Future of Work and Business in Covid-19 Era: Proceedings of IMC-2021

This proceedings volume explores the disruptive effect of COVID19 pandemic on business leaders and managers. It covers the sweeping changes experienced by all sectors of work and business along with core functional verticals. As organizations institutionalize lessons learned through trial and error, an effort is required to document these efforts. The volume is an amalgamation of papers presented papers at the International Management Conference, 2021 hosted at KIIT University, India in February 2021. The thrust of this conference was to gather a holistic picture of the lessons derived during the pandemic hardship. Selected papers provide readers with an idea of the new normal in various domains of management across industries and organizations. Research papers, from each functional areas of business management, give focus on experiences and best practices.

Rabi N. Subudhi is a Senior Professor at KIIT School of Management, KIIT University, India. With over 34 years of teaching experience, he has published ten books and over seventy research papers in the area of quantitative research methodology. He had received a senior research fellowship (SRF) award from CSIR, Govt. of India, for his doctoral research. He was chapter president of ORSI. He is presently the Editor of KIIT Management Research Journal, Parikalpana.

Sumita Mishra is a Professor at KIIT School of Management, KIIT University, India. Her research on organizational culture, organization design, group culture and social psychology has been published in several reputable journals, such as Asian Case Research Journal, Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, and Management Review.

Abu Saleh is Associate Professor at Canberra Business School, University of Canberra, Australia. He was a postdoc fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Australia and has published about 50 papers in internal journals of repute.

Dariush Khezrimotlagh is Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Penn State University, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He was previously an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Malaya, Malaysia, and Visiting Researcher at University Technology Malaysia. He served as the Director of the Studies and Information Center, Commercial Aviation Organization in Iran, and has more than 20 years of experience as an educator. He earned his MS in Pure Mathematics and his PhD in Applied Mathematics, specializing in Operations Research and DEA. Dr. Khezrimotlagh is a committee member of the Data Envelopment Analysis International Conference (DEAIC), a member of INFORMS, Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and American Mathematical Society.