TITLE:
“The Same Staff Can Be Enough”. Employers’ Resilience Strategies in Recruitment Decisions
AUTHORS:
Raimondo Ingrassia
KEYWORDS:
Organizational Resilience, Unexpected Positive Events, Resilience Strategies of Employers, Recruitment
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Industrial and Business Management,
Vol.8 No.3,
March
21,
2018
ABSTRACT: Studies
on resilience have sprung from a need to understand the survival strategies of
organizations when faced with the emergence of unexpected, potentially
destructive and negative events in the lives of the organizations. This
article, on the other hand, intends to highlight organizational resilience when
confronted with unexpected positive events, seldom considered by such studies.
This is the well-known macroeconomic phenomenon of the time lag between economic growth and labor demand at the moment
that a regressive economic cycle is reversed. With which strategies do
companies, in the face of such an event, transform a resilient attitude into
real resilient behavior? Five strategies of organizational resilience are
identified: Flexibility of working hours, staff re-allocation, minimization of
turnover and absenteeism, job redesign, and reorganization of operations. A
summary of results, managerial implications, contributions to studies and
indications for future research conclude the article.