Abstract:
With the dramatic change due to the Coronavirus disease 2019 which is the latest
precarious catastrophe in which all human beings are suffering, most of the
employees are psychologically distressed. It is required to investigate the
psychological condition ofemployees and provide occupational approaches for the
psychological resilience of the employee. Hence, the purpose of this study is to
identify stressors by Corona of human resources and suggest implications from the
human resource management perspective to build the psychological resilience of
employees. A comprehensive literature review is used as the method for this study
and recently published 25 articles in Emeralds, ResearchGate, Sage, Google Scholar,
and Semantic Scholar and web sites of health care institutions are selected. Search
criteria include the stress of employees, employee distress during COVID-19, and
psychological burden of employees due to Coronavirus. As the findings of the
study, ten stressors are identified, including economic inequality, remote work,
infobesity, unknown & uncertain, addiction, “always-on” lifestyle, domestic burden,
presentism & risk of infection, ideal worker, and professional stigma. Further, the
study suggests ten human resource implications to manage stress by Coronavirus to
buildemployee resilience. This study contributes to the existing body of knowledge
in human resource management by conceptualizing ten stressors owing to
Coronavirus and policy level implications are given through suggested human
resource strategies.
