Human Resource Management & COVID-19: Balancing Safety, Security, Sustainability, and Survival

The COVID-19 crisis has created multiple paradoxes that firms have to manage: how to balance the safety of their employees with the employees’ economic security or how to balance the need for short-term survival with the desire for long-term sustainability. This 45-minute session will discuss how organizations have sought to face these dilemmas and show how students can be led to consider the tradeoffs in making organizational decisions affecting their employees.

Speakers: Patrick M. Wright, University of South Carolina, and John R. Hollenbeck, Michigan StateUniversity,authorsofFundamentalsofHumanResourceManagement, 9e&Human Resource Management, 12e.