1st Edition
Resilience in Modern Day Organizations
This international and thought-provoking volume addresses both theoretical and conceptual issues of resilience in modern organizations, looking at areas of concern and providing suggestions for future preventative measures.
In recent years, organizations across the world have been subjected to major upheavals as several crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Economic Crisis, and the Migratory Crisis, have contributed to the changing landscape of work. Individuals, organizations, and societies have been forced to re-think, re-adjust, and re-align in the face of adversity. The “survivors” of such upheavals are those who come to grips with the new realities of our times and encompass resilience in its entirety. This timely collection assesses resilience on critically important variables, such as socio-economic status, occupational type, and gender differences, and highlights preventative measures that organizations and individuals should take to maximise wellbeing and adjustment in these everchanging and challenging times.
Essential reading for students, scholars, practitioners, and policy makers, this volume sheds light on the multi-faceted ways to enhance the resilience paradigm and offers insights into implications for future research in the area.
Introduction: Resilience in Modern Day Organisations
Ritsa S. J. Fotinatos-Ventouratos., Cary. L. Cooper, and Alexander-Stamatios. G. Antoniou
Part I. Resilience in Perspective: Theoretical, Conceptual and Scientific Factors
1. What are you thinking? Understanding the Cognitive Dimension of Resilience Capacity
Cynthia Lengnick-Hall., Tammy Beck, and Haley Myers Woznyj
2. Individual, Team, and Organisational Resilience: A Multi-Level Dynamic Relationship
Andrew James Clements and Gail Kinman
3. Configuring Team Boundary Spanning for Resilience
Thomas A. de Vries., Gerben S. van der Vegt, and Nevena Ivanovic
4. Career Adaptability and Career Resilience in the Workplace
Nikos Drosos and Alexander-Stamatios G. Antoniou
5. Unpicking Organisational Resilience: A Systems Perspective on Uncertainty, Information, and the Potential for Crisis
Denis Fischbacher-Smith
Part II. Resilience Under Examination: Occupational and Contextual Issues of Concern
6. Stress and Resilience in the Human Services: The Importance of Radical Social-Ecological Systems Perspectives
Kate van Heugten
7. Applying a Psychologically Informed Approach to Resilience in Health and Social Care Organizations
Felicity R.L. Baker, Kevin L. Baker and Jo Burrell
8. Building Resilience in Social Work: A Multi-Level Approach
Gail Kinman and Louise Grant
9. Resilience as a Leadership Trait in Modern Organizations
Alexander-Stamatios G. Antoniou, Evangelia Markopoulou, and Virginia-Eirini Angelou
10. Resilience: From the Frontlines to the Boardroom
Sakshi Bansal
11. Elite High-performing Military Leaders: An Evidence-Based Analysis on the role of Resilience in Military Careers
Ingrid K. Covington., Wika Malkowska and Vicki Elsey
Part III. Enhancing the Resilience Paradigm: Scientific Implications for Future Research
12: Revisiting Assumptions About Resilience Effects: Adaptive Versus Maladaptive Resilience Processes in Organizations
Tisnue Jean-Baptiste, Danielle King, Nick Banerjee, and Ida Du
13. Role of Organization to Build Resilient Employees
Radhika Thanki and D. M. Pestonjee
Biography
Ritsa S. J. Fotinatos-Ventouratos is a Professor of Psychology at Deree College, The American College of Greece, where she has been lecturing for over 20 years. She obtained her Doctorate Degree in Organizational Psychology from UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology), UK. Her areas of research lie in the field of psychological wellbeing at work, occupational stress, gender differences, as well as investigating the social impact on the changing and diverse nature of the world of work.
Sir Cary L. Cooper is the 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. He is a founding President of the British Academy of Management, Immediate Past President of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), former President of RELATE, President of the Institute of Welfare, and Chair of the National Forum for Health and Wellbeing at Work (comprised of 50 global employers).
Alexander-Stamatios G. Antoniou is Professor of Psychology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens/Greece and director of the Social and Organisational Psychology Lab. He holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and three PhDs in Psychology, Philosophy, and Management from universities in Greece and in the UK (The University of Manchester and UMIST). He is the director of two academic series and editor/co-editor with distinguished scholars of 22 edited books. His main research interests include work well-being, business ethics, moral leadership, and vulnerable groups at work.
"On the heels of a world-wide pandemic when both individuals and organizations are dealing with economic upheaval and uncertainty, a reconsideration of the notion of resilience is both important and timely. In Resilience in Modern Day Organizations, the editors have produced such a review. The international slate of chapter authors consider the nature and effects of resilience at different levels of the organization, apply these considerations to specific occupations and occupational contexts and conclude by pointing to the implications of their review for individuals, organizations and researchers. The book will be a welcome addition to the library of anyone interested in fostering healthy workplaces and resilience in organizations."
E. Kevin Kelloway, Ph.D., University Research Professor, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
"Fotinatos-Ventouratos, Sir Cary Cooper, and Antoniou have edited a valuable volume on resilience in modern organizations. The post-COVID work world demands the scientific, professional, and applied information offered by these leading global scholars. This volume is essential reading!"
James Campbell Quick FSAScot FAPA, Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Colonel, United States Air Force (Ret.), LOM Arlington Veterans Park Foundation Fort Worth Air Power Council.
