Integrating and Contrasting Research on Recovery, Resilience, and Learning in the Face of and after Work-Related Failure Experiences

Abstract

Given the uncertain and often disruptive business environment, understanding how employees, teams, and organizations can recover from stress, build long-lasting resilience, and exploit failures as learning opportunities is key for employees’ well-being and organizational success. The book has been organized in three sections, each representing a major domain of inquiry: recovery, resilience, and learning. The chapters within each section elaborate on these domains, and each provides novel ideas and insights. The goal of this chapter is to summarize and integrate some themes and insights offered by the chapters in this book. Based on this summary and integration, the author will illuminate some exciting paths opened up by these chapters, which might be worth exploring further by other scholars in the future. Specifically, future research could benefit from (1) stronger integration of research on recovery, resilience, and learning from failure, (2) better understanding of the role of setbacks, failure, and adversity for recovery, resilience, and learning, and (3) investigations of the role of context for recovery, resilience, and learning from failure.

Citation

Hartmann, S. (2021), "Integrating and Contrasting Research on Recovery, Resilience, and Learning in the Face of and after Work-Related Failure Experiences", Todt, G., Backmann, J. and Weiss, M. (Ed.) Work Life After Failure?: How Employees Bounce Back, Learn, and Recover from Work-Related Setbacks, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 191-202. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83867-519-620211012