...Ana Laura de Freitas Visentini; Jorge Renato de Souza Verschoore Purpose Grand challenges like COVID-19 demand collaboration, but effective collaboration hinges on governance. Collaborative governance convenes diverse actors for consensus-driven decisions, a process complicated by inherent...

...Nikolaos Varotsis; Naoum Mylonas; Theodore Tsekeris Purpose Following the COVID-19 pandemic, teleworking was widely applied in many organisations, providing new work experiences for employees and creating a new work environment in the meta-pandemic era. This study aimed to examine the impact...

..., right to work, social security, representation at work, social dialog, meaningfulness of work and workplace equality. Furthermore, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified concerns around job opportunities, job security, adequate earnings and social security. Both employers and government...

...Muneeb Arshad; Muhammad Saleem Sumbal; Muhammad Naseer Akhtar; Shazia Nauman Purpose The study aims to understand the challenges of effective employee utilization in construction projects during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in a developing country and to develop mitigation...

...Leena Sachdeva; Lalatendu Kesari Jena; Gaurav Kumar Badhotiya; K.M. Baharul Islam; Bahaudin Ghulam Mujtaba; Suchitra Pal Purpose This study aims to conduct an extensive bibliometric analysis of research across COVID-19 and human resource management (HRM). It captures an exhaustive conceptual...

...Sofia Panagiotidou; Dimitrios Mihail; Anastasia A. Katou Purpose This study, based on signaling theory, examines the pre-recruitment employer branding strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic. It investigates the relationship between spontaneous word-of-mouth (WOM) recommendations for companies...

...Almina Bešić; Christian Hirt; Zijada Rahimić Purpose This study focuses on HR practices that foster employee engagement during Covid-19. Companies in transition economies are particularly vulnerable to crisis and downsizing and other recessionary practices are frequently used. Design...

...Begoña Urien; Amaya Erro-Garcés Purpose The swift and unanticipated integration of telework by European companies due to COVID-19 gave rise to distinct features of telework. These attributes underscore the necessity of analysing its impact on employees’ well-being. This paper explores how telework...

...Rasha Kassem; Fotios Mitsakis Purpose This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health and wellbeing of academic and professional Higher Education (HE) staff in the UK. Design/methodology/approach A mixed-method survey questionnaire was sent to almost 300 UK HE...

... and Slovakia in relation to these variables. Originality/value This research has the potential to shed light on how the alignment between individual values and organizational values impacts employee well-being, particularly within the context of volatile periods such as the COVID-19 pandemic...

... of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts a two-stage longitudinal qualitative approach involving 52 interviews with owners and HR managers of Chinese SMEs in the pre- and post-pandemic time periods. Findings The findings reveal a shift from...

...Mani Pillai Purpose As every day work is central to people's lives and events serve as significant contextual factors, examining what impact the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic restrictions had on knowledge workers warrants further investigation. The author's research question...

... (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Remote work Psychological detachment Recovery strategies COVID-19...

...Shahina Javad; Priyanka Nema; Nimit Chowdhary Purpose During the COVID-19 pandemic, many working mothers in India adopted involuntary telecommuting work option for the first time. However, no research explored their adjustments and experiences in the new work setting. This paper aims to gain...

...Mihai Stelian Rusu; Adela Elena Popa; Livia Dana Pogan; Giorgian Ionut Gutoiu Purpose Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the issues related to job insecurity became even more prominent than before. This paper sets out to identify the determinants of job insecurity in the context of the COVID-19...

...Arosha S. Adikaram; N.P.G.S.I. Naotunna Purpose This paper aims to explore how Human Resource Management (HRM) practices were adopted to implement and manage remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic and identify whether and how remote working would/should continue in the future, in a developing...

...Noa Nelson; Noa Doron; Shachaf Amdur Purpose The study tested the effects of gender on negotiation initiation in three topics: salary, work-role and work-home balance; and on employee's perceptions of Covid-19 as inhibiting or enhancing negotiation initiation in these topics. Design/methodology...

... during COVID-19 in the Egyptian soap and detergents industry. Design/methodology/approach Using a cross-sectional survey, the authors collected data from 373 frontline workers and supervisors working at ARMA soap and detergents (ASD) factories. In-depth interviews were conducted with 14 production...

... The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic required employees to work extensively from home. This situation has increased interest in fundamental questions regarding the well-being and commitment of remote workers (e.g. Abdel Hadi et al., 2021 ; Charalampous et al., 2022 , Kundu et al...

...Luis Cárdenas; Paloma Villanueva Purpose This study aims to analyse the institutional changes in the Spanish labour market in the light of the measures introduced to support workers during the COVID-19 crisis. Applying the theoretical framework the authors’ hypothesis is that the labour policy...