HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN EDUCATION: A POST-PANDEMIC PARADIGM APPROACH

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has generated impressive effects on all organisations, especially educational ones, creating a provocative, complex, and totally new environment for practitioners in human resources management (HRM), but also for managers who had to find practical, viable, and ingenious solutions to ensure the continuity of the instructiveeducational process, but also to help its employees adapt to this extraordinary crisis. Since studies addressing this topic are sparse, this study aims to explore the impact that the change in the educational paradigm generated by the COVID19 pandemic has had on HRM, expanding the objective of management research and performance in preuniversity education in Romania. The methodology consist of a SWOT analysis that identifies the main strengths, challenges, and opportunities that have arisen from the new pandemic, offering updated perspectives to HRM practitioners and managers, and regarding the possible development directions at the national level that could arise from these opportunities. Also, a survey opinion was conducted among teachers from Romania, Cyprus, England, Greece, Spain, and Turkey in order to identify to what extent they have knowledge about the following concepts: Human Resource Management and performance in education. In the end, in order to determine the knowledge by country and intensity levels for the Education Performance indicator, a statistical analysis was performed.