A Workplace Dignity Perspective on Resilience: Moving Beyond Individualized Instrumentalization to Dignified Resilience. Issue 4 (November 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bal, Matthijs; Kordowicz, Maria; Brookes, Andy
• Other Names: Mendy John guest-editor.; Bal P. Matthijs guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Advances in developing human resources. Volume 22:Issue 4(2020)
• Page Start: 453
• Page End: 466
• Publication Date: 2020-11
• Subjects: resilience -- ideology -- dignity -- performance -- instrumentality; Personnel management -- Periodicals; Organizational effectiveness -- Periodicals; Human capital -- Periodicals; 658.30105
• DOI: 10.1177/1523422320946115
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1523-4223

Abstract

The Problem: Resilience discourses in society and the contemporary workplace tend to emphasize the self-directed nature of resilience and the imposed demand for resilience for survival in the contemporary labor market. The Solution: In this article, the anchoring point of resilience is analyzed when conceptualized within a neoliberal and self-directed ideology. Subsequently, it offers an alternative anchoring point through a dignity-perspective on resilience, through which the term is reinterpreted in a new meaning. The Stakeholders: This article offers scholars, practitioners and policy-makers insights into how resilience can be conceptualized and used in practice. Analyzing resilience through a dignity lens provides new meanings and more effective uses of resilience in society and the contemporary workplaces.