What is it about?
Resilience is of great importance for teams and groups working in today's VUCA( volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) environment. Team resilience is the ability of the teams/groups to bounce back and sustain in the facade of adverse conditions. However despite the growing importance of the concept, there is lack of reliable and valid scale to measure team resilience in the literature. This study aims to fulfill this gap and develop and validate a scale to assess the resilience capacity of teams
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Why is it important?
To authors’ knowledge no attempt has been made worldwide to assess the resilience capacity of teams operating in IT Industry that are supposed to work under extreme work pressures and deadlines. The instrument (TeamRes ) developed in the study, may be used as a diagnostic tool for identifying the team resilience capacity and thereby acts as a starting point for increasing team resilience. Moreover identifying teams with lower resilience scores may assist organizations in tailoring strategies that might improve the teams’ effectiveness.
Perspectives
Author of this study has taken extensive literature on the concept of resilience and found that resilience operates at three levels in the work context i.e. individual, team and organizational. Team resilience has always taken a back seat among the three levels and considered to lie somewhere between individual and organizational resilience having no independent status of its own. Author of this study believes team resilience to be an e an important team level capacity that protects a group of individuals from the potential negative effect of stressors they collectively encounter, thus measurement of the same is highly essential . This study is a first step towards providing team resilience its independent kudos .
Ms. Shikha Sharma
University Business School, Panjab University, Chandigarh
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This page is a summary of: Team Resilience: Scale Development and Validation, Vision The Journal of Business Perspective, March 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0972262916628952.
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