Abstract
The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a public health emergency of international concern and poses a challenge to public psychological resilience. With regards to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations suddenly need to navigate the unprecedented, related effects on employee turnover issues. Furthermore, this dramatic change caused unprecedented profound implications not only on employees but also companies around the globe as a whole. Thus, the study drew on the factors that are related to turnover which are job insecurity and person-environment misfit. In this study, Conservation of Resources (COR) theory was chosen to provide a theoretical perspective in explaining the related factors with turnover intention. On the other hand, several drawbacks of turnover intention are also highlighted throughout the literature review. Some measures to address the turnover issues by the organizations are discussed.
Highlights
As of 10:46am, 26th July 2021, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused 193,798,265 confirmed cases, including 4,158,041 deaths worldwide (WHO, 2021)
Relationship between Person-Environment Misfit and Turnover Intention The COVID-19 pandemic poses a huge challenge to Human Resource Management that involves in drastically changing work conditions on new and current employees in the organization, such as shifting to “physical distancing and social distancing” work environment or revising and executing the company procedures and policies to limit human contact
A recent study on employment found that 21.1% of the employees in organizations expressed their fear of losing their job and felt job insecurity 51.9% of the employees believed that there is an opportunity of future job offer they were unpleasantly affected due to the COVID-19 (International Labour Organization, 2020)
Summary
As of 10:46am, 26th July 2021, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused 193,798,265 confirmed cases, including 4,158,041 deaths worldwide (WHO, 2021). In the reality of the modern working environment, feelings of uncertainty among employees is increasing due to various reasons including economic fluctuations, technological changes and political insecurity, and it is impossible to guarantee employees’ work stability as per before COVID-19 (Etehadi & Karatepe, 2019). This matter becomes a serious concern among employees. Employees must quickly adapt to remote work environment due to new norms and drastically change their former routine of which they spent most of their time working at their organization This situation has posed a great challenge to Human Resource Management to wisely manage this new work environment. Despite the effects of the economic recession, the current challenge of COVID-19 provides management and scholars with an opportunity to coordinate research and turn it into actionable insights to help organizations deal with one of the greatest challenges in modern history especially on handling the employee person-environment misfit and employee job insecurity
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