Resilience in the Workplace
Today’s business environment is facing more stressful situations than ever before. Organizations are faced with many decisions that can throw their employees into chaos or even cause them to become less productive. Especially if the organization needs to downsize their work force to survive in today’s economy. One of the factors that promise some support of helping businesses overcome this adversity is by having resilient employees.
There are many different definitions of resilience, but all have the same underlying premise. The definition that will be discussed in this paper is from Luthans (as cited in Youssef & Luthans, 2007, p. 778) who defined resilience as “the developable capacity to rebound or bounce back from adversity, conflict, and failure or even positive events, progress, and increased responsibility.” Resilience is not just genetics, but there is evidence to support that the possibility exists that it is teachable (Winwood, Colon, Psych, McEwen, & Psych, 2013, p. 1205). This data has been supported by additional researchers. Wilson and Ferch (Wilson & Ferch, 2005, p. 45) substantiated this data by supporting that resilience is reinforced by caring relationships among employees.
There are multiple components of being resilient. Winwood et al (Winwood et al., 2013, p. 1207) identified seven components of being resilient that they measured in their studies as: living authentically, finding one’s calling, maintaining perspective, managing stress, interacting cooperatively, staying healthy, and building networks. These are not the only components of being resilient. Flach (as cited in Wilson & Ferch, 2005, p. 48) has identified multiple facets of resilience, but five were discussed...
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...s could be a huge detriment to an organization over the course of time, especially during rough economic times.
There are some flaws in the research studies. None of the research studies looked at how leadership or management positions could facilitate increasing the resilience of their organization’s employees. However, Wilson and Ferch did mention how caring relationships enhanced resilience within the organization (Wilson & Ferch, 2005, p. 46). Another item that would need to be examined further is the lasting effect of employee resilience within an organization. Winwood et al mentioned within their research that a longitudinal study would need to be conducted to foresee the long lasting effects on the employee’s welfare and health as well as be used to develop specific interventions to help make employees more resilient (Winwood et al., 2013, pp. 1211-1212).
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Li, M., Xu, J., He, Y., & Wu, Z. (2012). The Analysis of the Resilience of Adults One Year after
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...der to surpass the stress experienced by the whole family. It is continuously staying strong and supporting each family member in the changes that might take place in order to respond to the internal and external forces. In brief, developing a resilient family does not solely depend on just those part of the family, everyone has a significant role to play in order for a family to cope with the internal and external stress they encounter. The article is truly useful in most of the situations Filipino families are experiencing right now. It would not only guide them but also mold those families to become stronger and have higher hopes and goals in life. Metaphorically, Understanding Family Resilience is similar to a guide for families to follow in order to have a stronger relationship, not just with those part of their family but also those part of their environment.
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From my understanding, I have come to view resilience as the art of not dwelling. This personal definition, I recognize, only summarizes half of the word’s meaning, not even touching on the action of recovery. I chose to view it in this way because, I find it helps me to find it manageable. I often struggle with experiencing difficulties or changes, I often find myself internalizing my problems which leads me to introspection and self doubt. By concentrating on a single facet I am able to better manage resilience. Despite my choice to ignore the second half on the word’s meaning, by choosing not to dwell, I have found recovery becomes easier to achieve. As a person who prefers math and science, problem solving from an analytical perspective is an enjoyable task, but when emotions are involved the process gets derailed or takes longer. I have found that using my strategy of not dwelling I am able to analytically look at my situation and consider my next steps to