1PhD Research Scholar, Royal Global University, Guwahati (Assam), India, ashim.sarmah@rediffmail.com
2Assistant Professor. Royal School of Business, Royal Global University, Betkuchi, NH-37, Guwahati (Assam), India, pchaudhuri@rgu.ac.in
Online published on 15 July, 2021.
Crisis management has not been taking seriously by human resource development (HRD) even after crisis impact on both individuals and organization has been already well-identified in different researches. The role of HRD during the crisis was reborn due to the sudden impact of Covid-19 worldwide. The role of HRD during Covid-19 pandemic is in peakespecially for the engaging workforce for remote work, social distancing at a workstation, employee well-being, employee engagement & retention, compensation & financial benefits, promotion, dependability on virtual world and technology etc. This paper is trying to identify the role of HRD in the context of Covid-19 crisis.The objective of this research is to identify the new role of HRD during the crisis and improve crisis management. Due to limitation of time, research data is considered from secondary sources like different websites publications, journals, research papers etc. Covid-19 is just a recent crisis and thus there is limited research on its impact and many scopes for future research with individual organizations for their HRD crisis management policy considering primary data.
Crisis management, Remote work, Employee well-being, Employee engagement & Retention, Dependability on the virtual world and technology
