True HR Way towards Envisioning Employee Confidence and Trust for Survival in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case of Trelleborg Sri Lanka

Abstract

Employee wellbeing is required to run a business at an optimum level. It follows that, employees’ physical, social, and emotional well-being, where each organization is required to focus on enabling employees’ physical and emotional well-being at their best (Burton, 2010). The case is aimed to provide a detailed report regarding the Trelleborg, Sri Lankan operation during the pre and post-Covid 19 pandemics to survive in the business continuity. As the Covid 19 emerged into the world at the end of 2019, it was actively making a turbulent environmental condition, where those conditions hit the global business in an adverse manner. Especially, for the labor market, the Covid pandemic was impacted adversely. Waddell and Burton, (2006) have mentioned that workplace complexity and modernization will impact employees’ well-being in positive and negative ways, whereas unemployment will be stressed the employees’ health and wellbeing as well. As the government also mentioned paying minimum wage to employees, private organizations also initiated such practices to reduce the cost impact on the business operations (ICRA Lanka Limited, 2020). Many governments around the globe, imposed various types of health and safety guidance to practice while continuing business operations in each country.