Assessing changes in human resource management to achieve strategic objectives during COVID-19

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted humanity both in a negative and positive way. This study is important seeing that this pandemic has caused mayhem to livelihoods and organisations and presents challenges as well as offering some deep thinking for business leaders and departments of human resources to change the way they do business and live their personal life amid the pandemic. In most organisations, strategic human resource management has always been very important for the success of their businesses. This is so because it concerns the vertical alignment and relationship between functions and components of people management and the strategy of the business with the goal to empower human resources so that they can perform in the manner that is headed towards achieving the strategic needs of the organisation.
The researchers chose a qualitative research approach so that direct responses could be obtained from participants. A descriptive qualitative research design guided the study. This design is meant to obtain information in a way that helps the researcher to systematically deal with the current study by helping to answer the what, when, where as well as the how questions with regards to the research problem, as opposed to answering only the why question.