Organisational Resilience<\/h5>\n
In addition to individuals, it is especially necessary that organisations\u2014in light of present-day social, economic, and ecological developments\u2014react as flexibly as possible to changes in the environment (digital transformation, climate crisis) and adapt themselves to constantly changing conditions. In doing so, attention must be paid to striking a good balance between stability and elasticity when working toward goals.<\/p>\n
9 factors that influence organisational resilience:<\/p>\n
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- A shared vision and a clear objective<\/li>\n
- Understanding and influencing the surrounding environment<\/li>\n
- Effective and encouraging leadership<\/li>\n
- A resilience-promoting culture<\/li>\n
- Information- and knowledge-sharing<\/li>\n
- Resource availability<\/li>\n
- Coordinated organisational areas (collaboration across departmental boundaries)<\/li>\n
- The promotion of continual improvement<\/li>\n
- The anticipation and management of change<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Trust, common goals, and clear values unite and strengthen people in organisations as well as leaders who count on participation and multiperspectivity in order to provide orientation in times of great complexity and unpredictability.<\/p>\n
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Source: mensch-im-wandel.de<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n A responsibly led organisation encourages a learning culture that focuses on autonomous learning and allows for mistakes. This makes possible further development, personal growth, and participation. A positive effect can be had here by actively pursued knowledge management that maintains and updates knowledge of processes and decision-making structures while also keeping this knowledge in circulation among an organisation\u2019s employees\u2014thereby easing organisation-wide collaboration and both smooth and effective interactions in the interest of achieving commonly held goals.<\/p>\n
The close collegial exchange that, at the mdw, takes place within and between departments, research centres, dean\u2019s offices, the organisational units of the University\u2019s administration, the student body, the University leadership, others in leadership positions, and employees in general as well as with numerous colleagues from other institutions has, in our present crisis situation, contributed to the mdw\u2019s situational elasticity. It was thus that, as the COVID crisis was beginning, the mdw clearly avoided descending into a shocked state of pandemic paralysis. Quite the contrary: by bundling its various resources, the mdw adapted quickly to the situation at hand\u2014finding creative ways in which to sustain teaching, practicing, researching, testing, and administration.<\/p>\n
Leadership in Resilient Organisations<\/h5>\n
People in leadership positions need to assume the central task of integrating those aspects that promote individual employee resilience and those that promote organisational resilience into everyday working life, cultivating them as a group. Furthermore, leaders need to work together with their entire teams to develop a lasting awareness of the reciprocal effects of attitude, behaviour, action, and environment.<\/p>\n
Resilience represents an integral factor in future viability. And resilience also enables us to proceed in a mindful fashion in the here and now. It is thanks to resilience that we adapt more easily to new conditions, and it is with resilience that we can succeed in shaping our future in a forward-looking manner.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nOn this topic, see also:<\/h5>\n
Human Resources Development Office \u2013 Center for Further Education
\n(all courses below in German unless otherwise noted!)
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- Recognising Psychological Risks and Taking Action. My Role as a Leader in the Workplace, 22 October 2021<\/li>\n
- Leadership in Processes of Change, 7 December 2021<\/li>\n
- Understanding Conflicts for Leaders, 22 April 2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Teambuilding Retreats: mdw.ac.at\/zfw\/klausurberatung
\n<\/a>Lectures for Future: at.scientists4future.org\/lectures<\/a><\/p>\nSources:<\/h5>\n