How Much Do We Really Know About Employee Resilience?

• DOI: 10.1017/iop.2015.107
• Publication Date: 2016-07-04T10:45:34Z
• Authors: Thomas W. Britt; Winny Shen; Robert R. Sinclair; Matthew R. Grossman; David M. Klieger
• Keywords: Resilience; CLARITY

Past research purporting to study employee resilience suffers from a lack of conceptual clarity about both the construct and methodological designs that examine without ensuring occurrence significant adversity. The overall goal this article is address our contemporary understanding identify pathways for future advancement in workplace. We first definitions inside outside industrial organizational psychology make case researchers have generally failed document experience adversity when studying working populations. Next, we discuss methods used resilience, with an emphasis on distinguishing capacity demonstration resilience. Representative then reviewed by examining self-reports or resilience-related traits along resilient nonresilient trajectories following briefly issues involved selecting employees building employees. concludes recommendations workplace, including documenting among employees, assessing multiple outcomes, using longitudinal theoretically supported time lags, broadening people occupations military who may face adversity, addressing potential dark side