Question

The coronavirus is hitting businesses and their employees. Some businesses are still open and millions of employees are working to serve customers. Some of the employees work in their workplaces while some others work from home. Almost all employees worry whether they will lose their jobs or if they will have a pay cut. It is obvious that unemployment will rise because millions of employees will lose their jobs and the remaining employees may have a pay cut (10, 20, 30, 50%) depending on the position in his/her workplace.

Because of the coronavirus, the business environment has started to change. It is becoming a challenging fast-changing environment. Currently, many managers are faced with difficulties. In the near future and in the long run, they will need to deal with important issues.

Lastly, you have to remember that one can easily manage firms during prosperous times but effective managers flourish during difficult times.

Below is a sample list of terms that you can use when answering the question

Job security and protection; Employee morale; Employee stress; Anxiety; Employee wellness; Effective decision making; Work performance; Key competencies; Productive employees; Quality of work produced; Work-life balance; Mental health; Employees in a high-risk health category; Illness; Government sector; Health sector; Security forces.

1-What should managers do to manage employees and minimize the negative effects of the coronavirus on employees? Discuss the major OB issues faced by managers when dealing with employees who are currently working and the major OB issues that managers need to handle in the near future.

Answer 1

The COVID 19 outbreak will affect out society as well as our business . to avoid covid 19 it is necessary to maintain social distancing and keeping social hygeine . the complete locking down will make organizations and businesses in trouble . hence to manage the total break down of the business ,organiztion should do works proactively , doing work at home itself or doing work with more security and with maintaining standards given by government .

• managers of the organization should definetly take adequate measures while employees are working .
• encouraging employees to work at home
• giving training for work at home practice
• female employees can give more concession because they are making the home and taking care of children etc ...so allowance given to them will make them encourage to work more hard .
• covid relief kits for workers of the organization
• give health insurance  

issues facing by manager during covid 19 period :

• quality issues during working at home .
• more money and time required for seperate training from work at home
• females can have limitations to meet the target .
• target based field jobs are under difficulty
• cannot able to maintain wellness of all employees
• technological problems may arise while working it will make the outcome quality to be low .
• software issues
• major decision making power to tackle the situation