Resilience against crises: COVID-19 and lessons from natural disasters

Sakurai, Mihoko; Chughtai, Hameed

doi:10.1080/0960085x.2020.1814171

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“…According to some researchers, the COVID-19 crisis and natural disasters have much in common, as the emotions and behavior they cause are based on the same primal human emotion—fear [ 22 ]. Both pandemics and natural disasters disrupt people’s everyday lives and may have severe economic, social and psychological consequences [ 23 ]. However, despite many similarities to natural disasters, COVID-19 is a unique situation—only in 2020, the current pandemic has taken more lives than the world’s combined natural disasters in any of the past twenty years [ 24 ].…”

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The challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and the way people deal with them. A qualitative longitudinal study

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The conducted qualitative research was aimed at capturing the biggest challenges related to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The interviews were carried out in March-June (five stages of the research) and in October (the 6th stage of the research). A total of 115 in-depth individual interviews were conducted online with 20 respondents, in 6 stages. The results of the analysis showed that for all respondents the greatest challenges and the source of the greatest suffering were: a) limitation of direct contact with people; b) restrictions on movement and travel; c) necessary changes in active lifestyle; d) boredom and monotony; and e) uncertainty about the future.

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The challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and the way people deal with them. A qualitative longitudinal study

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic has similarities with natural disasters, both of which significantly disrupt social and organisational practices and call for resilience in society [ 26 , 27 ]. In disaster literature, resilience refers to ‘the capacity of a social system (for example, an organisation, city, or society) to proactively adapt to and recover from disturbances that are perceived within the system to fall outside the range of normal and expected disturbances’ [ 28 , 29 ].…”

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Resilience, vulnerability and adaptability: A qualitative study of COVID-19 lockdown experiences in two Henan villages, China

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Background The Chinese government’s early handling of COVID-19 has been perceived as aggressive and oppressive. Many of the most radical measures were adopted in Henan province, immediately north of Hubei, the pandemic’s epicentre in China. However, little is known about how rural residents—a group systematically disadvantaged in Chinese society—responded to authorities’ draconian restrictions. Methods To understand the lockdown measures and rural community responses at the grassroots level, face-to-face interviewers were conducted with both village cadres and villagers from two Henan villages in May and June 2020. The interviews were analysed with qualitative content analysis methods, with the coding process guided by the concepts of resilience, vulnerability and adaptability from the literature on disaster risk reduction. Results We found that the lockdown measures were indeed radical and disproportionate relative to the level of risk presented; however, they were largely accepted by villagers. This contradiction can be explained by two key contributing factors: (i) shared interests of individual villagers and the converged goal of government and civil society, and (ii) tacit flexibility in COVID-19 adaption strategies to tackle conflict resulting from goal diversion between citizens and local governments. Conclusions These findings highlight the nuances of ground-level politics. Despite their ‘radical’ nature, the lockdown measures were not implemented as simple top-down coercion. Instead, they involved, importantly, the bottom-up, localised response of villagers, and they were negotiated and adapted according to local circumstances.

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“…The pandemic has severely impacted society with social distancing, community lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, self-imposed or mandatory quarantines, closed borders, travel bans, and varying degrees of business constraints as well as increased need for medical care ( Gössling, 2021 ). Just like all other industries, the pandemic hit the hospitality industry quickly when the world economy suddenly was shut down ( Sakurai & Chughtai, 2020 ). However, the hospitality industry is one of the industries most affected as the pandemic has had severe effects, with many constraints on how they do business, resulting in far-reaching effects such as temporarily closed hotels, mass unemployment in the sector, and fast-changing restrictions from governments ( Gössling, 2021 ).…”

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Between hope and despair sensegiving and sensemaking in hotel organizations during the COVID-19 crisis

Högberg

2021

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management

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The COVID-19 crisis has had a severe impact on the hospitality industry and its actors. In a very short period of time, hotels were shut down or lost most of their bookings, faced huge financial losses and went into crisis mode. During the pandemic, the hotel industry has struggled with ever-changing restrictions which have had large effects on the industry as a whole as well as on organizations and individual employees. There are obviously challenges for both leaders and followers in the hospitality industry related to this worldwide crisis. The aim of this paper is to study how leaders practice sensegiving and how employees make sense of the changed conditions during the COVID-19 crisis in hotel organizations. The following research question is asked: How do leaders practice sensegiving and how does the process of sensemaking among employees evolve over time? Data were collected in five hotels in Sweden, Norway and Denmark from March 2020 to April 2021 by conducting in-depth interviews with hotel managers and employees. A sensegiving and sensemaking approach was used as an analytical lens. The findings illustrate a reciprocal process of making sense of the crisis between leaders and followers. Furthermore, the results show that the pandemic blurred boundaries between private and professional life that had effects on both the sensegiving and sensemaking processes. To the author’s knowledge, few studies have focused on the interplay between leaders’ sensegiving practices and followers’ sensemaking process during crisis. Furthermore, few studies have investigated sensemaking at all in the hospitality industry.

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Resilience against crises: COVID-19 and lessons from natural disasters

Cited by 87 publications

References 60 publications

The challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and the way people deal with them. A qualitative longitudinal study

The challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and the way people deal with them. A qualitative longitudinal study

Resilience, vulnerability and adaptability: A qualitative study of COVID-19 lockdown experiences in two Henan villages, China

Between hope and despair sensegiving and sensemaking in hotel organizations during the COVID-19 crisis

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