ABSTRACT
This chapter expands the Life-Work Continuum of the Human Centered Management paradigm by examining family resilience during disruptions and crises. Considering the recent Covid-19 pandemic, the discussion shows how the family, one of the oldest and most enduring forms of human organization, develops resilience to ensure human survival particularly during disruptions. The discussion includes family as prototype for groups of people dealing with common challenges affecting personal and group behaviors. From this perspective, the family is a space for practicing how to deal with disruptions because families shape life by reinforcing behavior patterns that persist overtime, for generations, that affect future family resilience capabilities. Family resilience is comprised of individual and family resilience resources that create “resilience spirals” that protect families during disruptions, directly affecting individual and family wellbeing. Family resilience and wellbeing have direct and indirect effects on organizations and society through multilayered social resilience processes.
