The Importance of Definitional and Temporal Issues in the Study of Resilience

Fisher, David M.; Ragsdale, Jennifer M.; Fisher, Emily C.S.

doi:10.1111/apps.12162

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“…First, we encountered neither a comprehensive review of the antecedents and outcomes of resilience in the workplace at different levels of analysis, nor sufficient scrutiny of the theories used to explain how resilience develops and influences work outcomes. The development of conceptual frameworks for the study of resilience in organisational contexts, such as those provided by Fisher, Ragsdale, and Fisher (), Kossek and Perrigono (), and Britt, Shen, Sinclair, Grossman, and Klieger (), have been an important step to address problems arising from conceptual inconsistencies. However, these integrative frameworks still do not fully map the nomological network of variables to which resilience in the workplace is related.…”

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Resilience in the Workplace: A Multilevel Review and Synthesis

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In an increasingly dynamic business environment, the concept of resilience is fundamental to understanding how employees successfully handle adversity. Yet, the operationalisation of the concept, the factors which lead to its development, and how and why it influences outcomes of interest to organisations are issues still under debate in the literature. In this article, we address these debates by undertaking a critical review of research on resilience in the workplace at both the individual and team levels. We pinpoint different conceptualisations of resilience and highlight how resilience has been measured in extant quantitative work. Further, we provide a systematic literature review of empirical work on the antecedents and outcomes of resilience at the individual and team levels, as well as conduct a review of work that has introduced resilience as a moderator or mediator. In doing so, we highlight theoretical approaches that have been adopted to study resilience in the workplace. Based on our review of the extant empirical work on resilience, we develop a roadmap for future research. In particular, we pinpoint relevant theoretical approaches that help us understand the mechanisms underlying the development and outcomes of resilience and highlight opportunities for empirical advancement of the literature.

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Resilience in the Workplace: A Multilevel Review and Synthesis

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“…Interestingly, and counter to our expectations, the inclusion of affective self‐regulation within the block of self‐regulatory variables did not add to the prediction of any of the psychological well‐being, job search self‐efficacy, or job search clarity outcomes. This may speak to the need for deeper consideration of the role of time and temporal issues in the resiliency process (see Fisher et al, 2019). For instance, after the experience of job loss, an individual's first reactions may be emotionally driven (feeling anger, resentment, disappointment, etc.…”

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“…Although coping is important, it does not address the critical issue of how to return to previous levels of functioning, which is especially relevant when job loss has occurred and obtaining reemployment is necessary. In this sense, there is a need to consider the unfolding nature of adversity (see Fisher et al, 2019), in which coping can provide a primary buffer against negative effects and may precede resiliency. However, aligned with Lazarus and Folkman's (1984) transactional stress model, should an adversity overwhelm an individual's coping resources, resiliency will be needed to restore well‐being and effectiveness.…”

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Resiliency, Self‐Regulation, and Reemployment After Job Loss

McLarnon

Rothstein

King

2020

Journal of Employment Couns

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This study investigated self-regulation and resiliency in one's search for reemployment. Although trait-based approaches are central to many resiliency conceptualizations, recent research has found that self-regulation (affective, behavioral, and cognitive) contributes to predicting resiliency-related outcomes. We hypothesized that selfregulation would incrementally predict reemployment process outcomes, specifically the job search outcomes of psychological well-being, job search self-efficacy, and job search clarity. Results indicated that, over and above resiliency traits, behavioral and cognitive self-regulation incrementally predicted well-being and job search clarity, and cognitive self-regulation incrementally predicted job search self-efficacy. Implications for theory and continued research on resiliency in reemployment are discussed.

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“…The first paper in the special issue by Fisher, Ragsdale, and Fisher () presents a systematic review of the literature and advocates for a concise definition of resilience, along with a heuristic framework aimed at the meaningful categorisation of the various elements, features, and experiences implicated by the concept of resilience.…”

Section: The Scope Of the Special Issuementioning

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