ADMN-2058 (240902) Organizational Behaviour

  10 Trends that will affect the workplace post-pandemic By Shankar Raman The whole nature of employer-employee relationship has changed drastically as a result of COVID-19. Many employees are reconsidering on how they want to work while employers are trying to do their best to give all the support to the employees needs of a diverse workforce. This article identified 10 trends for business organizations that are having issues in a hybrid work setup. 1.      Hybrid work. During the pandemic, most people are working remotely, and productivity has increased. According to the 2020 Global Benefits Attitudes Survey, many people want to return to work in the office for two or three days a week because they feel disconnected from their coworkers and workplace. 2.      New purpose for the workplace. After the pandemic, offices or workplaces have evolved and become more of a function for collaboration for the employees rather than a quiet envi...

  The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on workplace culture By HR inspire COVID-19 have a lot of impacts and effects on workplace culture for most of the businesses across the world. Because of the pandemic, many organizations have discovered that it is possible to have a flexible schedule by allowing employees to work remotely from their respective homes while enjoying the work-life balance that everybody would love to have. As we overcome the pandemic, business organizations should carefully study which changes from the workplace culture they want to retain and the ones they want to eliminate. Social interaction is very significant in our everyday lives and plays an important role in expanding our connections and relationships. Before the pandemic hit us, many people were used to going to work either riding a car or using public transportation and enjoyed chatting with their co-workers in their workplace. But when the pandemic started, all of these were stopped, offices were ...

Has the Pandemic Changed Employee behavior for the Better? By Catherine Tansey When the COVID-19 virus struck the world, most of the conversations revolved around when will we return to our normal lives. As time went by, we slowly started to accept that there was no return on those previous times before the pandemic and that there would be a new normal for every aspect of our lives. One of the effects of COVID-19 on employee behavior that the internal and external researchers talk about is productivity. There are many different factors that affect worker productivity such as attitude, personality type, and the level of motivation. It also depends on what kind of industry it belongs to and if the organizations have done enough to improve their work management and employee engagement. One of the industries that did well in a work-from-home setup is those industries in the tech space. Other factors that contribute to increased productivity during a work-from-home setup are the ability...

The long-term effects of the pandemic: insights from a survey of leading companies By Eduardo Maqui and Richard Morris The article summarizes the results of the survey they did on how the leading euro area companies perceive the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their respective business. Aside from a short-term decline in economic activity before the pandemic began, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a lot of changes in how businesses operate and behave. Of all the respondents they asked to answer the survey, about 40% cited that the remote setup would have a long-term impact on their business. The second most long-term impact on the business would be the adoption of digital technologies and they are accelerating to adoption of these new digital technologies that would change the way they operate in the long term. And around one-fifth of the respondents cited the increase in virtual meetings and e-commerce. Based on the survey they did, most respondents also considered t...

How has the pandemic changed our behavior? By Kimberly Drake COVID-19 which keeps on evolving and results in many different variants is still felt almost everywhere in the world but with a smaller effect. Despite this smaller effect, the pandemic has caused a lot of lasting impact on every aspect of people’s lives. There are many impacts that we have experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic such as losing someone we love, losing our job, struggling to survive financially, and many more. One of the lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on everyone’s life is how it changed everyone's behavior. One of the effects of COVID-19 in terms of workplace behavior is the shift to remote work. During COVID-19, many organizations have focused on a work-from-home set up and many individuals have seen a positive effect of this kind of setup. Many business organizations conduct their meetings virtually because of the fear to get the COVID-19 virus and up to this day many organizations still do t...