Contributing Factors to Team Resilience

Abstract

Introduction. Organizational performance depends upon both individual competencies and team dynamics. The collective ability to collaborate, adapt, recover, and maintain performance is as, or perhaps more, critical to organizational success than the skills or performance of any one team member. As such, it is important for organizations to account for resilience at both the individual and team levels. However, most of the extant research has been devoted to exploring individual resilience rather than team resilience. The current study aimed to fill this knowledge gap by exploring several predicted factors related to team resilience within a deployed military operational environment. Materials and Methods. This study utilized a large sample of naval personnel who completed the Afloat Safety Climate Assessment Survey (N>11,000). Analyses included structural equation modeling to explore several possible factors related to team resilience, including minimizing factors (e.g., job resources and team processes), stressors, and mending efforts (e.g., exercise and socializing). Results. Analyses indicated that each factor differentially contributed to team resilience. Whereas stressors and mending efforts had a nominal influence on team resilience, minimizing factors easily emerged as the largest predictor of team resilience. Minimizing factors also had a significant influence on stressors experienced in the operational environment. Conclusions. These findings thus suggest that team resilience in a chronic stress environment may depend upon prioritizing team processes related to goals, expectations, and training resources. The outcome is notably different from previous work given the context of a naval operational environment, where stressors can be prolonged and team dynamics are critical to all personnel departments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 11, 2023
Accession Number
AD1207892

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  • Adam T. Biggs
  • Dale W Russell
  • Kevin Lai

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Psychology
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • California
  • Factor Analysis
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Personnel
  • Navy
  • Navy Aircraft
  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Surveys
  • Training
  • United States
  • United States Government

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