EAPSI:Investigating the Role of Organizational Identification and Collective Support in Fostering Workplace Resilience

由于大多数个人和集体在其一生中都会遇到挑战，包括共同的危机（例如恐怖袭击、自然灾害），学习如何将这些负面经历与适应性结果联系起来可能对所有人都有益。更具体地说，由于组织成员是许多人生活中至关重要的因素，调查组织在康复中扮演的角色可以提供相关知识。目前的研究将通过使用组织认同和集体支持来检查达到预期最终状态的潜力，从而调查共同逆境后工作场所的弹性。这项研究将与Joana Kuntz博士合作进行，Joana Kuntz博士是新西兰基督城坎特伯雷大学员工弹性研究小组（EmpRes）的创始人，也是员工和组织弹性方面的知名专家。新西兰是检验集体逆境和组织弹性的理想地点，因为许多组织目前正在经历？坎特伯雷重建?由于最近的地震破坏。这种共同的逆境，加上不断扩大的商业产业，使新西兰成为一个独特而理想的地方来调查当前的假设，也是一个可能从研究成果中受益匪浅的地区。目前的工作将弹性研究与其他理论框架（即社会认同理论，组织行为和职业健康）相结合，试图超越个人层面的因素，并检查可用于为研究和恢复工作提供信息的多层次影响。这项调查是新颖的，也可能有用，因为它将检查可能帮助工人的集体和组织因素，特别是那些可能不会。反弹吗?从经历过的艰辛。这项工作旨在通过将先前的研究结果扩展到集体逆境，并结合对可以帮助团体和个人应对集体压力的组织资源的检查，进一步推动弹性研究的前景，以纠正人类的痛苦。NSF EAPSI奖是与新西兰皇家学会合作资助的。

As most individuals and collectives will experience challenges throughout their lives, including shared crises (e.g. terrorist attacks, natural disasters), learning how these negative experiences can be linked to adaptive outcomes may be beneficial to all. More specifically, as organizational membership is a crucial element in the lives of many, investigating the role organizations can play in recovery offers relevant knowledge. The current research will investigate resilience in the workplace following shared adversity by examining the potential for reaching desired end states through the use of organizational identification and collective support. This research will be conducted in collaboration with Dr. Joana Kuntz, a noted expert on employee and organizational resilience and founder of the Employee Resilience Research Group (EmpRes), at the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand. New Zealand serves as the ideal location to examine collective adversity and organizational resilience, as many organizations are currently undergoing the ?Canterbury Rebuild? due to recent earthquake devastation. Such shared adversities, paired with the expanding business industry, make New Zealand a unique and ideal place to investigate current hypotheses and also an area that may benefit greatly from research findings.The current work integrates resilience research with other theoretical frameworks (i.e. social identity theory, organizational behavior, and occupational health) in an attempt to go beyond individual-level factors and examine multilevel effects that can be used to inform research and recovery efforts. This investigation is novel and also potentially useful because it will examine collective and organizational factors that may assist workers, especially those who would likely not ?bounce back? from experienced hardships. This work aims to further the promise of resilience research to redress human suffering by extending previous findings to collective adversity and incorporating an examination of the organizational resources that can assist groups and individuals in coping with collective strain. This NSF EAPSI award is funded in collaboration with the Royal Society of New Zealand.