Featured Paper: Human resource management and the COVID-19 crisis (2021)

This comprehensive review explores how the pandemic fundamentally shook organizational structures and forced HR practitioners to find ingenious solutions for business continuity.

: HR practitioners were viewed as "first responders," moving from administrative roles to responsive change agents.

: A study by Dutta (2021) titled "Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment" became a key reference for how HR departments began automating talent acquisition during the remote hiring surge. Human resource management and the COVID-19 crisis - PMC

: To identify the unknown challenges and unusual decisions HR had to make during the peak of the pandemic. Key Findings :

One of the most significant academic contributions that year was by Gigauri (2021), published in the International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications and archived on PubMed Central (PMC) .

In 2021, the Human Resources landscape was heavily defined by the shift to post-pandemic work models, the "Great Resignation," and the rapid acceleration of HR technology.