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Taking Time Seriously as a Component of Employee Resilience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

David K. Palmer
David K. Palmer*
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Department of Management, College of Business & Technology, University of Nebraska at Kearney
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Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to David K. Palmer, Department of Management, West Center 255W, College of Business & Technology, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, NE 68849. E-mail: [email protected]
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Britt, Shen, Sinclair, Grossman, and Klieger (2016) recommend that our understanding of resilience would be advanced by making its temporal nature explicit. As a dynamic process, resilience is historical and temporal. The animating adverse event(s) and the resilient response(s) are dynamic and unfold over time; they often unfold as trajectories. This notion of trajectories implies a dynamic process, one progressing from one response or adaptation to another. These “temporal processes are a bit of a black box in I-O research” (Britt et al., p. 394). What would an extension of Britt et al.’s recommendation that researchers explicitly integrate time or temporality look like? Fully acknowledging the importance of time in this model may suggest worthwhile future research and potential interventions.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , June 2016 , pp. 517 - 522
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2016 

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