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Advancing Employee Resilience Research: Additional Thoughts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Natalie E. Wolfson  and
Casey Mulqueen
Natalie E. Wolfson*
Affiliation:
TRACOM Group, Centennial, Colorado
Casey Mulqueen
Affiliation:
TRACOM Group, Centennial, Colorado
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Natalie E. Wolfson, TRACOM Group, 6675 South Kenton Street, Suite 118, Centennial, CO 80111. E-mail: nwolfson@tracom.com
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Britt, Shen, Sinclair, Grossman, and Klieger (2016) draw attention to issues in the psychological literature regarding how we define, assess, select for, and build employee resilience. We offer a handful of recommendations for complementing and expanding on these important issues. Specifically, we propose that research should include more common forms of workplace adversity, versus extreme and rare types of adversity; resilience should be assessed via objective multirater methodology rather than subjective self-report; because context is important when studying resilience, researchers should delineate the purposes of the research; resilience should be treated as a malleable rather than a fixed characteristic; and finally, the field would benefit from qualitative research in addition to quantitative research.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , June 2016 , pp. 452 - 456
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2016 

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