Resilience In Management Style

Resilience in managerial life is worth looking in to as managers need to be more resilient so that they can bounce back from the loads of pressures and adversities encounter in business. In this context, there is a need to understand the resilient ability of a manager against his personality traits and thinking pattern. With this assumption, a research is designed to examine the relationship of personality dispositions, cognitive style and decision making style with resilience of management students. A sample of 130 management students was selected randomly between the age group of 20-25 years. The tests used are Resilience Inventory, Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Cognitive Style Inventory and Decision Making Inventory. Results showed that resilience

A child who generally receives positive reinforcing images of himself as they are reflected in the loving gestures of his primary caregivers soon begins to associate these reflected subliminal messages with his own state of being in the world. In troubled families, however, the mirroring process goes awry and children are at risk of forming an inner self-representation that feels defective and unwanted (Swinney, 2001). Though, developmental theory maintains that occasionally a child will manage to distract himself from distorted images and will be drawn instead to more positively reinforcing image of himself in relation to his environment. Piaget’s (1952) one of the stimulus equilibration is the most useful information processing concept. It refers to the overall balancing-act that occurs between existing frames of reference and novel experiences, ideally leading to a sense of coherent equilibrium between the child's subjective inner and objective outer world. This would predict resilient life coping skills from a child possessing an innately adaptive, harmoniously balanced internal frame of reference (Siegler,

Ego psychology conceptualizes the intrapsychic world as one of tension between the energy dynamics of the unconscious demands of the "superego," the conscious volition of the "ego," and the instinctual drives of the "id." This conflict produces anxiety, which brings forth a compromise between the needs of the id and the ego in the form of a defense mechanism such as repression, suppression, denial or projection of the true facts of the situation to a place in the psyche where they no longer have to be consciously dealt with. However, object relations theory views this conflict as being generated more within the context of relationships with others rather than strictly within oneself. Self psychology, on the other hand, focuses more on how the external relationships in one's life help in develop and maintain a sense of self-esteem and self-cohesion through interaction with one's inner relationship with oneself. It is more of a "two person, self-object" psychology.

In sum, psychodynamic theories have emphasized the importance of ego psychology, object relation and self psychology, the predominant factors they have emphasized is on individuals’ personal disposition that helps them in maintaining resilience. Similarly, cognitive theories have explained the concept of experiential