Resilience - Publications - Faculty & Research

December 2018
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Improving Resilience Among Employees High in Depression, Anxiety, and Workplace Distress

By: Allison L. Williams, Acacia C. Parks, Grace Cormier, Julia Stafford and A.V. Whillans

Depression and anxiety are costly for both employees and employers, in terms of direct medical costs as well as costs stemming from lost productive time and missed days at work. Resilience training has been shown to improve workplace functioning for employees, which... View Details

Keywords: Depression; Anxiety; Engagement; Resilience; Presenteeism; Employee Engagement; Mental Health; Employees; Emotions; Health; Internet and the Web; Performance Productivity

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Building Resilient Organizations for Turbulent Times: Pathways for Driving Deep Change

Leaders of resilient organizations are masters of not only reacting to adversity but also of using headwinds to adapt and come out stronger.?This interactive program will provide a comprehensive model for how to develop and guide successful change within organizations.... View Details

08 Nov 2021
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Professor Mihir Desai: Resilient

05 Oct 2020
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Dudeja Resilience

02 Oct 2020
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Aga Resilience

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Global Innovation through Risk Resilience

23 Sep 2019
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Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

Resource Management, Improving Resilience Among Employees High in Depression, Anxiety, and Workplace Distress (pdf), which shows that a workplace-based wellness program can help employees suffering from mental health issues. A potential... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

04 Jun 2020
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Let's Talk Resilience

Keywords: COVID-19; financial crisis; leadership; human resources; entrepreneurship; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

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Adding Resilience to Your Career Toolkit

How can we handle adversity in our lives, whether it is the day-to-day stressors we face or major turbulence that hits us periodically? According to Professor Joshua Margolis, it is possible to build resilience by taking charge of how one both thinks about and reacts... View Details

Summer 2020
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Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains?: The COVID-19 Pandemic Should Be a Wake-up Call for Managers and Prompt Them to Consider Actions That Will Improve Their Resilience to Future Shocks

By: Willy C. Shih

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the complex interdependencies of globalized supply chains. While these global multistage production networks had spread during a relatively benign environment of falling trade barriers and increasing interdependencies among countries,... View Details

Keywords: Supply Chains; Pandemic; Resilience; Supply Chain Management; Supply Chain; Global Range; Health Pandemics; Disruption; System Shocks; Crisis Management; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Asia; Europe; China

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17 Dec 2019
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How to Become a More Resilient Leader

03 Dec 2021
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Professor Mihir Desai: Resilient

07 Jul 2020
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Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

27 May 2021
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A Year of Strength and Resilience

01 Sep 2020
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Maintaining a Resilient Democracy

While many in this election year are focused on issues that divide the United States and the damage this discord may be doing to democracy, historian David Moss offers a perspective rooted in American democracy’s resilient past. “There... View Details

Keywords: Deb Blagg

11 Jun 2021
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The Power of Resilience

but can be created through mindset, intention, and sense of purpose. These are all learnable skills, she says, that can be used to build resilience and better navigate the uncertainty and challenges we all confront. In this episode of... View Details

31 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

Resource Management, Improving Resilience Among Employees High in Depression, Anxiety, and Workplace Distress, which shows that a workplace-based wellness program can help employees suffering from mental health issues. A potential... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

08 Sep 2020
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Creating More Resilient Supply Chains

31 Oct 2023
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

would continue to bolster Senegal’s economy, like infrastructure investments and a booming agricultural industry. After less than a month of deliberation, the government of Senegal, through the ministry’s work, launched a $1.3 billion economic View Details

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Building Resiliency in McDonald's Supply Chain

By: David E. Bell, Damien McLoughlin and David Lane

Considers McDonald’s efforts to build resilience into its global supply chain so that the company and its suppliers can better navigate the increasing pressures and pace of climate change and regulatory change, including a focus on supplying sustainable beef, while the... View Details