Employee adjustment and well-being in the era of COVID-19: Implications for human resource management

By Joel B. Carnevale, Isabella Hatak. Journal of business research, 2020

1,042 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Today’s organizations have to remain alert and adaptive to unforeseen events, such as external crises, which create increased uncertainty among their workforce and pose immediate threats to the organizations’ performance and viability. However, with the recent COVID-19 pandemic, organizations suddenly have to navigate the unprecedented and thereby find new solutions to challenges arising across many areas of their operations. In this article, we discusses some of these challenges, focusing on the implications COVID-19 has for human resource management (HRM) as organizations help their workforce cope with and adjust to their newly altered work environment. In addition, we propose several avenues for future research and advocate for an integrated research agenda for tackling the challenges discussed.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Economics and Econometrics, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/9841d24e7176857d3a89698c6d33ac1d628305a5

Citations in the corpus

• COVID-19: The effects of job insecurity on the job engagement and turnover intent of deluxe hotel employees and the moderating role of generational characteristics (2020, neutral): “Uncertainty of employment in these industries, which has been increased by the virus, therefore poses an immediate threat to organizational performance and viability—an unprecedented situation that requires the hospitality industry to seek a variety of solutions (Carnevale and Hatak, 2020).”