Organizational Culture and COVID‐19 Spicer, André
Journal of management studies,
December 2020, 2020-12-00, 20201201, Letnik:
57, Številka:
8
Journal Article
Messy Europe Loftsdóttir, Kristín; Smith, Andrea L; Hipfl, Brigitte
2018., 2018, 2018-02-15, Letnik:
32
eBook
Using the economic crisis as a starting point, Messy Europe offers a critical new look at the issues of race, gender, and national understandings of self and other in contemporary Europe. It ...highlights and challenges historical associations of Europe with whiteness and modern civilization, and asks how these associations are re-envisioned, re-inscribed, or contested in an era characterized by crises of different kinds. This important collection provides a nuanced exploration of how racialized identities in various European regions are played out in the crisis context, and asks what work “crisis talk” does, considering how it motivates public feelings and shapes bodies, boundaries and communities.
The COVID-19 pandemic is bringing about immediate, wide-ranging, and severe challenges for many B2B sales forces. Such challenges call attention to the importance of frameworks that can be applied to ...aid sales managers in understanding the impact of and responses to COVID-19. Leavitt's model of organizational change, and socio-technical systems theory, point to the importance of considering four inter-related social (i.e., human and structure) and technical (i.e., task and technology) variables when examining organizational change, and recognizing that change to one variable can be predicated upon and/or bring about change to other variables. We tailor Leavitt's model to the B2B sales context and recognize the potential for exogenous shocks such as COVID-19 to impact each variable. In doing so, we conduct a review of practitioner-oriented articles, interviews with key informants working for B2B organizations, and a webinar with sales professionals. These efforts lead to a rich discussion and set of considerations that can help B2B sales forces better understand and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and other crises.
•The COVID-19 pandemic is leading to substantive change within many B2B sales forces.•To understand and implement sales force change, managers should consider human, task, structure, and technology variables.•Change to one variable can be predicated upon and/or bring about change to other variables.•Change to these variables brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic is discussed.•The COVID-19 pandemic creates rippling change throughout time, creates opportunities, and has an unclear bottom.
The objective of this collection of essays is to gain insights into the different national-level state responses to COVID-19 around the world and the conditions that shaped them. The pandemic offers ...a natural experiment wherein the policy problem governments faced was the same but the responses they made were different, creating opportunities for comparison of both the kinds of policy tools being used and the factors that accounted for their choice. Accordingly, after surveying on-line databases of policy tools used in the pandemic and subjecting these to topic modelling to reveal the characteristics of a 'standard' national pandemic response, we discuss the similarities and differences found in specific responses. This is done with reference to the nature and level of policy capacity of respective governments, highlighting the critical roles played by (in)adequate preparation and lesson-drawing from past experiences with similar outbreaks or crises. Taken together the articles show how the national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic were shaped by the opportunity and capacity each government had to learn from previous pandemics and their capacity to operationalize and build political support for the standard portfolio of policy measures deployed to deal with the crisis. However, they also show how other factors such as the nature of national leadership, the organization of government and civil society, and blindspots towards the vulnerabilities of certain population segments also helped to shape policy responses to the pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic is the major influence on the Tourism Management. Airline Industry is another major concern with unprecedented challenges. This research discusses topics in the area of crisis ...management with specific reference to contribute to the Strategic Plans for the Airline industry by employing an approach supported by qualitative analysis in the form of in-depth interview. This paper examined how two airlines in Thailand had coped with challenges affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The respondents were 8 managers from two different airlines operating at the Suvarnabhumi airport during September- October 2021 to investigate the strategy and the effectiveness of the strategy. The paper then proposes strategic guidelines for the management in the Airline industry. The paper concludes that crisis cannot be stopped but the impacts can be limited by the application and extension of crisis management plans. Insights can help organizations in sectors in Tourism to respond to current situation and drive business to speedy recovery after Covid-19.
Organizational research has long been interested in crises and crisis management. Whether focused on crisis antecedents, outcomes, or managing a crisis, research has revealed a number of important ...findings. However, research in this space remains fragmented, making it difficult for scholars to understand the literature’s core conclusions, recognize unsolved problems, and navigate paths forward. To address these issues, we propose an integrative framework of crises and crisis management that draws from research in strategy, organizational theory, and organizational behavior as well as from research in public relations and corporate communication. We identify two primary perspectives in the literature, one focused on the internal dynamics of a crisis and one focused on managing external stakeholders. We review core concepts from each perspective and highlight the commonalities that exist between them. Finally, we use our integrative framework to propose future research directions for scholars interested in crises and crisis management.
Governments worldwide are relying on the COVID-19 vaccines as the solution for ending the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting crisis. Although scientific progress in the development of a vaccine ...has been astonishing, policymakers are facing an extra hurdle as increasingly more people appear to be hesitant in their intention to take such a vaccine. Based on a large Corona survey in Belgium, this study aims to explain the vaccination intention by linking it to trust in government and experts, while accounting for individuals’ risk perceptions and prosocialness.
The defining characteristic of 2020 is life interrupted. Countries around the globe are impacted by wholescale stay-at-home orders, looming economic collapse, heightened public attention to systemic ...racism, and associated protests. Even as global events create immense disruptions for individuals, these events also necessitate responsive actions from public and private institutions. In this Dialogue essay, we argue that the current crises emphasize the need for public organizations to sustain relationships by infusing communication efforts with empathy. Using an organizational theory approach of crisis management, we argue for the importance of focusing on governance legitimacy in times of crisis and highlight three communication strategies public organizations can use to strengthen relationships and improve crisis management performance.
COVID-19 has had an impact on many areas of life, including education. This study aims to determine the role of leaders in learning policies in the COVID-19 crisis at SMAIT Al-Fityan School Gowa, ...South Sulawesi. This study uses a qualitative method. While the data collection using the method. The results showed that the stages of crisis management at SMAIT Al-Fityan School Gowa during the COVID-19 pandemic went through the following stages: crisis management planning included providing health education literacy by placing posters on how to wash hands properly in school corners; provide sink facilities for school residents to wash their hands before eating; and organize sports together for all school staff of Al-Fityan School every Wednesday. Then the management phase during the crisis includes the process of preventing and handling COVID-19 and policies to support the learning process. At the management stage after the crisis with the renewal of learning media and evaluation of learning outcomes.
COVID-19 brought the global tourism industry to a standstill. In response, various tourism stakeholders adopted innovative approaches such as virtual tours (VTs) to keep their attractions firmly in ...the minds of potential visitors. This study has integrated the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Protective Action Decision Model (PADM) models to determine the factors that affect a person’s decision to adopt VTs as temporary alternatives during times of crises. Data were collected from a sample of 401 respondents after they had experienced at least one of the VTs simulating Egyptian heritage sites. The results show that the antecedents of the TAM and PADM models are effective in predicting users’ intention to adopt VTs and that adoption intention has a positive impact on the tendency to visit the actual site. In addition, practical implications are provided for site managers to consider when opting for VTs as a promotional tool or as an alternative product during times of crisis.
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