Jiwu Hou(624620)

How is Covid-19 Virus impact our life
Credit: Weixin He Bruce(624415) ; Yuaola Chen(615926); Zhi Hu(606109);
Jiwu Hou(624620)
Term project
Course: LDRS 330 N3
Instructor: Johannes Regier, M.Sc.

What is Covid-19 Virus?
COVID-19 is the disease caused by the new coronavirus that was first identified in December 2019.
COVID-19 symptoms include cough, fever or chills, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, muscle or body aches, sore throat, new loss of taste or smell, diarrhea, headache, new fatigue, nausea or vomiting and congestion or runny nose. COVID-19 can be severe, and some cases have caused death.
The new coronavirus can be spread from person to person. It is diagnosed with a laboratory test.
Prevention involves frequent hand-washing, coughing into the bend of your elbow, staying home when you are sick and wearing a cloth face covering if you can’t practice physical distancing.

How does the Covid-19 virus spread?

As of now, researchers know that the new coronavirus is spread through droplets released into the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes.
The droplets generally do not travel more than a few feet, and they fall to the ground (or onto surfaces) in a few seconds
This is why physical distancing is effective in preventing the spread.
It appears that symptoms are showing up in people within 14 days of exposure to the virus.

What has virus affected us
Racism
Life Threatening
Social Distance
Companies
Individuals’ Income
Trust Between Individuals
Students Taking Classes (Especially International Students)

How Do We Communicate (Take Classes)
Voice chat, video chat, and text messages becomes one of the most popular ways of how individuals communicate with each other.
Zoom is widely used all over the world, while in China individuals use a similar app called DingDing to take classes online.
Mask is necessary to wear for everyone to wear if they must go outside, for example, grocery shopping.
Individuals keep distances longer than 1 meters between each other.

Ways of Countries Dealing With Virus
Canada:
Government provide money to individuals who lose their job due to the virus and company owners who was forced to running.
Police spot check if anyone is hanging over during special period and charge fine if anyone break the rule.
Encouraging everyone to stay at home instead of going out or travel during the pedamic.
Individuals come back to Canada from other countries have to stay in a hotel for three days and take the coronavirus test before leaving the hotel, and then stay at home for two weeks before going out to public places.
China (Controlled Better):
Mayor lock-down the province if the virus in one province is rising rapidly.
Individuals coming back to China from other countries have to quarantine for fourteen days in a hotel, take a coronavirus test, and then say at home for fourteen days before going out to public areas.
Before going into a shopping mall, hospital, public areas, or delivering food, must measure their body temperature and has to be lower than thirty seven degree centigrade.
Everyone has a QR code, before entering public areas or entering another province, everyone must show it to the officers. If the code is green, it means you are healthy and you can enter. If you pick up anyone who recently comes back from another country, your code will turn yellow and you are not allowed to go in public areas. Instead, you need to stay at home for fourteen days before it turned green again. If you are affected by the coronavirus, your code will be red and you are not allowed to leave the hospital until you are cured.

How companies can intervene in the epidemic
Telecommuting
Telecommuting is a new office model. Countries have effectively adopted this novel model. Studies have shown that this model helps companies resume work and production smoothly. Secondly, it also reduces the flow of personnel and protects the health of employees.
“Sharing employees”
With the development of the epidemic, the issue of human resource allocation has become a difficulty. Companies in various countries are unable to recruit excellent employees based on their needs. On the contrary, some companies have carried out a large number of layoffs in order to reduce labor costs. Based on this issue, the human resources departments of many companies have also intervened.

How companies can intervene in the epidemic
3. Adjust the sales model
Take catering companies as an example.The company no longer allows people to eat food indoors, but they chooses to take out to deliver meals to people’s homes.

Possible interventions
At the beginning of the project, leaders need to understand motivational team coaching and it is appropriate to increase commitment to the team and tasks. When it comes to the transition period, leaders need to understand Consultative coaching, which is a strategy-oriented coaching that can help the team analyze And improving operations is very valuable.

AS for the educational coaching on our project, Planning and goal setting support employees to establish personal development goals that they value and ensure their ability to complete the agreed steps of action, for example, setting personal sales and rewarding employees for reaching the goal. In addition, the group conducts regular employee experience exchanges.

Action plan
First of all, our team actively listens to the opinions of all members and integrates their ideas into the team’s decision-making. For example, we investigate the distribution of local restaurants, and some members propose to inquire through Google map and field trips. Then everyone decides to assign tasks together.

Regarding how to increase the intensity of publicity and promotion, our team believes that the first thing to do is to put the logo of our food delivery platform on the door of the restaurant we cooperate with. Second, promote our app with a large number of activities and discounts.

Servant Leader
Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all

For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many .