HR Planning for Crisis Management

Athamneh, Seif

doi:10.5772/intechopen.75233

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“…Organizations that truly care about the health and safety of their employees have a significantly higher chance of long-term success compared to organizations that only care about processes, infrastructure, and legal regulation (Athamneh, 2018). The unpredictable spread of COVID-19 means that circumstances and instructions are changing on a daily basis and HR departments need to provide an adequate answer to them.…”

Section: Employee Health and Safety: Research Results And Discussionmentioning

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Leadership role of the human resources department in crisis situations: The case of COVID-19 pandemic

Lukić¹,

Lazarević²,

Jaganjac³

2022

Strategic Management

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The paper points out the leading role of the HR department in crisis situations, with special emphasis on the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which affected the whole world in early 2020. Regardless of the intensity and form in which they occur, crises threaten the functioning and survival of organizations. The HR department is an important factor in the successful functioning of organizations and, in a period of crisis, this department takes a leading role in the process of crisis management and subsequent recovery. During COVID-19 pandemic, the HR department of every organization had to confront new challenges in order to protect the health of employees, while ensuring the normal functioning of organizations. In order to find out how this department dealt with crisis that occurred, empirical research with a specially designed questionnaire was conducted and filled in by 108 respondents from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia in 2020. The research results showed that HR department has taken a leading role in preserving the health and safety of employees, as well as in the process of adapting organizations to function in crisis conditions. According to results, the key activities carried out by the HR department in organizations are work from home (wherever the nature of the work allowed), flexible working hours, reorganization of the working space to achieve the required physical distance between employees, improved hygiene measures, etc. In addition, the research results showed that, during the global COVID-19 pandemic, the HR departments took an active role in providing psychological assistance to employees to adapt to new conditions and ways of working.

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Section: Employee Health and Safety: Research Results And Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Leadership role of the human resources department in crisis situations: The case of COVID-19 pandemic

Lukić¹,

Lazarević²,

Jaganjac³

2022

Strategic Management

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“…The authors spelled out the five stages of crisis signal detection, planning and mitigation, damage control and containment, business recovery, reflection, and learning, as well as the complex abilities needed to navigate each stage successfully (Table 1). The four layers of preparation global, organizational, job-level, and individual-level-that a Human Resource Business Partner can implement to strengthen crisis management capability inside an organization were outlined by (Athamneh, 2018). The report put out a framework and specified specific approaches to dealing with each level, but it does not refer to how implementation will be carried out.…”

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The Role of the Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) Manager in Dealing with Economic Crises in Organizations in the Public Sector in Israel

Qassoom¹

2023

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This article sought to develop an understanding of the Human Resource Business Partner (HRBP) manager's role in addressing economic crises in Israeli public sector businesses. Understanding the HRBP's role in addressing the economic crisis in Israel has been one of the critical goals. Results have also supported the idea that HRBP managers share rather than own business strategy and vice versa(Cavusgil, Knight, & Riesenberger, 2020). The results verify that the execution of the HRBP function has been a critical aspect of integrating HR with the business at the Authority for National-Civic Service in dealing with economic crises. However, the change in focus from HRBP assistance to business partnering highlighted in this thesis also indicates that the reinvention of HRBP is typically a continual and fragmented process, both in the literature and in practice(Storey, Ulrich, & Wright, 2020). As a result, the HRBP post at the Authority for National-Civic Service comprises a high level of individualism. It is affected by professional and contextual criteria, such as seniority and the specific business unit under which it acts. Finally, the HRBPs at the Authority for National-Civic Service can reach the position of trusted advisers and perform mainly on a strategic level, even with individual and contextual variances recognized. The business partners have a crucial role in boosting overall HR performance, so continuing focus on creating and sustaining interactions with managers and HRBP professionals in other areas is encouraged(Youndt, Snell, Dean, & Lepak, 2019).

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“…It is a key component of "workplace innovation". The active participation of employees refers to the possibilities of employee participation in decisions that affect their work, either in their direct work (e.g., division of labor) or in relation to broader corporate issues (organizational participation) [12].…”

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“…Training is essential during a crisis [12]. The current survey that was conducted in eleven companies from the food sector of Central Greece reveals that the training programs adopted in their organization contribute to their efforts to manage the challenges of economic crisis.…”

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Business Strategies in HR in Times of Crisis: The Case of Agri-Food Industry in Central Greece

Ragazou

2021

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Crisis, in whatever form it takes, is a challenge for modern business. The challenge lies in the fact that a company is prepared to balance the difficult conditions that are created, while preserving their business interest and efficiency. Thus, companies focus only on their perceived fixed bases, those that are in the internal environment such as the human capital. The need for better human resource management is more urgent than ever, and the burden on the business department is particularly great. The aim of this qualitative research is to highlight the strategies that were developed by agri-food companies in Greece and contribute to the maintenance and motivation of employees in the context of economic crisis. The methodology of this study is based on in depth interviews that were conducted in focus group discussion. Eleven companies from the agri-food sector in the region of Central Greece participated in the research. The executives highlighted three different strategies that were developed by agri-food companies in Greece, which focused on internal mobility, training and appraisal performance. Companies had to face different difficulties to use these strategies, but most of them proved that they can face their weaknesses and apply these strategies in a turbulent period like a financial crisis.

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HR Planning for Crisis Management

Cited by 12 publications

References 3 publications

Leadership role of the human resources department in crisis situations: The case of COVID-19 pandemic

Leadership role of the human resources department in crisis situations: The case of COVID-19 pandemic

The Role of the Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) Manager in Dealing with Economic Crises in Organizations in the Public Sector in Israel

Business Strategies in HR in Times of Crisis: The Case of Agri-Food Industry in Central Greece

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