Models of Organisational Resilience

Question 1

What is organisational resilience?

Answer 1

It is the ability to rebound from unexpected, stressful, adverse situations and pick up where they left off.

Question 2

What is the HR system model?

Answer 2

This model suggests that a capacity for resilience is directly related to an organizations HR system.

Question 3

What are the some employee contributions?

Answer 3

• Expertise
• Opportunism
• Creativity
• Decisiveness despite uncertainty
• Questioning fundamental assumptions
• Conceptualizing solutions that are novel and appropriate

Question 4

What does these 6 employee contributions do?

Answer 4

It enables a collective mindset that is conductive to achieving organizational resilience.

Question 5

What are some of the HR Principles that are related to cognitive dimension?

Answer 5

• Develop a partnership orientation with employees
• Localize decision making power
• Create fluid team-based work and job design
• Build relational rather than transactional relationships with employees
• Minimize rules and procedures
• Hire to ensure a range of different experiences, perspectives, paradigms, and competencies are available in the work force
• Place high value on pluralism and individual differences
• Invest in human capital
• Use both formal and informal social integration mechanisms

Question 6

What are the cognitive dimensions useful for?

Answer 6

They are designed to create a work space in which simple rules and core organizational values shape priorities and guide behavior in unexpected events. These are also intended to nurture individual differences.

Question 7

What are some of the HR Principles related to behavioral dimension?

Answer 7

• Develop a culture of organizational ambidexterity
• Create climate of open communication and collaboration
• Encourage problem solving process tied to organizational learning
• Encourage knowledge sharing
• Enable rapid development of human resources
• Emphasize organizational learning
• Encourage reflective practice
• Eliminate organizational boarders

Question 8

What are the behavioral dimensions useful for?

Answer 8

It creates a workplace where employees can feel confident in their ability to explore new options. This dimension is designed to promote a team oriented culture.

Question 9

What are some of the HR Principles related to contextual dimension?

Answer 9

• Encourage social interactions both inside and outside organizations
• Nurture a climate of reciprocal trust and interdependence
• Develop facilitative communication structures
• Develop self-management and self-leadership capabilities
• Emphasize contributions and outcomes rather than tasks
• Encourage an organizational orientation
• Reinforce organizational citizenship, personal accountability, and power based on expertise rather than hierarchical position
• Create broad resource networks

Question 10

What are the contextual dimensions useful for?

Answer 10

These reinforce the multilevel, systematic relationships that are essential for developing a capacity for organizational resilience.

Question 11

What does the cognitive, behavioral and contextual dimensions do?

Answer 11

Through them individual level actions and interactions can emerge as collective organizational attributes.