Priorities for HR managers amid the coronavirus crisis

As Africa contends with the Covid-19 virus and its global effects, human resource (HR) managers must rethink their people management strategies to maintain the delicate equilibrium between staff, welfare schemes and traditional stakeholder’s expectations, especially of profit and revenue.

HR managers will be expected to come out and advise both employees and employers on how to contextualise the situation to ensure a good understanding of organisation leadership, direction and disruption during a global crisis. We all appreciate that there are common global and standard HR practices that will apply across the board but certainly there are some distinct people management practices that HR practitioners need to emphasise on because of our diverse cultural practices.