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Workforce or employee productivity is an appraisal of the competence of an employee or group of Employees by measuring the value or output they generated over a particular period of time. Usually, the productivity of an Employee or worker will be measured relative to an average for employees performing similar kind of works because a major part of the Organizational success relies upon the productivity of its Employees, So Workforce productivity and its evaluation is an important consideration for all type of businesses. Humans can perform excellent work when they are deliberate, focused, and, most importantly, free from interference. Categorizing Productivity obstacles and constraints is important because it can help you quickly understand which group requires the most attention in your company. In addition, some groups are more manageable than others. Apart from various internal and external distractions and work life balance which are already hampering employee’s productivity at the Outbreak of Covid- 19 helps turning it even worse than ever. One of new Challenge includes the versatility of the workforce today. The second one includes emergence of a rapid shift towards remote working, lack of connectivity, Work life balance issues, Infrastructural barriers in Work from Home, Mental pressures, Health crisis etc. When working practises become more distant or hybrid in the aftermath of the COVID19 pandemic, the central challenge for businesses is how to sustain and boost this competitiveness at the workplace of the future. This uncertainty suggests that employers should continually review and adapt their strategy to help serve their people's health and well-being, particularly when needs change as the situation begins to change.
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Employee Productivity Research paper COVID 19
- 1. A STUDY ON EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY IN THE WAKE OF COVID-19 Hamid Hameed MBA Student, Mittal School of Business, Lovely Professional, University, Phagwara, Punjab Priyanka Chhibber Assistant Professor, Mittal School of Business Lovely Professional, University, Phagwara, Punjab Abstract: Workforce or employee productivity is an appraisal of the competence of an employee or group of Employees by measuring the value or output they generated over a particular period of time. Usually, the productivity of an Employee or worker will be measured relative to an average for employees performing similar kind of works because a major part of the Organizational success relies upon the productivity of its Employees, So Workforce productivity and its evaluation is an important consideration for all type of businesses. Humans can perform excellent work when they are deliberate, focused, and, most importantly, free from interference. Categorizing Productivity obstacles and constraints is important because it can help you quickly understand which group requires the most attention in your company. In addition, some groups are more manageable than others. Apart from various internal and external distractions and work life balance which are already hampering employee’s productivity at the Outbreak of Covid- 19 helps turning it even worse than ever. One of new Challenge includes the versatility of the workforce today. The second one includes emergence of a rapid shift towards remote working, lack of connectivity, Work life balance issues, Infrastructural barriers in Work from Home, Mental pressures, Health crisis etc. When working practises become more distant or hybrid in the aftermath of the COVID- 19 pandemic, the central challenge for businesses is how to sustain and boost this competitiveness at the workplace of the future. This uncertainty suggests that employers should continually review and adapt their strategy to help serve their people's health and well-being, particularly when needs change as the situation begins to change. Most of the companies have adopted E- training and E leadership to survive in the wake of corona.So here in this study I try to find out the employees Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research Volume XIII, Issue II, February/2021 ISSN NO: 0022-1945 Page No:697
- 2. productivity in the wake of Covid -19 and how the employers can change their approach in order to agile with this situation by ensuring Employee productivity. Keywords: Employee productivity, Motivation, Work from Home, Covid- 19, E-training I Introduction The coronavirus pandemic which initially started in December, 2019 in Wahan, China and turned to be one of the most scary diseases and huge concern which the world is experiencing. The coronavirus pandemic has affected every aspect of our lives from social to business and from business to education and from education to many more aspects. The pandemic has changed many things temporary and many more permanently and will be impossible to get normal. In the beginning of the pandemic many people started facing a lot of health problems and many lost their lives. Beside, human causalities many lost their businesses, jobs, money, joy, happiness and social interaction. The covid led almost all countries to close their cities for business, entertainment and enjoyment in order to prevent from spreading of the viruss which will take big time to recover and still some cities are shut due to the pandemic. The pandemic caused huge losses to business and to bear the financial losses and survive for long time many companies has changed their working style from office mode to home mode. Though remote working was known before coronavirus, nowadays remote working is so much common due to the pandemic of covid 19 but turning to remote working style is accompanying with many disruptions such as, technology, communication, productivity, work life balance, proper workplace and many more. II REVIEW OF LITERATURE Many experiments have focused on one or two methods of calculating efficiency and Productivity of employees, and because many different techniques have been implemented, it can be difficult to compare outcomes (Nollman, 2013). Totally, there is a lack of an efficient and standardised method to calculate the productivity of workforce. As the performance of a company depends primarily on the efficiency of its workers, employee productivity has also become one of the foremost business priorities (Cato & Gordon, 2009; Gummesson, 1998; Sharma & Sharma, 2014).According to a study conducted by Sharma and Sharma (2014), the workforce productivity Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research Volume XIII, Issue II, February/2021 ISSN NO: 0022-1945 Page No:698
- 3. is mainly dependent up on the timespan that an employee is physically present at their office/workplace, in addition to the extent that he / she is "mentally present" or is functioning successfully during a workplace presence. Companies should resolve these problems in order to achieve a high productivity of workers. Cato and Gordon (2009) have showed that aligning the corporate strategy with employee productivity is a crucial contributor to the performance of the company. As a result, this alignment will empower and encourage workers to be more innovative and eventually enhance their efficiency to meet corporate goals and objectives (Morales et al., 2001; Obdulio, 2014) .According to a study conducted Dr.Amir Elnaga, Amen Imran (2013) by This research mainly focuses on the role of training in improving employee efficiency. Education plays a crucial role in developing the skills of both new and existing workers to successfully carry out their jobs. It also prepares workers to hold a potential position in a completely competent company and helps to resolve shortcomings in any sector relevant to work. The study summarized that training has Positive effect on employee results. Productivity of workforce can be measured by comparing to the work done by an individual over a particular period of time. Usually, with workers doing comparable jobs, the efficiency of a particular job would be measured according to an average. It can also be measured on the basis of the number of units of the good or service that the employee handles within a given period (Piana, 2001)As per Ravichandran, Venkataraman and Banumathy (2011) concluded that businesses should conduct annual performance evaluations to increase employee productivity and include reliability, communication skills and skills growth training to improve the quality of management of employees. It presents the value of employee growth programmes, the value of human capital investment, and the challenges of employee development. The paper found that the employee performance will affect the organisational effectiveness so it must give utmost importance. . Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research Volume XIII, Issue II, February/2021 ISSN NO: 0022-1945 Page No:699
- 4. III Importance of study In this study I am going to cover the most important issue which is productivity during convid- 19. Productivity of employees is enormously important for organizations for the sake of profit special in the time of the pandemic. How we can keep the same pace of productivity during covid- 19 and what we can do to recognize the factors which can affect the productivity of our employees? We will study about the quality of working during the pandemic and whether the employees are motivated or not about their current job environment and conditions. Work from home simply means remote working and being at home and complete the tasks which has been assigned to you by your organization. Nowadays it is quite famous expression and we can say it is the only reason why some organizations are able to make money and are able to survive IV Objectives of Study: • To study the effect of covid-19 on employee productivity. • To understand the factors motivating employees during the pandemic. • To conceptually recognize the impact of Covid-19 during pandemic V. Interpretation and Observation Study the effect of covid-19 on employee productivity Covid-19 is sort of dangerous disease which spread from Wahan, China to whole world and hampered all the developments and caused many organizations to shut their doors and due to this pandemic many lost their lives According to Rolloos(1950s) employees productivity is that which people can produce with least effort. Employees productivity shows how much employees are using the resources effectively and efficiently to gain desired result. Employees productivity is vital for every organization Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research Volume XIII, Issue II, February/2021 ISSN NO: 0022-1945 Page No:700
- 5. because it leads to creation value and earing of profit which is quite important for survival of company and via that they can be competitive in respective industries Every successful business understands the importance of productivity in the organization. By having productive workforce in the workplace any organization can easily reduce organizational expenses which will to more profit. Productive employees can make massive changes to the organization by simply utilizing the resources more effective and efficiently which will definitely lead to growth and capturing new market opportunities. But as covid-19 has affected every aspect of our professional and personal life it has affected the productivity of organizations as well. After the spread of pandemic almost all organizations asked the employees to start their working from home. At the first glance, it was sudden change and utterly dependent on technology which some has difficulty in using it and that hamper the productivity of employees. After sometimes the organizations which understood the need to change they made huge amount of money and the one which failed to understand the need to changes borne big losses. To understand the factors motivating employees during the pandemic Motivation is all form of hope, desire, and drive to work(Oren, Tziner, Nahshon& Sharoni, 2013). Motivation can be both intrinsic and extrinsic sometimes we are feeling motivated because of our internal factors such as our personality, values and desires and mostly we are motivated because of external factor like the environment, family, friends and situation. Motivation leads to high productivity. The pandemic caused almost all organizations to shut their doors and stay at home and has been affected employees and which forced them to work from home. The sudden changed from social working environment to isolated working environment led them to struggle and feel alone. In such situation the employees need to help and motivate them to overcome the time of uncertainty and stress. Since, the situation is totally different and we all experience it for the first time and during the pandemic along with the monetary reward non-monetary reward paly major role for sustaining healthy working environment along with the productive employees. As a suggestive node E- training is the way which the organizations delivers lecture to the employees via virtual means in order to enhanced their skills, knowledge and expertise for the sake of high productivity. Because Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research Volume XIII, Issue II, February/2021 ISSN NO: 0022-1945 Page No:701
- 6. of the pandemic most of the employees are working from home and using technology for performing the tsk and may they are not familiar with some of them that is why there is need for E- learning. This can be one of the leading factor for motivation of employees. To conceptually recognize the impact of Covid-19 during pandemic In order to have high productivity in the workplace working condition can be significantly important because great working condition can lead to high moral and productive employees. During the pandemic the proper working condition can help employees to reduce stress, anxiety and uncertainty and can enhance the well-being of the employees. Hence, in the pandemic it is quite important to take care of employees well-being by creating proper working conditions for them. V Recommendations and suggestions ❖ Working from home with new availability technology is quite tough and challenging. Accessibility of technology is highly demand to complete the job. They need laptop, internet, software, cell phone and most importantly the ability to use it properly ❖ Creation of working atmosphere is too important in order to give them the feelings of being at the office and to be far away from the disturbance in order to not hurt the feeling and productivity. ❖ Proper schedule of working must be made like office working hours from 9-5 or 8-4 in order to help them to fulfil their social needs as well. ❖ The organizations must provide the employees E training and learning opportunities in order to continue their works swiftly with the same pace and productivity. ❖ To gain competitive advantage during the pandemic there is need for effective Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research Volume XIII, Issue II, February/2021 ISSN NO: 0022-1945 Page No:702
- 7. ❖ Communication among all levels of management is required so to get that task done before the deadlines. Conclusion Remote working is the notion which will be in our professional life for ever and the present crisis of corona has approved the working from home concept can help the companies minimize the cost, maximize the profit, to be more competitive and survive in the era of certainties. It has profit and productivity benefits to organization if they manage it effectively and efficiently. In the crisis of covid 19 work from was the best option which has been chosen by many organizations. References ❖ Authors :Michel Zaitouni, Mohamed Laid Ouakouak( 2018)- Research paper Published on: International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management Title: The impacts of leadership support and co-workers support on employee creative behaviour- ❖ Cato, S. T., & Gordon, J. (2009). Relationship of the strategic vision alignment to employee productivity and student enrolment. Research in Higher Education Journal, 7, 1-20. ❖ Gummesson, E. (1998). Productivity in service operations. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 10(1), 4-15 ❖ Piana, V. (2001). Productivity. ❖ Retrieved from: http://www.economicswebinstitute.org/glossary/prdctvt.htm ❖ Employee Employer relationship in gig economy: Harmanzing and consolidating labour regulations and safety needs o Author(s): Doina Popescu LJungholm Subject(s): Labor relations, ICT Information and Communications Technologies Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers o Retrieved from: https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=686156 Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research Volume XIII, Issue II, February/2021 ISSN NO: 0022-1945 Page No:703
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