Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the importance of the HRM “Human Resources Management” in organizations and companies
especially with the new challenges raised by Coronavirus.
Employees need to be supported more than ever especially with the uncertain future and the high possibility of losing jobs or salary
deduction. So, employers start depending more on their HR department to obtain the right HR strategy which could face the new
challenges.
Therefore, this article spots the light on the different problems caused by COVID-19 pandemic such as the increasing unemployment rate,
the salary deduction, the psychological impact of COVID-19 on employees, managing the remote work, the working hours, tensions
between employees and the social distance.
The problem faced by HR professionals is when applying a new HR strategy to adapt with the different challenges caused by
coronavirus, the new practices are not fitting to all employees.
For example, many families face big difficulties between staying with the kids at home during school shut down because of the
pandemic of COVID- 19 and going to their work or managing the remote work while their kids at home. So HR strategy could not be ideal
for them.
This article shows the importance of the HR flexibility in applying HR strategy and practices especially with the different
circumstances of each employee may face because of the COVID-19 pandemic
