Research paper-18 pages

Running head: COVID-19 CASE STUDY 1

COVID-19 CASE STUDY 8

COVID-19 CASE STUDY

Abstract:

Globally COVID-19 has 1.4 million confirmed cases and 83,000 deaths approximately. It resulted in economic damage and decline in employment. Due to this situation across the world many sectors got affected like education, healthcare, tourism, Information Technology, food, etc. Demand on medical supplies has been drastically increased. Even food sector has high demand due to panic buying. World Health Organization (WHO) has declared COVID-19 as global emergency on 30th January 2020. To control the situation government has imposed travel restrictions to other countries and suggested self-Isolate themselves. (Nicola, Alsafi, Sohrabi, Kerwan, Al-Jabir, Iosifidis, M.Agha & R.Agha, 2020)

Education:

COVID -19 has impacted education system with closure of all levels of education. There are over 100 countries forced to shut down all educational institutions including Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, United States. UNESCO estimated that approximately 900 million students will get affected. (Nicola et al., 2020)

HealthCare:

COVID-19 has caused an unexpected heavy impact on healthcare systems worldwide. As healthcare workers cannot work remotely which causes high risk to their lives. There are very large number of patients that got affected but there are not enough N95 masks, ventilators, ICU beds which made them put the patient’s life in danger. (Nicola et al., 2020)

Tourism:

Due to COVID-19 outbreak, tourism department has got a hard blow. The World travel and tourism council projected that around 50 million jobs at risk. In Vietnam more than 50% of the tourist economy has been affected due to this. Even in US all public places and parks are closed until further notice. (Nicola et al., 2020)

The mass outbreak of the virus has let to isolation of the people at their homes. Travel restrictions has caused both domestic and international business put at high loss. The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai conducted a survey which says that 127 American based companies, 20 companies located in china which has revenue of $500 million were drastically dropped which will cause high impact in 2020 revenues. In this situation online shopping businesses increased by 50%. Half of the businesses projected their loses will be around 10–30% of their revenue this year. (Bouey, 2020)

Employee flexibility:

Be flexible to employees at this situation. This is very non-judgmental situation where no one can force anyone to complete their tasks. It is a better way to communicate with workers and if possible, let them work from home. Listening and discussing with them is the key to handle things at this situation. If anyone wants help to change the setup of their work location that should be taken care of. When we don’t know when this critical situation is going to come to an end its always good to have flexible work place rules to have the tasks completed. (Crist, 2020)

If the companies are not ready you should ask your employees to telecommute. Companies which allow to work remotely will have implicit knowledge, planning and infrastructure to rapidly transform into remote operations if necessary. (Hudecheck, Sirén, Grichnik & Wincent, 2020)

Limit exposure at work:

Employees should make sure they are extra cautious and take proper precautions to keep everyone safe. Should maintain proper hygiene and wash hands regularly. Maintain social distancing between employees while interacting should maintain a six feet distance. Frequently sanitize the mostly used places like phones, door knobs, desks etc. (Crist, 2020)

Stay up to date:

As scientists learning more about this COVID-19 virus they are publishing new measures and journals like New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet. These articles explain more about how to quarantine, possible methods of treatments. They recommend the patients to explain their own situation clearly to doctors as everyday a new symptom is getting developed. Company HR staff has to send out this important information out to workers so that they will be aware. (Crist, 2020)

Managing operations creatively is one of the best ways to respond to COVID-19. Organizations should create teams internally and externally to focus on developing ideas which could give faster results in short span of time. Stanford Health Care developed a creative way of testing by doing so, which is treating the patients remotely by drive-through testing. This will give results minimum of 15 minutes. (Nembhard, Burns, & Shortell, 2020)

Any Organization cannot face this situation alone. This COVID-19 made the organizations reach out to different geographies and crossed organizational borders to get a solution and form a effective team. Management Research has suggested to collaborate with other partners to face with critical situation collectively which plays a crucial role to maintain their revenues. (Nembhard et al., 2020)

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