Bachelor Thesis from the year 2021 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,7, Otto Beisheim School of Management Vallendar, language: English, abstract: This thesis provides some best practices and other principles to help overcome the challenges and disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic. This thesis discusses these eleven best practices and other principles in the later chapters, and will help leaders realize possible challenges and how to overcome them. If teams fail to overcome them and adjust to the virtual environment, they will not be able to work effectively any more and could cause potential damage and losses to the organization by not completing their tasks and goals. These practical implications can help leaders and remote teams adjust to a virtual environment and are why this thesis is very relevant during the Covid-19 pandemic and also post-pandemic, as these are helpful guidelines for remote leaders. Essential principles for remote leadership are the following in no particular order: • Provision of technology • Frequent and well communication • Sequencing of tasks • Provision of emotional and social support. • Maintenance of productivity and engagement • Promotion of a work-life balance • Acquisition of mentoring quality • Reinforcement of trustworthiness • Encouragement of shared leadership • Establishment of norms • Digital leadership Covid-19 has disrupted many workplaces, changed the working environment, and shifted most workplaces to a remote work setting, meaning most people had to start working from home. As the Covid-19 pandemic was rapidly advancing, working from the office was no longer possible in most workplaces. Many companies implemented a 'new normal' in the form of virtual teams and remote work. With this disruption and change, many difficulties and issues arose. Virtual teams and, therefore, also remote leadership face different challenges than face-to-face leadership and teams do. These new challenges came quickly and somewhat unexpectedly, and now leaders and organizations have to face them. Coping with these challenges is crucial for the Covid-19 era and post-pandemic age, when workspaces will most likely stay remote to some extent. Therefore, this topic is significant in the present and will also remain important for the future.

Technology has always been important to organizations and a crucial aspect of their continued development. Organizations that already relied on the most up-to-date technology and provided forward-thinking leadership had a smoother transition during the COVID-19 pandemic, which created turmoil for other organizations that were lacking in this type of leadership. Leadership that implements current and future technology is vital to thrive in the post-pandemic world. Further study on this type of management and practice is required to ensure businesses are prepared and knowledgeable. Business Models to Promote Technology, Culture, and Leadership in Post-COVID-19 Organizations delves into how virtual technology has evolved to create remote offices and remote teaming in areas such as health, education, engineering, and other business solutions. The book also explores culture in a business and how individuals may interface, communicate, and collaborate in past, current, and future business models. Covering key topics such as management, public health, and society, this reference work is ideal for business owners, managers, human resource professionals, supervisors, scholars, researchers, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.

The COVID-19 pandemic has permanently changed lives around the world and no dimension of life and leadership seems to have been spared from its wrath. It has also stirred us into thinking about novel approaches to lead organizations and societies toward a shared, sustainable future. This book offers novel perspectives on leadership and change management after the COVID-19 pandemic that take us beyond striving for thriving—perspectives that are grounded in emergent theory, research and practice. It highlights sustainable leadership and change management strategies to effectively deal with unpredictable and rapidly changing situations—particularly in a world that is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). This book also highlights engaging perspectives by specialists from different disciplines such as business, psychology, education, and health care. It serves as a practical guide in identifying and responding to leadership challenges and opportunities in each of the four VUCA categories of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity—and how they affect businesses, organizations, and societies as a whole.

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed extraordinary demands on leaders compelled to navigate a complex, far-reaching event that threatened human life, business continuity and survival. What can leaders learn from the crisis response to equip them for a post-pandemic world and beyond? Leadership in a Post-Pandemic World brings together cutting-edge research by authors Prof. David McGuire and Dr. Marie-Line Germain with thought-provoking evidence-based contributions from leading international researchers offering fresh insights into how leadership approaches and practices have evolved in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Divided into four sections, it discusses the leadership challenges and subsequent skills required to deal with the pandemic in politics, education, healthcare and business industries; emergency planning; organizational and personal resilience; the effect of dysfunctional and narcissistic leaders; lessons learned and how such lessons will shape the leadership of the future. This book is a vital resource for leaders, students of leadership, strategy and management, and anyone interested in the long-term consequences of crisis leadership on our society as a whole.

This book explores the innovations, disruptions and changes that are required to adapt in a fast-evolving landscape due to the extraordinary circumstances triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Recognized experts from around the world share their research and professional experience on how the working environment, as well as the world around them, have changed due to the pandemic. Chapters consider how different fields across technology and business have been affected by this new, dramatic scenario and the drastic consequences that the pandemic had on them. With diverse contributions stemming from public health, technology strategies, urban planning and sociology to sustainable management, this volume is articulated into four distinct but complementary sections of People, Process, Planet, and Prosperity influencing the post-COVID world. This book will be of great interest to those in the fields of computer science and information technology, as well as those studying the impact and effects that COVID-19 is having on society.

Some ideas and concepts for our forward-thinking approach to the Post-Covid-19 world are not decades old, they are centuries old. Time tested and proven methodologies are effective when repurposed, up-cycled, rethought to apply to problems that did not exist when they were created. An equation required to project the precise area the first Mercury capsule would land was a centuries-old formula developed by Leonhard Euler known as Euler's Method. Leonhard Euler was a prolific Swiss mathematician who lived 1707-1783. Katherine G. Johnson rethought Euler's formula and applied it to a problem that did not exist when it was created to create a cutting-edge solution for Astronaut John Glenn and N.A.S.A. As Kathrine worked toward her solution, she was focused on creative problem-solving. Kathrine proved new thinking and old methods can create more than new solutions. John Glenn orbited the Earth on February 20, 1962, 179 years after Euler's death. Her new thinking and old methods wrote history. If you master the tools provided and apply them with your new thinking you will prosper in the post-Covid-19 world. Along the way, I hope you write history.In 2019 the Earth was not visited by aliens in a flying saucer. The Earth was visited by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, SARS-CoV-2, Covid-19, and the Earth stood still, not for 30 minutes, but for months. Social Distancing, Shelter in Place, Containment, Mitigation, and Pandemic became part of our everyday conversations and we all watched in shock and horror as tens of thousands died.Think about this for a moment. The human cost is not the number of souls lost during the pandemic. Those losses are in the past. As we move forward, it is the emotional toll that poverty and economic hardship create over time, and that clock, that calendar is just now starting. It will last longer than the economic recovery. The damage to the hearts and souls of every living being is immeasurable. The trend toward working from home or working remotely accelerated to light speed and we all worked from home overnight. Leaders, not managers, real leaders have always been a scarce and unbelievably valuable asset in the world of business. You know a real leader when they walk into a room. They command your attention not by title but by their presence, their persona. How does one lead when a significant portion of the workforce becomes remote and they no longer experience the face-to-face presence of the organization's leaders?It is my MISSION with Post Covid-19 Communication & Leadership to provide you with the tools and skills to use the tools to successfully communicate, lead and prosper in the post-Covid-19 world and maybe, just maybe write, yourself into the history books.

"This publication delves into how virtual technology has evolved to create remote offices and remote teaming in Health, Education, Engineering, and other business solutions, exploring culture in businesses and how individuals may interface, communicate, and collaborate in past, current, and future business models"--