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A Measure of Team Resilience: Developing the Resilience at Work Team Scale
Kathryn McEwen1, Carolyn M Boyd
1Working with Resilience, Adelaide, Australia (Ms McEwen and Ms Boyd) with special thanks to colleagues Ms Rochelle Colon and Ms Emily Lawrie.
This study introduces a new team resilience measure, finding that collective resilience, not individual, boosts team performance and engagement. This highlights the importance of team dynamics in building organizational resilience.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Organizational Behavior
- Social Science
Background:
- Resilience is crucial for individual and team functioning in dynamic environments.
- Existing measures often focus on individual resilience, neglecting team-level dynamics.
- Understanding team-based resilience is essential for enhancing organizational effectiveness.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and validate a novel measure of team-based resilience.
- To investigate the unique contribution of team resilience to work engagement and performance.
- To differentiate team resilience from individual resilience in predicting team outcomes.
Main Methods:
- Cross-sectional study with 344 employees across 31 teams.
- Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses to identify measure dimensions.
- Multilevel analyses to examine the predictive validity of team and individual resilience.
Main Results:
- A seven-dimension measure of team-based resilience was developed with high reliability.
- Team resilience uniquely predicted higher work engagement and self-rated team performance.
- Team resilience, not individual resilience, was a significant predictor of self-rated team performance.
Conclusions:
- Team resilience is a distinct construct that positively impacts team outcomes.
- Organizations should foster collective resilience alongside individual resilience-building efforts.
- The new measure serves as a diagnostic tool for assessing team resilience and evaluating interventions.
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