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NCAB9 Nikodemus Hans SW
NCAB9 Nikodemus Hans SW
2. Stressors
Work demand versus non-work demand
Forcing
HR Practices HR Practices: Focal Responsibilities
Factors
Assessment of the current situation and its
HR planning
*Crisis due to consequences to all HR functions
Covid-19
Conducted virtually; only some elements should be
pandemic
Recruitment & conducted as usual; refining the recruitment/selection
selection *Hard challenge, methods to improve their effectiveness; candidates’
extremely personal traits may be important to assess
difficult situation
•
Employee-supervisor perspectives on how to
*Flexible measure performance
workforce • Supervising on the goal/result of tasks, i.e.,
Performance
when & how to do is less assessed
management *Digitalization
• If the 360-degree evaluation method is not
possible (i.e., costly), a two-rater method can
be applied
Red marks → ones most suggested to HR Managers to focus
Ideas for HR Practices #1
• Emphasizing internship
*Crisis due to
• Close employee-supervisor daily interaction
Covid-19
pandemic • Improving skills to promote job sharing
Learning &
among employees
development *Hard challenge, • Self-management skill training
extremely difficult
situation • Trainings related to business digitalization
• Self-directed knowledge seeking
*Flexible
Providing job security and horizontal movement
workforce
(rather than a promise of moving upward);
Career planning *Digitalization opportunity for learning wider things to cope with
more complex work situation (more subjective
career success rather than objective one)
Ideas for HR Practices #2
Forcing
HR Practices HR Practices: Focal Responsibilities
Factors
Any methods, for example, ranking method,
classification method can be good as it can strongly
Job evaluation
link the jobs and their contributions to the
*Crisis due to organization
Covid-19
pandemic • Mutual FAIRNESS (to the employee,
Rewards among employees, and to employer)
*Hard • Based on unit/organizational performance
challenge,
extremely Deeper communication between company and labor
Industrial relations difficult union to cope with the current situation, i.e., survival
situation and success
*Flexible • Very mandatory, when most tasks done
workforce virtually
Employee • Employees’ participation and the
*Digitalization
participation and communication with their supervisors
communication related to the task goals are a must
• AVAILABILITY within work hours (during
WFH)
Ideas for HR Practices #2