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Economic crisis and communication : the role of the HR manager
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MAP20130029337
Susaeta Erburu, Lourdes ‌
Economic crisis and communication : the role of the HR manager / Lourdes Susaeta Erburu, Esperanza Suárez Ruz, José Ramón Pin Arboledas
Special Issue - Selected papers of the 1st B.S. Lab International Symposium, Valencia, 2013
Sumario: Since 2008, the global economy has been immersed in one of the most significant structural economic crises of recent times. Its origins can be traced to the North American financial crisis, and its consequences have impacted all global economic production sectors, triggering a broad and profound employment crisis which has led to a deepening social recession around the world. In Spain, the effects of the crisis on the labor market have been much more devastating than in the rest of Europe, and around six million people have lost their jobs. In the light of this context, we wished to investigate what should be the role and the contribution of HR in business crisis management, and what are the key drivers in achieving employee engagement. Have there been recent changes in the HR manager¿s role? The efficiency of an appropriate communication policy in a crisis situation, both with respect to employees and to their union representatives, constitutes a crucial factor which could be defined as the strategic role adopted by the HR function when facing a change in the economic cycle. In this sense, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the internal (employee-directed) and external (union-representative-directed) communication strategies being applied by the HR managers of Spanish companies in their approach to the economic crisis
En: Business Systems Review. - Volume 2 Issue 2, 2013 ; p. 278-296
1. Dirección de recursos humanos ‌. 2. Crisis económica ‌. 3. Gestión de recursos humanos ‌. 4. Estrategia empresarial ‌. 5. Comunicación interna ‌. 6. Comunicación externa ‌. 7. España ‌. I. Suárez Ruz, Esperanza ‌. II. Pin Arboledas, José R. ‌. III. B.S. Lab International Symposium (1st : 2013: Valencia) ‌.