Employee

Resilience
Mehermah Shafat
Hadiqa Rashid
Daniyal Hasan
Tabish Faisal
Farrukh Imran
Defining Resilience
 Resilience is defined as the ability of an individual
to bounce back from a traumatic experience and
is related to the capacity to recover from a
setback, any difficult situation or toughness.
 Organizational resilience can be defined as a
function of an organization’s overall situation
awareness, management of keystone
vulnerabilities, and adaptive capacity in a
complex, dynamic, and interconnected
environment (McManus, Seville, Vargo, &
Brunsdon, 2008, p. 82)
Problem Statement
 Resilientseems to be one of the best
predictors of an employee’s capacity to
be an effective contributor and to add
value to an organization
 Past research claiming to study
employee resilience suffers from a lack
of conceptual clarity about both the
resilience construct and the
methodological designs
Research Objectives
 What is resilience of an employee working in an
organization?
 How do various factors such as optimism, adaptability,
stress management etc. impact resilience in an
organization?
 Empirically investigate previously untested assumptions of
how resilience at individual (trait resilience) level and
organizational level interact.
 Investigate any potential benefits to work-related attitudes
that may arise through supporting wellbeing at work.
 How organizational politics impacts the resilience of
employees.
Theoretical Framework
 Dependent Variable: The core elements that represents our area of study is
“Employee Resilience”

Independent Variables: Countless independent variables can be extracted from our

dependent variable, few of which are mentioned below are extracted from the study
by Legan and Seward (2016) and Winwood et al; (2013)
- Optimism
- Sense of Purpose
- Determination
- Managing Stress
- Relationships
- Work Environment
- Staying Healthy
- Adaptability
The following variable was added to fill the gap of the previous researches on
employee resilience:
- Organizational Politics
Research Design
 Sample

 Data Collection Method

 Industry Practices
(Findings)
 Sense of purpose

3.7
Sense of Purpose
140 3.65
120
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SENSE OF PURPOSE SOP1
SENSE OF PURPOSE SOP2 3.4
SENSE OF PURPOSE SOP3
3.35
 Determination

Determination 3.95
140 3.9
120
100
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DETERMINATION D1 DETERMINATION D2 3.55

DETERMINATION D3 3.5
3.45
  Work Environment

3.8
Work Enviornment
3.75
140
120
100
80
60 3.7
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3.5
WORK ENVIRONMENT W1
WORK ENVIRONMENT W2 3.45
WORK ENVIRONMENT W3
3.4
  Managing Stress

3.5
Managing Stress
3.48
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60 3.46
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3.38
MANAGING STRESS M1
MANAGING STRESS M2 3.36
MANAGING STRESS M3
3.34
  Staying Healthy

4.2
Staying Healthy
140 4
120
100
80
60 3.8
40
20
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3.2
STAYING HEALTHY SH1
STAYING HEALTHY SH2 3
  Adaptability

3.8
Adaptibility
100
90 3.75
80
70
60
50
40
30 3.7
20
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ADAPTIBILITY A1 ADAPTIBILITY A2
3.55
  Relationship

3.7
Relationship 3.6
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60 3.4
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RELATIONSHIP R1 RELATIONSHIP R2 2.8
RELATIONSHIP R3
2.7
  Optimism

Optimism 3.8
140 3.7
120
100
80 3.6
60
40
20 3.5
0
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O1 O2 O3
 Organizational Politics

3.3
Organizational Politics
140 3.2
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20
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ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS OP1
ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS OP2
2.7
ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS OP3
 Analysis
Variable Relations Optimism Sense of Determin Managing Work Staying Adaptabili Org.
hip Purpose ation Stress Environm Healthy ty Politics
ent

Mean 3.38 3.58 3.56 3.75 3.43 3.63 3.69 3.69 3.07

Score

4
3.5
3
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
Recommendations
 Organizations should develop reliable
ways to deal with personal stress and
stress at work place..
 Teach and stress upon the importance of
developing a close network of friends
and family.
 Organizations should help individuals
develop a sense of purpose