Title: Organisational learning: COVID-19 strategy for human resource skill adjustment

Authors: Friday Ogbu Edeh; Joy N. Ugwu; Linus Adama; Nicholas Ihentuge Achilike; Chimeziem C.G. Udeze; Ngozi Franca Iroegbu; Stephen F. Aleke; Collins Okechukwu Irem; Peter Ifeanyi Okwu; Ikechukwu Ogbu

Addresses: Department of Business Administration, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State, Nigeria ' Department of Business Administration, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State, Nigeria ' Department of Business Administration, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State, Nigeria ' Department of Business Administration, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State, Nigeria ' Department of Business Administration, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State, Nigeria ' Department of Business Administration, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State, Nigeria ' Department of Accountancy, Banking and Finance, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State, Nigeria ' Department of Accountancy, Banking and Finance, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State, Nigeria ' Department of Accountancy, Banking and Finance, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State, Nigeria ' Department of Accountancy, Banking and Finance, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State, Nigeria

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.

Keywords: human resource skill adjustment; HRSA; organisational learning; OL; upskilling; reskilling; COVID-19 pandemic.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2023.129904

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 2023 Vol.16 No.2, pp.186 - 200

Received: 14 Jun 2021
Accepted: 31 Aug 2021
Published online: 03 Apr 2023 *

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