Postgraduate Research - Are your employees resilient?

Is your company going through significant organisational change?

Do you need your employees to be more resilient?

Facing competitive pressure, digitalisation, and other global developments, many companies are implementing organisational change. As a consequence, leaders want staff to be adaptable and maintain a positive mindset. In other words: to be ”resilient”. But is resilience a quality or skill of employees alone? Or do organisational factors also impact the way that employees cope with change?

This is what Stéphane Reinink, owner of Crescent Apex Business Advisory, seeks to answer in his master’s Dissertation “Employee resilience during organisational change: The mediating effects of coping style and perceived organisational support”.

Conducting this research as part of the University of Liverpool’s MSc in Organisational and Business Psychology program, it investigates:

• Whether or not a relationship exists between resilience and perceived organisational support, during an ongoing change initiative
• How employee coping style might mediate this relationship
• Practical implications for how employers can better support employees during organisational change

HOW CAN YOU HELP? 

This research targets companies that are implementing organisational change. Employees would be asked to spend about 25 minutes to, voluntarily and strictly anonymously, complete an online questionnaire on resilience, coping style, and perceived organisational support. Data collection is scheduled to take place in May.

If your company is implementing change right now (or recently completed a significant change), and you are potentially interested to have your employees participate in this research, you are kindly invited to contact Stéphane Reinink at S.Reinink@liverpool.ac.uk or stephane_reinink@yxcrescentapex.onmicrosoft.com, for a more detailed briefing.

Participating organisations will be offered a presentation of key findings and practical implications upon completion of the study.

Thank you kindly for your consideration!