2 RESILIENCE AT AN INDIVIDUAL LEVEL
It starts with the person
It goes without saying that the basic element of any organizational system is the individual person. It is individuals that perform functions at a micro-level, work together in teams towards common goals, come up with new ideas and innovations, make decisions on how to allocate scarce resources, and inspire others and lead. Organizing for resilience, then, needs to appreciate how the concept of resilience at an individual level is understood, researched and debated. Reviews of the research field on resilience underline how individuals are at the hub of an organization's ability to cope (Van der Vegt et al., 2015). However, much of the literature on resilience at an individual level ...
