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Bouncing Back to the Future: A Look at the Road Ahead for the Assessment of Resilience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

P. D. Harms*
Affiliation:
Department of Management, University of Alabama
Dustin Wood
Affiliation:
Department of Management, University of Alabama
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to P. D. Harms, Department of Management, University of Alabama, 101 Alston Hall, Box 870225, 361 Stadium Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487. E-mail: pdharms@cba.ua.edu

Extract

We appreciate the authors of the target article (Britt, Shen, Sinclair, Grossman, & Klieger, 2016) shining a spotlight on the important work being done in the study of resilience and providing a historical overview of how resilience has been conceptualized and assessed in the past. To add to this review, we would briefly like to comment on current developments in the field of resilience and related fields that may have broader implications for both the study of resilience and for many other topics in the industrial–organizational literature as well.

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Commentaries
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2016 

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