Abstract:
The unanticipated coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has hit global business
heavily, disrupting the management of human resources across numerous industries. More than
500 articles (indexed in Scopus and the Web of Science) on the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak
on emerging human resources issues and related practices were published from 1 January 2020 to
31 January 2021. In this study, we conduct a systematic literature review on emerging studies in the
business and management field to explore what the emerging human resource issues are during the
COVID-19 pandemic and propose related practices to solve these issues. The analysis of the published
literature identifies nine main human resource issues across 13 industries. The findings of this study
suggest that COVID-19 has enormous impact on conventional human resource management and
requires the theoretical and empirical attention of researchers. The propositions nominate related
human resource practices to deal with emerging human resources issues and identify several research
venues for future studies in this field
