How do employees experience, cope with, and organise in the face of crises and threats?

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I am keen to research and understand how people experience, cope with, and organise in the face of crises or threats. In particular how people's suffering shapes individual or collective action? What are the impacts of their responses; how do they interact with one another, and with institutional structures? The aims of such research are to attenuate harm and suffering amongst employees. First by developing knowledge that enables employees to make sense of, cope with and organise more effectively when facing such situations. Second, by developing knowledge that can enable organisations to better support and equip employees in contexts of crises and threats. I think it is important to study these phenomena is because people and organisations will continue to face crises and threats in the future. Crises and threats can have negative impacts on employees and there is a need to better understand how such harm is potentiated or attenuated, and by whom. Firms dedicate large amount of resources to ensure employees cope with, manage and organise in response to crises and threats. Furthermore crises have traditionally been viewed as events taking place within a limited time frame but we see crises are becoming more sustained and less temporal (e.g. climate crisis or refugee/displacement crises). The notion that crises are more sustained means employees experience them for longer, and they play an increasing role in shaping organisational realities.Crises and threats share similarities in so far as they have the ability to cause harm or suffering to employees, and they create challenges for organisations and their operating environments. I am keen to explore the experiences and different types of suffering stemming from crises and threats as well as different organisational settings and occupations where they are experienced. As part of my master's thesis I spent time researching inside one of Europe's largest refugee camps in Lesbos, Greece but I am keen to explore the aforementioned questions in more conventional milieus and not just in'extreme contexts'. I use the term crises and threats not only to refer to low-probability and high impact events like natural disasters, pandemics, geopolitical conflicts, political crises, refugee crises but to include the notion of 'creeping crises' (sometimes also referred to as threats). As a threat they have the potential to disrupt society but as a realisation they can weaken or destabilise institutions and public trust. For example the growing use of social media as a channel for information and news in particular has created echo-chambers of conversation, and enabled disinformation campaigns and misinformation, making it harder for news and facts to be accepted. This threat has manifested in different events or episodes over the last decade. Creeping crises enlarge the scope of employees and organisations as potential sites of study in that they are crises or threats many 'conventional' organisations face.