Research Summaries

Back Key Factors of Organizational Resilience

Fiscal Year 2010
Division Graduate School of Business & Public Policy
Department Graduate School of Business & Public Policy
Investigator(s) Powley, Edward H.
Sponsor Bureau of Medicine & Surgery (Navy)
Summary Resilience is a critical capacity in a world where serious challenges threaten to immobilize and disrupt individuals and organizations. In particular, military units at home or deployed abroad face a multitude of stressors and risks which require strength and fortitude to remain intact. One of the key elements in Navy Marine Corps Combat and Operational Stress Control (OSC) has been the concept of individual resilience. Individual resilience speaks to the psychological and emotional strength to bounce back from difficult circumstances. An emerging key interest though, I show resilience can be developed and built over time to help organizations thrive. Simultaneous to building individual resilience, organizations ought to be able to develop and foster resilience in groups, departments, teams, and organizational units. During a meeting chaired by the OSC Coordinator in May 2010, a group of over 20 Navy researchers identified organizational resilience as vitally important in any stress-related initiatives. The proposed work aims to outline key factors of organizational resilience specifically applied to Nave and Marine Corps military organizational units. The research would provide a review of existing organizational measures and their applicability to Navy from which programmatic assessment could be developed.
Keywords Organizational Resilience and Healing Operational Stress Control
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