ABSTRACT
The survival of the home country and multinationals such as manufacturing companies depend solely on their readiness to learn the new normal by adjusting the behaviour, attitudes, and culture of their human resources through upskilling and reskilling approaches. It is based on this premise that this study investigates organisational learning as a strategy for human resource skill adjustment in manufacturing companies in South-Eastern Nigeria. The overall results revealed that dimensions of organisational learnings have positive significant effects on determinants of human resource skill adjustment which implies that an improvement on organisational learning leads to human resource skill adjustment with regards to new work culture engendered by COVID-19 pandemic. This study implies that for HR managers to effectively adjust the behaviour, attitude, skill, and knowledge of their subordinates, upskilling and reskilling, exploration learning, and exploitation learning should be deployed.
ABSTRACT
The financial and business implications of coronavirus pandemic on entrepreneurial business cannot be over-emphasized. Specifically, this paper investigates the effect of COVID lockdown on business and financial performance of entrepreneurial business. To achieve the spelt objective, the study utilized survey design. Data was collected though a self-administered questionnaire from a number of 308 respondents who were management and non-management staff of fifty-two randomly selected entrepreneurial firms in Enugu, Nigeria. Statistical technique software SPSS was employed to aid the data analysis. Having analyzed the data, the study found out that coronavirus pandemic crisis seriously affects the financial and operational performance of entrepreneurial businesses in Nigeria. The work recommends that government should support entrepreneurial firms with financial and palliative measures so as to cushion the effect of the corona pandemic on firms and their workforce © 2020 by author(s) and Linguistica Antverpiensia.