Risk and Resilience on Employees During COVID-19 Pandemic

Risk and Resilience on Employees During COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: Laksmi Rahmadian
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
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Introduction/Main Objectives: This study aims to review the employee's risks and resilience during COVID-19 pandemic. Background Problems: COVID-19 pandemic brought tremendous impact, psychological and economically, across countries. To what extent employees around the world are able to adapt to the changes at the workplace and families? Novelty: This study discusses employee resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic in various countries around the world, so that it can contribute to efforts to increase resilience for organizations and employees. Research Methods: We conducted a systematic review on scientific articles reporting risks and resilience on employees during COVID-19 pandemic. We used the following keywords on Google Scholar database: “employee resilience” AND “COVID-19” and additional keywords “workers resilience” AND “COVID-19”. Finding/Results: Initial search resulted 84 articles but after a thorough selection, 13 articles matched criteria for review. We found that employees were at risks for increased workload and intensity, psychological changes, emotional exhaustion, distress, and job insecurity. Individual and organizational resilience are challenged. At the organizational level, company may adapt their CSR, develop intervention programs and well-being, create flexible working hours, provide financial supports, and creating a safe and supportive work environment. At the individual level, applying effective coping strategies focusing on tasks, stress management, social, cognitive strategies, faith-based learning activities, and promoting meaning-based coping strategies help to build resilience. Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic challenged individual and organizational resilience. Leaders play pivotal role on helping employees managing their resilience.

COVID-19: Systemic Risk and Resilience

COVID-19: Systemic Risk and Resilience
Author: Igor Linkov
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2021-04-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3030715876

This book aims to provide a collection of early ideas regarding the results of applying risk and resilience tools and strategies to COVID-19. Each chapter provides a distinct contribution to the new and rapidly growing literature on the developing COVID-19 pandemic from the vantage points of fields ranging from civil and environmental engineering to public policy, from urban planning to economics, and from public health to systems theory. Contributing chapters to the book are both scholars and active practitioners, who are bridging their applied work with critical scholarly interpretation and reflection. The book's primary purpose is to empower stakeholders and decision-makers with the most recent research in order that they can better understand the systemic and sweeping nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as which strategies could be implemented to maximize socioeconomic and public health recovery and adaptation over the long-term.

Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience

Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience
Author: Indrajit Pal
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2022-05-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0323994369

Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience: COVID-19 Responses in Cities Around the World examines the pandemic’s global impacts on public health, economies, society and labor. The book shows how COVID-19 intensified natural and anthropogenic hazards and destroyed years of communities, governments and the work of development organizations and their investments. It focuses on how disaster resilience is central to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals in a post-COVID-19 era. Sections cover current governance practices, with special attention given to Asia’s more successful responses. It shows how the various sectors across that society were most impacted by COVID-19, including tourism and food systems. This book is an essential reference for researchers and practitioners who need to understand response, preparedness and future pathways for pandemic resilience. Showcases risk governance at local, national and regional scales Captures multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral insights through numerous case studies Uniquely addresses, in a comprehensive and structure manner, risk governance methodologies

Risk Management in Crisis

Risk Management in Crisis
Author: Piotr Jedynak
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2021-08-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000457265

Risk management is a domain of management which comes to the fore in crisis. This book looks at risk management under crisis conditions in the COVID-19 pandemic context. The book synthesizes existing concepts, strategies, approaches and methods of risk management and provides the results of empirical research on risk and risk management during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research outcome was based on the authors’ study on 42 enterprises of different sizes in various sectors, and these firms have either been negatively affected by COVID-19 or have thrived successfully under the new conditions of conducting business activities. The analysis looks at both the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the selected enterprises and the risk management measures these enterprises had taken in response to the emerging global trends. The book puts together key factors which could have determined the enterprises’ failures and successes. The final part of the book reflects on how firms can build resilience in challenging times and suggests a model for business resilience. The comparative analysis will provide useful insights into key strategic approaches of risk management. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003131366/ has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Individual and Organizational Vulnerability and Resilience Factors in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Individual and Organizational Vulnerability and Resilience Factors in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: Barbara Hildegard Juen
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2023-10-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 283253631X

Vulnerability and resilience are concepts that have long been treated as individual and contradicting topics. In recent times, we have seen that vulnerabilities and resilience can go hand in hand and that vulnerabilities cannot be conceptualized only in simple terms because intersectionality must be considered as well as social, organizational, and systemic aspects and processes. One example is that women are more vulnerable (higher values in nearly all stress related measures) in the COVID-19 pandemic. This finding has to be analyzed from an intersectional perspective, because socio-economic factors, cultural factors, exposure to COVID-19 and the type of occupation (e.g. healthcare sector, frontline workers) play an important role in how vulnerable or resilient women can be in a given society. The large number of studies on COVID-19 vulnerabilities makes it necessary to take a closer look at the resilience factors that often go hand in hand with potential vulnerabilities. As we see in the literature about pandemics in general and COVID-19, there are some individual, organizational and systemic vulnerabilities that can be found in all pandemics. From that we can assume that there will be resilience factors within the same concepts that may buffer vulnerabilities.

Burnout While Working

Burnout While Working
Author: Michael P. Leiter
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2022-12-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000824470

This book offers an extensive look into the ways living through the COVID-19 pandemic has deepened our understanding of the crises people experience in their relationships with work. Leading experts explore burnout as an occupational phenomenon that arises through mismatches between workplace and individuals on the day-to-day patterns in work life. By disrupting where, when, and how people worked, pandemic measures upset the delicate balances in place regarding core areas of work life. Chapters examine the profound implications of social distancing on the quality and frequency of social encounters among colleagues, with management, and with clientele. The book covers a variety of occupational groups such as those in the healthcare and education sectors, and demonstrates the advantages and strains that come with working from home. The authors also consider the broader social context of working through the pandemic regarding risks and rewards for essential workers. By focusing on changes in organisational structures, policies, and practices, this book looks at effective ways forward in both recovering from this pandemic and preparing for further workplace disruptions. A wide audience of students and researchers in psychology, management, business, healthcare, and social sciences, as well as policy makers in government and professional organisations, will benefit from this detailed insight into the ways COVID-19 has affected contemporary work attitudes and practices.

Handbook of Research on Strategies and Interventions to Mitigate COVID-19 Impact on SMEs

Handbook of Research on Strategies and Interventions to Mitigate COVID-19 Impact on SMEs
Author: Baporikar, Neeta
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2021-06-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1799874370

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every aspect of the modern world, and its impact is felt by all. The pandemic particularly has had a large impact on businesses as they were forced to close, supply chains were disrupted, and new health and safety precautions were adopted. As such, many businesses, especially small businesses, were faced with losses they could not afford. Governments and stakeholders across the world have thus needed to formulate various strategies and interventions to mitigate the negative consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly as they relate to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The Handbook of Research on Strategies and Interventions to Mitigate COVID-19 Impact on SMEs is a comprehensive reference source that encapsulates the overall effect of COVID-19 on SMEs and a variety of strategies to overcome the negative effects and create more sustainable policies and organizations moving forward. The book offers a thorough overview of interventions and tactics to help organizations, entrepreneurs, and institutions of higher learning overcome the negative impact of COVID-19 while preparing policies for a more effective post-pandemic world. Covering topics that include sustainable practices for development, interventions to lessen the impact of COVID-19, and psychological resilience for SME employees, this book is Ideal for entrepreneurs, managers, executives, small businesses, family firms, academicians, scholar-practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and students.

Economic Resilience and Pandemic Response

Economic Resilience and Pandemic Response
Author: Agnieszka Rzepka
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2024-08-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1040099424

The COVID-19 pandemic upended our social and economic lives. Lockdowns forced firms to implement health and safety protocols, employees to work from home, and businesses of all sorts to close. Even as lockdowns eased, the landscape of work, commerce, leisure, and education was irrevocably transformed. While in many ways life has returned to normal, many of the changes wrought by the pandemic are here to stay. This book presents research on these transformations, examining how the economy and society were impacted. Organizing different aspects of the pandemic into individual chapters, this book examines issues such as financing structures, liquidity, profitmaking, investment, financial security, and market valuation, among other topics. Reflecting deep research as well as an extensive review of the literature, each chapter provides not just theoretical and empirical insight but also a set of policy recommendations to insure against similar crises in the future. Encompassing a range of case studies, it outlines strategies for dealing with the manifold challenges of today’s business environment. This book showcases the development of particular sectors over the course of the pandemic, and as such, serves as a valuable study, enabling a comprehensive analysis of topics ranging from economics to social dynamics. It provides a deep understanding of this unique period's wide-ranging challenges and transformations and underscores the central economic concern of the pandemic's effect on economic security, a topic discussed throughout several chapters. Furthermore, it includes a discussion on the broader scope of “polycrisis". This volume was designed to appeal to a wide range of readers interested in economics, management, regional studies, and related fields.

Societal Transformations and Resilience in Times of Crisis

Societal Transformations and Resilience in Times of Crisis
Author: Shoukat, Ghazala
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2022-09-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1668453282

The COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the world and left turmoil in every facet of society in its wake. As in-person activities came to an end for public safety, businesses closed, classrooms scrambled to transition online, and society was forever changed. As the pandemic comes to a close, it is essential that researchers take this opportunity to study the changes that have occurred so that society may revive what has been lost and promote resilience should another crisis arise. Societal Transformations and Resilience in Times of Crisis focuses on the revival of societal institutions after events such as natural disasters, pandemics, political turmoil, and global crises, and looks toward building more resilient structures. It contributes novel approaches and provides implications for countries to improve the social system through novel approaches. Covering topics such as employee psychological distress, democracy, and higher education institutions, this premier reference source is a dynamic resource for government officials, community leaders, non-governmental organizations, students and faculty of higher education, sociologists, business executives and managers, human resource managers, researchers, and academicians.