Personnel Review: Volume 52 Issue 6

Guest editorial: The changing role of HRM through crisis: from response to recovery

Eileen Aitken-Fox, Jane Coffey, Kantha Dayaram, Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen McKenna, Amy Wei Tian

How human resource managers can prevent perceived pandemic threats from escalating into diminished change-oriented voluntarism

Dirk De Clercq, Renato Pereira

For human resource (HR) managers, the harmful outcomes of employees’ ruminations about external crises, such as a pandemic, represent important, timely concerns. This research…

Neurodiversity and remote work in times of crisis: lessons for HR

Joanna Maria Szulc, Frances-Louise McGregor, Emine Cakir

The rich qualitative study builds on 11 semi-structured interviews with nine neurodivergent employees and two business professionals supportive of neurodiversity to understand the…

Delivering well-being through the coronavirus pandemic: the role of human resources (HR) in managing a healthy workforce

Kay Lisa Maddox-Daines

This paper examines how human resources (HR) professionals in the UK have supported employee wellbeing during the coronavirus disease (COVID) pandemic. It considers the extent to…

Exploring layers of context-related work-from-home demands during COVID-19

Laxmikant Manroop, Daniela Petrovski

This article identifies the contextual demands impacting the work from home (WFH) experience during the COVID-19 pandemic and considers their respective impact on employees'…

Can HRM predict mental health crises? Using HR analytics to unpack the link between employment and suicidal thoughts and behaviors

Rina Hastuti, Andrew R. Timming

The aim of this research is to determine the extent to which the human resource (HR) function can screen and potentially predict suicidal employees and offer preventative mental…

Making sense of a mess: “doing” resilience in the vortex of a crisis

Eileen Aitken-Fox, Jane Coffey, Kantha Dayaram, Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen McKenna, Amy Wei Tian

The purpose of the paper is to investigate how human resource professionals (HRPs), in a variety of organizations, responded to the crisis brought about by the event of COVID-19…