Impact of the three waves of COVID-19 pandemic on the HR practices of Hungarian organizations–Experience from an empirical study

Krisztina Dajnoki, Beáta Sz G Pató, András István Kun, Erika Varga, Arnold Tóth, Botond Géza Kálmán, Ildikó Éva Kovács, Szilvia Szabó, Katalin Szabó, Zoltán Majó-Petri, Lóránt Dénes Dávid and József Poór

PLOS ONE, 2023, vol. 18, issue 6, 1-22

Abstract: Over recent decades, the practice of human resource management in the transitional countries of Eastern Europe and in Hungary has changed significantly. Especially in local subsidiaries of foreign-owned companies and in the leading domestic large organizations, HRM has become a strategic function, while in the practice of small and medium-sized enterprises it is less common. COVID-19 hit companies, institutions and individuals unexpectedly, not only in Hungary but also in the more developed regions of the world. This crisis has also highlighted the fact that larger and better prepared organizations and public institutions have found it easier to weather this global human catastrophe. We analyze how the key tasks of HRM have changed during the successive waves, along four hypotheses. Initially, health protection, communication and home-office organization were the focus of the work of human resource professionals. In the second and third waves, securing and retaining staff became more important.

Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283644 (text/html)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id= ... 83644&type=printable (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:plo:pone00:0283644

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283644

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in PLOS ONE from Public Library of Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by plosone ().