course : HRM 360: Manpower Planning and Forecasting

Task 5: Nurturing Culture for dispersed workplace- New Challenge for HR Workers and business leaders believe a strong and well-defined organizational culture is critical to long- term success. It sets the organization's identity, helps form its mission and gives employees at all levels a sense of identity and purpose in their work. But culture is also vulnerable in times of crisis when decisions are being made on the fly and financial survival takes priority over almost everything else. Moreover due to Covid-19 most of the organizations have opted to work from home, which leads to employee distance, and cause less participation of employees in organizational strategic plan. Although organizations are taking initiatives to arrange virtual meetings, webinar and video conferencing to connect employees on a regular basis but the result is still obscure. Hence, HR department is going to play a pivotal role in establishing new strategies to formulate a culture that enables employees to become more engaged while being working in a dispersed manner. So, one of the greatest challenge lies ahead of HRM is to find the answers on how to craft new organizational culture that will foster employee connectivity and engagement in this pandemic. Your tasks are: To study the actual situation in workplaces and identify what different sorts of restructuring strategies that organizations are considering regarding creating new organizational culture while working remotely. Critically evaluate the procedures that organizations are following to keep employees connected. Identify the potential challenges that HR department are facing in building this new work culture during this pandemic. Recommend suggestions for HR department on how to formulate new strategy or plan to build workplace culture, which will fulfill the contemporary demand caused by Covid-19.1