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<p>The pandemic situation associated with the Covid-19 disease has changed people's lives and significantly affected the functioning of companies and organizations. Managers of industrial companies faced a new situation and had to look for new solutions to the problems that arose. Employees were forced to get used to new conditions and adapt not only to new private along with new work situations caused by the pandemic. The success of any organization depends on its employees, which is why a high-quality human resource management was important also in the pandemic situation. The aim of the article is to interpret the results of research aimed at identifying priorities in the field of human resource management in terms of the situation before and during the pandemic as well as the priorities that will dominate after the return to the standard work regime. The collection tool was a questionnaire distributed online. As many as 70 managers and specialists from industrial companies in Slovakia took part in the questionnaire survey. The obtained data were evaluated through descriptive statistics, in the form of graphs and tables. The results can be useful for practice of industrial companies in the field of setting priorities, or evaluating and comparing the situation in the field of human resource management before and during the pandemic as well as after the return to the standard work regime.</p>
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The pandemic situation associated with the Covid-19 disease has changed people's lives and significantly affected the functioning of companies and organizations. Managers of industrial companies faced a new situation and had to look for new solutions to the problems that arose. Employees were forced to get used to new conditions and adapt not only to new private along with new work situations caused by the pandemic. The success of any organization depends on its employees, which is why a high-quality human resource management was important also in the pandemic situation. The aim of the article is to interpret the results of research aimed at identifying priorities in the field of human resource management in terms of the situation before and during the pandemic as well as the priorities that will dominate after the return to the standard work regime. The collection tool was a questionnaire distributed online. As many as 70 managers and specialists from industrial companies in Slovakia took part in the questionnaire survey. The obtained data were evaluated through descriptive statistics, in the form of graphs and tables. The results can be useful for practice of industrial companies in the field of setting priorities, or evaluating and comparing the situation in the field of human resource management before and during the pandemic as well as after the return to the standard work regime.

The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Human Resource Management Priorities

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava

Research Papers Faculty of Materials Science and Technology Slovak University of Technology

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The pandemic situation associated with the Covid-19 disease has changed people's lives and significantly affected the functioning of companies and...

The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Human Resource Management Priorities

Published Online: Jun 30, 2023

Page range: 40 - 47

Received: Feb 13, 2023

Accepted: Mar 27, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rput-2023-0005

Keywords
Areas of human resource management, Covid-19, industrial companies, human resource management

© 2023 Natália Vraňaková, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Human Resource Management Priorities

Published Online: Jun 30, 2023

Page range: 40 - 47

Received: Feb 13, 2023

Accepted: Mar 27, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rput-2023-0005

KeywordsAreas of human resource management, Covid-19, industrial companies, human resource management

© 2023 Natália Vraňaková, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Areas of human resource management, Covid-19, industrial companies, human resource management