Abstract

The COVID-19 outbreak has hit the logistics industry like never before. How to effectively cope with the challenges brought by public health emergencies has become an urgent problem for major logistics enterprises. As a labor-intensive industry, the human resource management of logistics enterprises has become an essential and important part of their operation and management process, which is directly related to the healthy, sustainable and stable development of logistics enterprises and the maximization of social and economic benefits at the lowest cost. Therefore, logistics enterprises must establish advanced concepts of human resource management and take reasonable and effective measures in combination with their own problems in this outbreak, so as to enhance their core competitiveness.

Highlights

  • The 2020 COVID-19 is a double-edged sword for all enterprises: it breaks our inherent stable mode of survival, which makes people suffer a certain spiritual and material impact, and at the same time, it makes people soberly realize that they are always in a complex and changing environment, and the rule of “survival of the fittest” still applies, only the self! Iteration is the only way to move into the future

  • How to effectively cope with the challenges brought by public health emergencies has become an urgent problem for major logistics enterprises

  • This paper briefly introduces the representative methods of emergency human resource management in Western countries and introduces the experiences of representative Western countries in emergency human resource management

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Introduction

The 2020 COVID-19 is a double-edged sword for all enterprises: it breaks our inherent stable mode of survival, which makes people suffer a certain spiritual and material impact, and at the same time, it makes people soberly realize that they are always in a complex and changing environment, and the rule of “survival of the fittest” still applies, only the self! Iteration is the only way to move into the future. While strengthening the construction of emergency logistics system and improving the supply chain management, the logistics enterprises seldom paid attention to the human resource management of emergency logistics. In the face of the crisis, the organizational structure began to be exposed, senior managers are full of worry and anxiety, at this time the human resources department to take the initiative to promote company change, so that the company through the systematic reengineering to survive and develop. As the main body and pillar of the emergency logistics, emergency logistics personnel can be efficient management often becomes the key to deal with sudden safety and health events. The current emergency logistics personnel team construction still exists a lot of problems, the need to continue to improve the development. How to build a professional and efficient emergency logistics talent team, become the logistics enterprises and even the whole society have to consider the important issue

Literature Review
Overview of Research on Human Resources under Emergency Logistics
Research Design and Methods
Low Level of Information Management in Enterprises
Limited Quality and Mobility of Employees
Potential Labour Shortages
Blocked Information Exchange and Inefficient Management
Imbalance between Supply and Demand of Logistics Professionals
Recommendations and Insights
Establishment of the Crisis Response Leadership Team
HR Should Focus on Digitizing the Enterprise
Promote Structural Change in the Company’s Human Resources
Human Resources Departments Should Coordinate People Well
Multiple Efforts Are Needed to Solve the Talent Problem
Findings
Conclusion
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