Emerging trends of employee training and development due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Human resources are considered a valuable resource for the growth of the companies when there is a motivation for them and properly applied (Nadiv et al., 2017). Employee development is widely regarded as the primary engine of an organization's value growth. (Mayo, 2000). The unexpected spread of the covid-19 virus throughout the world, at the beginning of 2019, caused the complete or partial halt of business in the world, and employees are asked to stay at home. However, several businesses have maintained operations based on the idea of working from home (WFH) through the use of internet connectivity (Manickam, 2020). With the implementation of the WFH concept in this pandemic situation, the main problem faced by the employees is the lack of training and development (T&D) (Manickam, 2020). Employees are preferred to take on more responsibilities and they are expected to enhance current skills and add new skills to meet the current job demand in order to fulfill org...