In a study by Muhammad Taufiq Amir on Employee resilience in organization: Development of a new scale (2012) concluded in today’s rapidly-changing environment employees’ resilience is an essential resource for organizations. The perception stresses on proactive approach and viewing harsh conditions and hardships as an opportunity to grow and become a better person. Developmental persistency and positive emotion have a better chance of improving employees’ resilience and organizational performance under adversity and remove excessive concerns of short term losses. Thirty-eight items reflecting attitudes and behaviors underlying the anticipated dimensions were selected from studies of adult model conceptualizing resilience as a developable aptitude. …show more content…
Concluded past research claiming to study employee resilience suffers from a lack of conceptual clarity about both the resilience construct and the methodological designs that examine resilience without making certain the incidence of significant adversity. The overall goal of this article was to tackle traditional understanding of employee resilience and recognize pathways for the future progression of resilience research in the workplace .It focused on theoretical definitions of resilience both inside and outside of industrial and organizational psychology and make the case that researchers have generally failed to document the familiarity of major hardship when studying resilience in working population. It discusses technique and method used to inspect resilience, with a stress on individualizing the capacity for flexibility and the expression of resilience. Research was reviewed by examining self-reports of resilience or resilience-related traits along with research on resilient and no resilient routes following adversity. The article concludes with suggestions for future research studying resilience in the workplace, including significant adversity among employees, assessing multiple outcomes, using longitudinal designs with theoretically supported time lags and broadening who may face significant adversity, and with dealing with the side of an importance on …show more content…
H. Freeman on Developing Workplace resilience: The role of the peer referral agent diffuser talks about the role of diffuser agent in Canada Post Corporation. Narrative information proposed that it was taking extensive time for representatives to get back openly from a disturbing occasion and this affected the whole work environment timetable. They instigated a plan so that employees get back to work as soon as possible following the post traumatic event and develop certain skills to cope up with such issues. A team was formed with members from CPC Pacific Region managers in labor relations, occupational health and safety, human resources, and corporate security. The members underwent training in critical incident management so that they could distinguish between the significant and critical events. The foundation of the program was to use Peer Referral Agents (PRA) as listening ear for the employees. Later from these PRA certain individual were selected and undergone training by specialist and they become the peer diffuser. The role of peer diffuser was significant as they brought significant result, out of the 209 Canada Post Corporation Pacific employees who participated in these events, all returned to the workplace the same day or the following morning, and only one employee took time off
This paper will discuss from the leadership perspective the significant failures as well as significant successes resulting from the Jason Baker incident, as well as discuss how the professional support of peers during times of crisis can be improved, and will identify a gap in training that may have caused some of the identified failures and describe how I would address the identified training
The Glass Castle Essay Wesley Murray A3 8/28/16 In Jeannette Walls’s book The Glass Castle, there are many examples of what is called human resilience. No better quote describes human resilience better than, “No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead.
This resilience has been shown to help managers to enable their staff to withstand the changing needs of the healthcare system. However, this is not something that can be taught, and is not a trait but more of a state of mind including being realistic, in the moment, aware and prepared (Countu, 2002). One main criticism of this observation is that we will have no way of knowing whether the staff were acting as they usually would or whether they were acting differently as they were aware they were being observed, as this has been shown to change the nature of a person’s behaviour and is more commonly referred to as the “Hawthore Effect” (Campbell, Maxey and Watson, 1995). Another key issue is that again these views are subjective and emotion/demeaner are not always universally interpreted.
In my view resilience can sometime be brought on by an emotional event and helps you with self-confidence. Additionally, I feel that resilience means that one can expect things that can happen in a process and can adjust accordingly to the situation at hand. My example of resilience was demonstrated in this TED talk video “My Escape from North Korea” by Hyeonseo Lee, she discusses her life in North Korea and how everything was transparent to her in North Korea as she was growing up until the age of seven. In response to Larry’s claim that” forgiveness is not for the other person,” he presents a poorly inconsistent argument, on several questionable norms, which his evidence is based solely on his life situations.
What does resilience really mean to you? The literal definition to resilience is the ability to cope with problems and setbacks. In the story Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, she shows us all different kind of ways that the characters in her story used the skills that Kendra Cherry was talking about, to help them out of every situation. In this story it shows how certain situations affect people in different ways and how each person goes through seven skills. The characteristic that Louie undergoes is the skill of Strong Problem-Solving.
Resilience First Aid Kit-Reflection Resilience is defined as; the ability to adapt to stressful, or difficult situations. If you are resilient, you are able to adapt to situations which trouble you without major difficulties. The task was to “Create a Resilience First-Aid Kit”. My resilience first aid kit includes items that I believe will assist someone to overcome problems, stress or hard situations that may occur throughout their time.
n 7 Assignment (10 points): Read the article by Froma Walsh. List the key processes that foster resilience outlined in this article. follow. The main thing seen as reading through this article is how it discusses the way families work through a stressful or even devastating life situation. One family may choose to use a hopeful outlook or use a type of spiritual value to recover quickly from difficulties that are causing the situation.
Resilience is known as bouncing back from the adversities and bringing in strength to cope to difficulties. Adversities happen at personal, community and organisational level. Resilience allows the person to come out of the adversity, rather than staying with it and to move forward further. This is a way of maintaining positive mental health and maintaining one’s own well being in the midst of adverse conditions. It enables a person to maintain positive health in the midst of challenges (Mowbray, 2011).
Resilience as a developmental attribute seems necessary for teachers to be more confident and successful in their teaching. More
Hardy, Concato & Gill (2004) stated that resilient people are those who display “the capacity to remain well, recover, or even thrive in face of adversity”. Masten (2001) as mentioned that they are the ordinary person dealing with the challenges and tragedies of everyday real life. For instance, the response of many Americans to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and individuals’ efforts to rebuild their lives shows their resiliency. Being resilient does not mean that a person does not have or had experience difficulty or distress; the emotional pain and sadness are common but the path to resilience is likely to involve considerable emotional distress. Resilience is not a trait which people either has or do not have whereas it involves
Resilience is the ability to bounce back from adversity or hardship, Debra Oswald was able to express this through the lives of fictitious characters based on real Australian People. She uses themes concerning people marginalised in society, the struggle to achieve one’s dream and the past affect the present, by using these ideas with the diverse cast of characters as well as the range of literary and dramatic techniques, Oswald was able to show how people face adversity and how important it is to have resilience through the engagement of the characters and there development throughout the play. Gary is an average Australian working class man who has been marginalised in society, he lives near the poverty line and struggles everyday to control
Amy presents with extreme anxiety bordering on depression. Her demeanour and body language reflect fear and reluctance to share her life story. As a counsellor I am faced by such situations numerous times whereby active listening and non judgemental questioning break the ice. Empathy and building rapport is essential to establish a therapeutic relationship. Amy's trajectory is full of mistrust and dysfunctional relationships.
However, resilience may also be described as the innate human quality that has not necessarily developed only after big disasters but processed through positive adaptation. A person can be resilient if he/she experience positive life events such as a job promotion, wedding, birth of a new child or having a new pet. These incidents would require the person to perform new roles and responsibilities and he/she can develop resilience to these changes overtime. This is resilience acquired through positive adaption (Fletcher & Sarkar,
According to Masten (2001) “resiliency refers to a class of phenomena characterized by good outcomes in spite of serious threats to adaptation or development” (p. 228). Garmezy (1991) considers the intelligence level of an individual and ability to possess the mind power to tackle an adverse situation as one pleases as the core characteristics of a resilient individual. Garmezy (1991) resiliency framework allows student affairs professionals is to examine the strengths of disadvantaged students who are faced with various life stressors, but
Introduction This essay will look into how the concepts of resilience and the four trajectories proposed by Bonanno can be applied in the case studies. The target population of the case studies is people with medical conditions, namely, spinal cord injury, SARS and breast cancer. Furthermore, this essay will focus on the similarities of how people behave when facing a stressful situation. [[[[[Different percentages of trajectories, the possible predictors and the reason of the differences in the percentages of different trajectories]]]]]] Stressors and effects The first study is about people suffering from spinal cord injuries.