properly and help them to overcome
to their weakness by guiding them right way. These mangers also act as a conflict resolver into
their department and provide futuristic solutions so that, it will not arise it again at workplace.
These mangers also faces issues regarding proper management with affect by internal or
external factors. As in the present scenario, COVID-19 has impacted serious cause regarding
people management into the organisation, it reflects like every aspect has changes its way and
disrupted all the business environment (Murphy, 2020).
Issue in managing their mental health and well-being: In COVID-19 pandemic, every
individual has afraid of meeting and connecting with nay other person, as they prefer to be at
their safe place. This has reflected in lower the productivity of organisation as the employees are
not interested to come to workplace and making contact with nay other individual for their own
well being. This could be understand by the example of Unilever, the employees has distracted