RETHINKING HUMAN RESOURCES AFTER COVID-19: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS


Claudiu COMAN1*, Anna BUCS2, Raluca-Maria ȘERBĂNESCU3, Maria-Cristina BULARCA4

Abstract.  Human Resources departments had to rethink strategies, come up with new ideas for the digital transition, and work out the best strategies for companies and employees. Our aim is to see how Human Resources from different fields cope with the aftermath of the pandemic and what has changed in their approaches. The primary purpose of this article is to identify the main post-pandemic directions of the human resources departments through bibliometric analysis. This study analyzed 28 articles from the post-pandemic era, extracted from the Web of Science database. The resulting articles, obtained by using two main keywords, “Human Resources” and “Post-pandemic”, were analyzed using VOSviewer software. Our results highlight the most important trends identified in the specialized literature: digitalization, the well-being of employees, and the overall rethinking of organizational culture.

Keywords: human resources; COVID-19; resilience; post-pandemic.

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DOI       10.56082/annalsarscijkd.2025.1.88

1*Faculty of Sociology and Communication, Transilvania University Brasov and Academy of Romanian Scientists, Ilfov 3,  sector 5, Bucharest, Romania, corresponding author:  claudiu.coman@unitbv.ro

Department of Sociology and Social Sciences, University of Craiova, anna.bucs@gmail.com

Faculty of Sociology and Communication, Transilvania University Brasov, raluca.serbanescu@student.unitbv.ro

Faculty of Sociology and Communication, Transilvania University Brasov, cristina.bularca@unitbv.ro


PUBLISHED in Journal of Knowledge Dynamics, Volume 2, No1