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Thesis Topic: Insight into Business Management’s Views and Challenges on the Impact of Covid-19 Global Pandemic, (Its Consequences on American and Nigerian Labour Market)

A Deep Investigation with Managers of Manufacturing Companies

in the USA and Nigeria on the impact of COVID-19.

Discussion Guide

1. Incoming orders and development: Incoming orders and their current development are criteria for assessing the economic situation of a company. They are also an indicator for other related issues such as the extent to which employees are affected by short-time work and the application for public aid. What is the position of your company on this, before and during this covid-19 pandemic?

2. Challenges and possible positive developments as a result of the pandemic: What are the company's unique threats and opportunities? (This discussion should cover or include the negative effect, positive outcome, and the potentials for growth following this pandemic). How does this affect employment?

3. Threat to existence and the need for financial support: Does the pandemic threaten the company's survival? What financial help has come your way? Does the Banks have any more room to stimulate demand in the economy? Where is IMF and World Bank and WTO in all this? Does it threaten labour market too?

4. Personnel capacity adjustments:

Briefly discuss the recruitment guidelines for your company? Evaluate the state of your company’s personnel and the procurement of Staff before and during the pandemic? What measures have you used to retain staff? What are your overall plans for staff tactility in the aftermath of Covid-19 pandemic?

5. Hygiene Concepts: How does the company manage the concept and the development of hygiene in dealing with Coronavirus? What are the noticeable challenges and successes in this regard? Does this affect employees and their performance?

6. Travel: To what extent does the company restrict travelling in and outside the country, to what extent does this change the work structures? Does this affect employees’ satisfaction?

7. Working from home and mobile working: To what extent does the company apply the work from home system? How effective is this in dealing with the pandemic. Have you applied mobile working system? What effect did the work from home and mobile working practices have on your company’s performance?

8. Digitization, communication tools, new work: How has communication changed in the company since the start of the pandemic? What are the digital tools you have used? Are they any noticeable changes or shift towards a new form of work, business and management? How can the global work force be rebuilt after this pandemic?

9. Dealing with Dislocation caused by the pandemic: Manufacturers, Retailers and their Supply Chains – What now? What next? What do you think is the state of international trade with regards to imports and exports? Does it have the same dislocation for Nigeria and the United States of America? What role can business play in managing the crisis and the protection of labour market for future attacks?

10. Deal making in a time of pandemic: What sort of deal making is needed at this time of crisis? Who should compromise and who should not? Does this affect labour?

11. Innovation and behaviour change in the time of pandemic: What are the visible innovation and behaviour change that your company has recorded during this pandemic? How does it affect employment?

12. Exit Scenarios, co-ordinating the fight against coronavirus: Returning to the new normal will require long-term efforts and considerations in many aspects, including socially, economically and physically. How can previous crises help us cope with this one?

13. Morality in the age of pandemic: What are the moral imperatives in this age of coronavirus pandemic? Does the traditional business moral norm still apply, and if not, what has changed as regards employees and employment?

14. Globalization and business: Is the pandemic a further nail on the coffin of globalisation? What is the fate of international trade including exports and imports? How does this affect the labour market?