Developing a workplace resilience instrument.

BACKGROUND: Resilience benefits from the use of protective factors, as opposed to risk factors, which are associated with vulnerability. Considerable research and instrument development has been conducted in clinical settings for patients. The need existed for an instrument to be developed in a work...

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Publicado en:Work Vol. 54; no. 2; pp. 241 - 254
Autores principales: Mallak, Larry A., Yildiz, Mustafa
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. 2016
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          Mallak, Larry A.
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        affil: Department of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Engineering & Engineering Management, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA
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          Hardiness
          Stress, Occupational
          Instrument Validation
          Instrument Construction
          Human
          Validation Studies
          Female
          Male
          Adolescence
          Adult
          Middle Age
          Factor Analysis
          Data Analysis Software
          Confidence Intervals
          P-Value
          Problem Solving
          Funding Source
          Health Facility Administrators
          Nursing Staff, Hospital
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          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Adult: 19-44 years
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      ab: BACKGROUND: Resilience benefits from the use of protective factors, as opposed to risk factors, which are associated with vulnerability. Considerable research and instrument development has been conducted in clinical settings for patients. The need existed for an instrument to be developed in a workplace setting to measure resilience of employees. OBJECTIVE: This study developed and tested a resilience instrument for employees in the workplace. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS:The research instrumentwas distributed to executives and nursesworking in the United States in hospital settings. Five-hundred-forty completed and usable responses were obtained. The instrument contained an inventory of workplace resilience, a job stress questionnaire, and relevant demographics. The resilience items were written based on previous work by the lead author and inspired by Weick's [1] sense-making theory. RESULTS:Afour-factor model yielded an instrument having psychometric properties showing good model fit. Twenty items were retained for the resulting Workplace Resilience Instrument (WRI). Parallel analysis was conducted with successive iterations of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. Respondents were classified based on their employment with either a rural or an urban hospital. Executives had significantly higher WRI scores than nurses, controlling for gender. WRI scores were positively and significantly correlated with years of experience and the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire. CONCLUSIONS: An instrument to measure individual resilience in the workplace (WRI) was developed. The WRI's four factors identify dimensions of workplace resilience for use in subsequent investigations: Active Problem-Solving, Team Efficacy, Confident Sense-Making, and Bricolage.
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