Description
Book SynopsisWork environments are paved with challenges and uncertainties that can result in the risk of setbacks and personal failure. Experiencing negative events such as these can be devastating for employees. This results in employees becoming distracted, detaching themselves from work and being unable to effectively engage in their work activities.
Work Life after Failure?: How Employees Bounce Back, Learn, and Recover from Work-Related Setbacks brings together the knowledge from three distinct concepts that currently lack integration: resilience, learning, and recovery. The authors regard resilience as the positive adaptation after adversity and examine aspects of learning from failure as a process of improvement through enhanced knowledge and understanding after negative professional experiences. The exploration of recovery is situated in the context of a process of reducing strain symptoms that were caused by work-related events. Together, these three concepts advance our understanding of how to effectively use personal resources to overcome the experience of failure and what organizations can do to support employees during these difficult times.
Encompassing both conceptual and empirical work from experts in the fields of resilience, learning from failure, and recovery, this book also sheds light on the classification of failures and setbacks and develops a measure of the setback severity.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Conceptualizing and Measuring the Severity of Setbacks at Work: An Event-Oriented Perspective;
Julia Backmann, Matthias Weiss, and Gisa Todt Part I. Recovery Chapter 2: Building Psychological Resources and Resilience after Failure at Work: A Self-regulatory Perspective on Recovery and Personality Development in the Face of Setback Experiences;
Stefan Diestel Chapter 3: A Multilevel Perspective on the Emergence of Failures in Teams and Their (Dys)Functional Coping Through Vicious and Virtuous Circles of Cohesion;
Stefan Razinskas Chapter 4: The Rites of Passage of Business Failure: A Socialized Sensemaking Approach;
Orla Byrne Part II: Resilience Chapter 5. Yes, We can Boost Resilience: Human Resource Management Practices to Build Resilience in the Workplace;
Alma Rodríguez-Sánchez Chapter 6. Resilience in the Goal Hierarchy: Strategy Change as a Form of Perseverance;
Danielle D. King and Dominique Burrows Chapter 7: The Moderating Role of Perceived Mistake Tolerance on the Relationship between Trait Resiliency and Turnover Intentions;
Laurence G. Weinzimmer Part III. Learning from Failure Chapter 8: Identifying and Learning from Setbacks in Negotiations;
Brooke A. Gazdag Chapter 9: (Not) Learning from Failure? The Heavy Toll of Stigma on Entrepreneurs;
Vivianna Fang He ad Gregor Kraehenmann Chapter 10: How Collaborative Networks Fail, With the Implications for Participants Learning;
Liisa Välikangas and Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa Chapter 11. Integrating and Contrasting Research on Recovery, Resilience, and Learning in the Face of and after Work-Related Failure Experiences;
Silja Hartmann
