Resilience at Work by Deborah M Khoshaba, Salvatore R Maddi

Resilience

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What are the stress/strain related performance & Health Symptoms that Employees may have ?

 -- worry more 

 -- Feel hopelessness

 -- experience aches and pains

 -- Let problems preoccupy them

 -- Act like a victim 

 -- Feel angry and bitter about the world

 -- Sleep poorly 

 -- Finish tasks inadequately or not on schedule

 -- endup having diseases like - arteriosclerosis, cancer, or obesity

 

What Reilient Employees do ?

 -- Turn disruptive changes and conflicts from potential disaster into growth opportunity

 -- Resolve conflicts. turn disruptive changes into new directions.

 -- Learn for the process and become more successful and satisfied in the process.

 -- Don't let their boss's stress related outbursts undermine their work. they help their boss more to ease his work pressure

 

 How to remain resilience under stress 

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 Culitvate a group of attitude and skills, collectively called - Hardiness

 

 -- The attitudes are the 3Cs of - commitment, control, and challenge. 

 -- As times get tough -

     -- You to stay involved with the people and events around you (commitment) rather than to pull out,

     -- Keep trying to influence the outcomes in which you are involved (control) rather than to give up, 

-- Try to discover how you and others can grow through the stress (challenge) rather than to bemoan your fate. 

-- These 3Cs amount to the courage and motivation to do the hard but important work of using stressful circumstances to your advantage.

-- It is the combination of hardy attitudes and skills that helps people survive and thrive under stress.