HRM and COVID-19: Annotated Bibliography on Challenges & Changes

This annotated bibliography examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Human Resource Management (HRM) practices. It covers various aspects such as the shift to remote work, the increased focus on employee wellbeing, and the challenges faced by HR professionals in adapting to new organizational needs. The bibliography highlights research on the agility, creativity, and flexibility required of HR during the pandemic, as well as the importance of digital technologies and online training. It also addresses the negative impacts, including increased stress and isolation among employees, and the need for new policies and procedures to support remote work. The role of HR in maintaining employee motivation, engagement, and safety during this period is emphasized, with a focus on adapting HR strategies to fit diverse employee needs. Desklib offers more solved assignments for students.

Assessment 1 Annotated
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
Effect of COVID-19 on practices of HR.....................................................................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Covid -19 is a situation where it becomes difficult for the organisation to proceed and
complete their HR practices into result oriented form. In this critical situation, there are different
departments which have been impacted by the pandemic situation and among them the human
resource department is very critical to adopt(Agarwal., 2021). The effect of Covid-19 has
impacted the practices of HR on a very large scale due to which their performance has degraded
into negative terms.
MAIN BODY
Effect of COVID-19 on practices of HR
The impact of COVID-19 on HR practices: A support-centered frontier, 2022 [Online] Available
through:<https://www.hrdive.com/news/the-impact-of-covid-19-on-hr-practices-a-support-
centered-frontier/603056/>
With the effect of pandemic of COVID-19, it has been observed that people suffer from
different diseases such as depression, anxiety and other mental health problems due to which the
human resource department people can't give their positive results to the organisation in terms of
proper growth and development as well(The impact of COVID-19 on HR practices: A support-
centered frontier, 2022). According to the HR research it has been surveyed that the company
has added the mental health support because the pandemic situation has become very critical for
them in order to remain happy and satisfied from their job role(Carnevale and Hatak., 2020). For
resolving the problems, the HR professionalsmay spend their whole day like for developing the
practical; programs in the infrastructure of staff of the company that can help them to be open
and also free with mental health discourse.
Impact of Covid-19 on HR practices and future workforce,2022 [Online] Available
through:<https://hr.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/impact-of-covid-19-on-hr-
practices-and-future-workforce/75653859/>
In the lock down scenario, there are three major attributes which has been demonstrated
by the HR which includes agility, creativity and flexibility as well.

In this pandemic situation, when permission have been given for businesses to operate
themselves from work from home basis then they totally depends on digital technologies which
is beneficial for further growth and development of an organisation. Laptops, data cards and
other support system has also been provided in order to work effectively and efficiently as well.
This pandemic situation has given major emphasis on an aspect of human connect due to which
the function of HR get enhanced into positive terms(Impact of Covid-19 on HR practices and
future workforce,2022).The function of HR has geared up themselves into the aspect of
providing communication on protocols of safety, hygiene practices, list of healthcare centres,
emergency numbers, guidelines for quarantine s well as isolation as well. For helping the people,
there are many organisations who have taken initiative for setting up the classes on the online
basis in order to handle the stress into effective manner(Collings and et.al., 2021). HR plays a
very significant role in this period of time while delivering in terms of keeping the employees
more motivated, engaged, safe and productive as well. It implies that hiring shall have on the
tech-savy pupil who have capability to perform better in terms of digital work place. Skilling and
training is also based on the online mode.
The impact of Covid-19 on human resource management: avoiding generalisations,2022
[Online] Available through:<https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2020/05/22/the-impact-of-
covid-19-on-human-resource-management-avoiding-generalisations/>
According to the survey, it has been observed that the among the negative impacts there
are certain respondents who are from social assistance and healthcare who reported about the
positive impact. There are many respondents who move towards the remote working and most of
them retain the staff without the use of government subsidies(Kniffin and et.al., 2021). It has
been observed that organisation have been impacted by the performance and productivity level
and also there is requirement of new systems, procedures and policies for the remote
working(The impact of Covid-19 on human resource management: avoiding
generalisations,2022). During this period of time , there are many HR professionals whose
significance has increased in the organisations as they seek to make agile and effective
adaptations as well. From the HR perspective, the remote working has not being suited by every
kind of employee because every body has their own nature of working.

When human resource professionals were making changes in the way of working and
certain kind of policies then there are certain employees or people who respond into positive
context and also act into helpful manner as well.
Human resource management and the COVID-19 crisis: implications, challenges, opportunities,
and future organizational directions, 2022 [Online] Available
through:<https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-management-and-
organization/article/human-resource-management-and-the-covid19-crisis-implicationchallenges-
opportunities-and-future-organizationaldirections/6857481FD64558659EE4C17C6DAE9AB9/>
Managers and HRM have been observed to face numerous obstacles during pandemic
situations, and they must ensure that employees working from home have the required tools to
accomplish their jobs. Remote working needs the use of specific solutions such as Zoom,
Microsoft remote desktop, Microsoft team, and team viewer, which are not affordable to all
types of businesses, and financial capacity differs from one to the next. (Human resource
management and the COVID-19 crisis: implications, challenges, opportunities, and future
organizational directions, 2022). They must also guarantee that this component of working from
home is handled properly, including appropriate communication, assistance, supervision,
performance monitoring, and compensation adjustment (Ngoc Su and et.al., 2021). HR
professionals must pay attention to the fact that remote working can contribute to employee
isolation. Many HRM practitioners have been found to have incorporated certain types of
activities, such as generating virtual socialisation activities, such as virtual lunch or coffee
breaks.
How COVID-19 Changes the HRM Practices (Adapting One HR Strategy May Not Fit to
All),2020 [Online] Available through:<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?
abstract_id=3736719/>
The COVID-19 has basically revealed the significance of human resource management in
the organisation and companies specially into the context of new kind of challenges which has
been raised by this critical situation. In this uncertain future, employees have to be more
supportive so that they can do their work into effective manner.

In this situation, employees start more depending on the HR in order to obtain new kind
of HR strategy who can face these new challenges into effective manner. Due to pandemic
situation there are lots of problems which has been caused where mostly people have lost their
jobs, unemployment rate has increased, salary deduction and also need to manage the work on
the remote basis(How COVID-19 Changes the HRM Practices (Adapting One HR Strategy May
Not Fit to All),2020). The main problem is that when new HR strategy has been implemented
then it cannot be adopted into positive framework and can't be fitting into all the employees who
are working at the organisational level(Vnoučková., 2020). On the basis of work from home
there are lots of families who have to face various kinds of problems in managing their personal
and professional life as well.
CONCLUSION
The above stated report concludes that the impact of COVID-19 on the HRM practices
somewhere have positive and negative results were there. It has been concluded that there are
different practices which are favourable for the employees but there are certain practices which
has not comes out into the favourable terms. It has been determined that people have to face
various kinds of problems in terms of remote working due to which it becomes challenging for
them to work into coordinated manner so that they can manage their both professional and
personal lives as well. At the time of pandemic situation, the role of HR has become more
significant due to which they have learnt different kinds of practices and new strategies as well
into the result oriented form.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Agarwal, P., 2021. Shattered but smiling: Human resource management and the wellbeing of
hotel employees during COVID-19. International Journal of Hospitality Management,
93, p.102765.
Carnevale, J. B. and Hatak, I., 2020. Employee adjustment and well-being in the era of COVID-
19: Implications for human resource management. Journal of Business Research, 116,
pp.183-187.
Collings and et.al., 2021. Strategic human resource management and COVID‐19: Emerging
challenges and research opportunities. Journal of Management Studies.
Kniffin and et.al., 2021. COVID-19 and the workplace: Implications, issues, and insights for
future research and action. American Psychologist, 76(1), p.63.
Ngoc Su and et.al., 2021. Enhancing resilience in the Covid-19 crisis: lessons from human
resource management practices in Vietnam. Current Issues in Tourism, 24(22),
pp.3189-3205.
Vnoučková, L., 2020. Impact of COVID-19 on human resource management. Revista
Latinoamericana de Investigación Social, 3(1), pp.18-21.