Purpose

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged leaders to alter the way they manage their organization's employees, such as requiring them to quarantine, self-isolate or practice social distancing so that they comply with government health directives. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of the quarantine on the workplace.

Design/methodology/approach

Structured interviews containing open-ended questions were conducted with fifty Australian public sector executive managers to gauge the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on their organizations.

Findings

The study reveals the effects that the virus had on the organizations' teamwork as well as individuals' learning. It finds that organizations experienced both positive effects, such as increased creativity and initiative, and negative effects, such as reduced satisfaction with work teams, from the pandemic.

Originality/value

This study also adds to the still-developing body of knowledge regarding the effects of the virus on individuals' levels of work team satisfaction as well as a variety of other factors specific to public sector organizations

中文翻译：

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冠状病毒和检疫对澳大利亚公共部门组织的影响

目的

COVID-19 大流行迫使领导者改变他们管理组织员工的方式，例如要求他们隔离、自我隔离或保持社交距离，以便他们遵守政府的健康指令。本研究的目的是调查隔离对工作场所的影响。

设计/方法/方法

对 50 位澳大利亚公共部门执行经理进行了包含开放式问题的结构化访谈，以评估 COVID-19 大流行对其组织的影响。

发现

该研究揭示了病毒对组织团队合作以及个人学习的影响。它发现，组织既经历了大流行带来的积极影响，例如创造力和主动性增加，也经历了消极影响，例如对工作团队的满意度降低。

原创性/价值

这项研究还增加了关于病毒对个人工作团队满意度以及公共部门组织特有的各种其他因素的影响的知识体系。