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2025 AOM Annual Meeting

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13593: The Role of Regional/National HRM-Models in Organizational and Workforce Resilience

Sunday, July 27, 2025
10:15 - 11:45 CEST (GMT+2)
Location: Bella Center: Hall B- B4-m8
Session Type: Symposium (panel)
Orientation: Research
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This panel symposium is intended to extend our understanding of the role of different national and regional HRM models and organizational and workforce resilience when dealing with diverse types of global, regional, or national crises. The world within organizations has been affected by a series of social and economic crises in the last 10-15 years. Organizations have had to be resilient to survive and thrive in the face of these events. While, for instance, organizations' technical, logistical, financial, and market aspects have been serious areas of concern for organizations, the HRM and workforce aspects are cross-cutting concerns that every organization has to deal with. A case in point is the Covid-19 crisis, which was in many respects a “people crisis”, but more recent war situations arising have also had serious organizational impact. We see workforce resilience as a sub- dimension of organisational resilience, defined as: “an organisation’s capability to quickly react and adapt to internal and extant threats to its workforce” (Lim et al., 2019: 86). This is parallel to key domains within workforce management, for example workforce planning, workforce adjustment, resourcing, deployment, retention, and employment relations (Lengnick-Hall et al. 2011). Workforce management is a relevant focus because it is the most likely domain where we expect to observe how/where institutional arrangements (e.g. collective bargaining, industrial relations, labour law, employee protection, social contract) will shape an organization’s HRM responses to external shocks in order to enhance its organizational resilience. This leads back to the HRM models we focus on in this panel. They are seen as embedded in local institutional contexts. Therefore, in this panel, we will focus on the, so far, under researched concept “workforce resilience” (Lim et al. 2019) in relation to organizations’ capacity to manage crises.