Introduction to People Management during COVID-19

Introduction to People
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Contemporary issues faced by people management during COVID-19.....................................3
Knowledge, skills and behaviours are needed to be an effective people manager in this
epidemic......................................................................................................................................4
Endeavours made by human resource process and support management in order to enhance
the performance management ....................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFRENCES...................................................................................................................................7
Books and Journal.......................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
People management is considered to be one of the major roles of human resources in order to
plan, manage and control the activities and functions performed by the employees of the
organisation (Jyoti, 2019). The unexpected misfortune created several problems for each and
everyone. Eevn the sudden shift in work culture created a chios, which affected all over world
and thus, it has brought new challenges and endless issues. The top most concern of
professionals HR are to provide the right communication channels for them, various tools for
remote work and keeping all employees engaged. This report discusses about the issues faced by
the line mangers in the pandemic and the skills developed by the same to overcome the
prevailing changes and issues. It also details about the efforts made by the HR team in order to
promote the performance of the workforce in the organisation.
MAIN BODY
Contemporary issues faced by people management during COVID-19
Line managers can be termed as catalyst responsible for communicating the decisions,
procedures and policies set my the top management to the lower level management of the
business organisation. The organisation now have to rely and trust more than ever on their HR
departments in order to make sure their workforce feel as safe as possible during this unexpected
and unpredictable time. During the ongoing pandemic, the line managers of the business
organisations also faced numerous which impacted the overall functioning of the organisation.
Some of the relevant issues faces by them are mentioned below :-
Remote work management : One of the major issues faced by the line managers was to
handle the employees working from home (Cooke, Dickmann and Parry, 2020). The transition to
remote work culture is not as easy as it seems. According to studies, there were 50 percent
industries and organisations which already had a remote work policy. As banking sector and
other indutries did not enourged remote work, but now all are adopting and rushing to build
remote work strategies. This had revealed many undiscovered problems. HR mangers ar
continously trying to tackle this problem by creating seamless routes and strategies in order to
overcome these challenges that it brings. Management of remote work is not an easy task,
various difficulties such as ineffective work, poor performance, misinterpretation of the work
assigned, poor network connection etc. may arise due to the same and line managers are