Leading talent through the COVID-19 crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic originated in China in late 2019 which challenged the supply chains of every business since early 2020 (Keshky et.al, 2020). The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as global pandemic on 11 March 2020. Although the outlook for 2021 looks promising with the introduction of vaccines, the pandemic has resulted in continuous profound changes for countries, organizations and individuals. According to Leavitt’s proposed model of organizational change, organizations are made of complex interrelated variables such as human, task, technology and structure (Hartmann & Lussier, 2020). The correlates of human variable are people which relates to number of employees, employee knowledge, competencies, personalities and other attributes. The task variable relates to the activities performed within organizational capacity (D’Auria et. al, 2020). These include marketing, sales, procurement of raw materials, production, financing operations, hiring and managing ...