ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews some of the main trends in resilience research and discusses implications for building resilience in the organizational context. It is important to emphasize at the outset that the nature and determinants of resilience are very different at individual, team, and organizational levels. The chapter focuses on the resilience of people at both the individual and group level. The complex relationships between personality traits and resilience highlight the need to take context into account. The chapter also focuses on the emerging construct of team resilience, which regards as being absolutely fundamental to building a resilient organization in any context. When it comes to developing assessments of team resilience, it is very early days, with most approaches to date drawing on existing person or situation measures and extrapolating these to the construct of team resilience. Contextualizing resilience is similar to calls for Situational Leadership.
