Collaborative Research: Uncovering and Utilizing the Dynamic Interplay between Work Recovery and Resilience

所有员工都会在某个时候遇到工作场所的逆境，如工作超负荷，角色模糊，人际冲突，滥用监督或工作家庭冲突。因此，迫切需要确定员工在面临困难的情况下实现工作效率和福祉的途径。工作复原力-在工作逆境中积极适应-是一个有利的工具，它提供了一条通往成功的道路，尽管有不利的经历。我们提出了一种未经探索的方法来提高弹性是通过恢复，其中非工作时间用于从工作日期间积累的疲劳和负面情绪中恢复。该项目的目标是了解心理（例如，脱离工作，放松）和身体（例如，睡眠、锻炼）恢复经验与工作弹性有关。确定在非工作时间内个人控制下的提高弹性的行为有可能使每个职业的个人，团队和组织受益。该项目的目标是揭示和模拟心理和身体的工作恢复经验与工作弹性的动态相互关系。本项目：1）评估将工作恢复和恢复力联系起来的潜在心理（疲劳）和生理（心率变异性）机制; 2）检查替代工作恢复经验的差异效应（即，心理和身体）对工作弹性;和3）描绘工作恢复和弹性之间的时间动态，揭示潜在的累积和相互作用。我们将进行两项经验抽样研究，使用（a）在标准每周工作时间工作的传统就业参与者样本和（B）轮班工人样本-至少部分在白班范围之外工作的替代轮班员工（例如，夜班和轮班员工）-以测试目前的模式。每项研究都是一项为期四周的每日调查研究，样本为100名在职成年人，其中包括客观的行为和生理指标。通过阐述不同恢复体验对工作复原力的相对重要性以及工作恢复与复原力之间的动态关系，本项目可以为在不可避免的逆境中提高组织有效性和员工幸福感提供理论基础。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

All employees will, at some point, encounter workplace adversities such as work overload, role ambiguity, interpersonal conflict, abusive supervision, or work-family conflict. Thus, there is a critical need to identify pathways through which employees can achieve work effectiveness and wellbeing, despite facing difficulties. Work resilience -- positive adaptation despite adversity at work -- is an advantageous tool that offers a path to success despite adverse experiences. We propose one unexplored way to increase resilience is through recovery, in which non-work time is used to recuperate from fatigue and negative mood built up during the work day. This project's goal is to understand how psychological (e.g., detachment from work, relaxation) and physical (e.g., sleep, exercise) recovery experiences relate to work resilience. Determining behaviors that improve resilience which are under individuals' control during their non-work time has the potential to benefit individuals, teams, and organizations across every occupation. The goal of this project is to uncover and model the dynamic interrelationship of psychological and physical work recovery experiences with work resilience. This project: 1) assesses potential psychological (fatigue) and physiological (heart rate variability) mechanisms that link work recovery and resilience; 2) examines the differential effects of alternative work recovery experiences (i.e., psychological and physical) on work resilience; and 3) delineates the temporal dynamics between work recovery and resilience, uncovering potential cumulative and reciprocal effects. We will conduct two experience sampling research studies using (a) a sample of traditionally employed participants who work during standard weekly business hours and (b) a sample of shift workers - employees who work alternative shifts that at least partially fall outside the daytime shift range (e.g., night shift and rotating shift employees) - to test the current model. Each study is a four-week daily survey study in a sample of 100 working adults that incorporates both objective behavioral and physiological indicators. By explicating the relative importance of different recovery experiences contributing to work resilience and the dynamic relationship between work recovery and resilience, this project could provide a theoretical foundation to enhance organizational effectiveness and employee wellbeing despite unavoidable adversities. Findings will be shared with research outlets, business practitioners, policy makers, and community members.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.