This is a transitional period when the global and national economy will return to normal and full-scale business operations after the devastating disruption of workplace and businesses by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lukman Raimi (School of Business and Economics, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei) and Jainaba M. L. Kah (Department of Strategic Policy and Delivery, Office of the President, Gambia)
Copyright: © 2022
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Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8626-6.ch011
Abstract
The chapter explicates how career reinvention is leveraged for saving jobs and ensuring business continuity in readiness for the post-pandemic era. The employees exploited entrepreneurial mindset (EM) as a resilience strategy to save current jobs and create new jobs, while employers adopted the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) to keep their businesses afloat and meet their bottom-line. In the 20 multiple cases reviewed, some of the EM characteristics that employees manifested include determination, drive to achieve, opportunity orientation, persistent problem-solving, internal locus of control, tolerance for ambiguity, calculated risk-taking, high energy level, innovativeness, vision, passion, and team building. Comparatively, the EO dimensions that employees utilised include innovativeness, proactiveness, risk-taking, competitive aggressiveness, and autonomy. The chapter enriches the EM and EO concepts by explicating both as career re-invention strategies for saving existing jobs, creating new jobs, and ensuring business continuity in the post-pandemic era.