Human Centered Management and Crisis

Human Centered Management and Crisis: Disruptions, Resilience, Wellbeing and Sustainability is the new edited book of the Human Centered Management (HCM) Series developed to respond to surmounting concerns of global audiences and human centered scholars, practitioners and students searching for answers to better and objectively understand the effects of unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic disruptions and ongoing crises, affecting the wellbeing of people and workplaces since 2019. The effects linger and solutions are pressing. This new HCM volume presents analytical expertise and practical experiences of a team of international HCM scholars and practitioners targeting objective assessment of causes and effects of disruptions and offering coherent solutions applying HCM principles and practices. The book chapters include topics dealing with specific problem-solving strategies in numerous industries, among them, higher education, health care and entrepreneurship. The book will help readers worldwide to understand the challenges people and organizations are facing in the present global VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environment. The audience will benefit from the book and its purpose to deliver enduring HCM solutions anchored in the wellbeing of people as precondition for organizations to secure high performance, quality standards and long-term sustainability.

Peter Essens is Director of the Center of Expertise in the Department of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior at the University of Groningen and Editor of the Human Centered Management Book Series.

Maria-Teresa Lepeley is President and CEO of the Global Institute for Quality Education, USA, and Founder and Principal Editor of the Human Centered Management Book Series.

Nicholas J. Beutell is Professor of Management in the LaPenta School of Business at Iona University, USA and Editor of the Human Centered Management Book Series.

Linda Ronnie is Professor and Senior Research Scholar at the School of Management Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Anielson Barbosa da Silva is a Professor in the Management Department at Federal University of Paraíba - UFPB, Brazil.