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The Effect Of Covid-19 On The Human Capital Management In Start-Ups In Egypt, Fayrouz El Dabbagh, Mariam Walid, Shorouk Fouda, Shahjahan Bhuiyan Jan 2021

The Effect Of Covid-19 On The Human Capital Management In Start-Ups In Egypt, Fayrouz El Dabbagh, Mariam Walid, Shorouk Fouda, Shahjahan Bhuiyan

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Start-ups are institutionally fragile companies that deal with high degrees of risk and uncertainty, especially during short-term shocks, such as COVID-19. This policy brief attempts to identify the needed development in the start-up supporting ecosystem under COVID-19 pandemic, with a special focus on human capital management (HCM), decent work, and labor resilience in start-ups in Egypt. The core question of the paper is: How did COVID-19 pandemic affect the HCM practices in Egyptian start-ups and what is needed for start-ups in Egypt to recover from the crisis and sustain decent jobs and labor resilience?