Human Resource Management Practices Amid COVID-19 Crisis: A Case of Botswana Public Service

Abstract

This paper seeks to study the challenges of public sector human resource management during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the resultant opportunities as well as the implications these have on the directions of the organisations post pandemic. A desk top research was used, and data collection was carried out in different sources exploring the impact of the COVID-19 on human resource management. Organizations had to adapt very fast to disruptions caused by the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic in both the internal and external environment of organisations. That resulted in uncertainties amongst the workforce and posed immediate threats to organizations' performances and productivity while at the same time disrupting strategies, employee relations, staffing occupational health, training and career development, compensation management. However, organizations had to navigate through the unprecedented times and thereby find new solutions to challenges across the stated areas of the operations. This paper will unravel how most of the solutions became trends of the COVID-19 era for and glimpse how these HR trends will continue to drive transformation and which new trends are emerging to shape the future of work.