Organizational Resilience

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Background

Modern day organizations have to constantly change to meet the demands of customers. Workers have to change with the organizations to be able to perform new functions and complete new sophisticated tasks.

Not only the type of the work employees are required to do changes, place, method, and environment of the work is also subject to transformation. With high turnover being common characteristic among modern organizations, people have to work in teams each time composed of different people.

Mallak (1998) noticed that employees working in the sales and supplies department are even greater exposed to external changes as they have to work with many different people.

Today workers have more discretionary power and are allowed to make independent decisions during the course of their work. This is essential part of meeting clients’ expectations and ensuring quality of the service. Understandably, the requirement of assuming greater responsibility through making key decisions is an additional source of pressure upon the workers. One thing all successful employees have to share is what we call adaptability to the changes. It is very important that today’s employees can make quick decisions on spot, address the needs of the clients, solve any possible tensions and ease frustrations, and then continue performing work-related responsibilities. However, Mallak (1998) notes that the majority of workers is unable to performs these functions on practice, as he believes many lack adequate training and/or preparation.

What workers have to learn to be able to adapt to the constantly changing working environment is resilience. To be resilient means to know “how to design and implement positive adaptive behaviors quickly that are m...

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References

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Mallak, Larry. (1998). Putting Organizational Resilience to Work. Industrial Management, 40 (6).

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