Inequality in the time of corona virus

ABSTRACT

The Covid-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to organization and management scholars to revisit some of the foundational assumptions that underpin our thriving research streams. In this essay, the author talk about what he think is this pandemic's biggest revelation How we have chronically overlooked inequality in our work. When it comes to inequality in and around organizations, Covid-19 has truly laid bare how one of the defining afflictions of our time has escaped scrutiny from management scholar. The grand challenge is less Covid-19 and more the unjust socio-economic context around it. As management researchers, our focus should not just be on how organizations are coping with it, or who survives and who perishes, but also on what aspects of organization have been laid bare in this pandemic. The 'new normal' must include a better appreciation of the vast inequalities and injustices that characterize organizations, but which remain conspicuous by their absence in our literature. Scholars must think of new ways of approaching organizations, a way that underlines the tensions that exist just below the surface, and the different lives that are led within them. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)