Employee resilience isn’t the magic bullet solution to adversity that organizations think it is

Employee resilience has recently become a must-have employee characteristic against the current background of volatility and rapid change in the workplace. (Shutterstock)

The combination of supply chain issues, rising inflation and labour challenges has had wide-ranging impacts on businesses. In order to deal with these obstacles, many organizations have turned to employee resilience to the weather the storm.

Studies have found that managers respond to business turbulence by emphasizing employee resilience in the workplace. Employee resilience is an individual’s ability to adapt to and cope with stressors and challenges in the workplace. The better an individual is at bouncing back from adversity, the more resilient they are.