Engaging Employees during COVID-19 Lockdown

Abstract

Today, the organizational work culture is changing with the worldwide pandemic of COVID-19. HR managers are continuously evolving innovative, creative, inventive and effective ways to engage the employees more healthily during this difficult time. The paper is to determine the engagement of employees by various organisation during COVID-19 pandemic. Organizations nowadays are constantly developing innovative and effective means to engage the employees during this tough time. This paper is a conceptual paper that is based on various research papers, articles, blogs, online newspapers, and reports of World Health Organization. During this pandemic situation, many organisations are  now implementing employee engagement practices such as virtual team meetings, virtual learning and development, weekly alignment, online sessions, webinars with industry experts, webinars for anxiety and stress, online team building activities, online family engagement practices, brainstorming, apology, and online appreciation sessions, and shared content such as online books, online courses, live sessions for new-skill training, online communication exercise, online sharing best practices for maintaining health and hygiene, digital classrooms training modules, e-learning modules, online guidance for exercise and meditation, online recognition and acknowledgment of employees, online employee feedback, short online game session, virtual office and many more. These kinds of engagement practices boost the employees’ morale, and employees feel motivated and committed towards the organization in this COVID-19 pandemic situation.