Adversity and Team Resilience

Resilience has become a strategic imperative for addressing organizational, societal, and professional challenges. The emerging literature on team resilience specifically has helped clarify how teams develop capabilities to manage adversities. However, as the nature of the adversity itself has largely been overlooked, scholars have called for a stronger focus on the adversity that teams experience to deepen our understanding of how teams develop and demonstrate resilience. Therefore, the purpose of this presenter symposium is to advance research on team resilience by shinning a spotlight on team adversity, including how different forms of adversity influence the team resilience process. First, Raetze, Schmutz, Maynard, Mueller, and Steputat-Raetze use bibliometric methods to clarify the content domain and theoretical structure of team adversity, including the different ways that teams experience adversity. Second, Burke, Wiese, Szabo, and Kaosaar use historiometric analysis to identify distinct types of resilience triggers and explore how trigger characteristics engender particular behavioral and attitudinal responses within teams. Third, Easton, Mathieu, and Klock use a multi-method approach to explore the relationship between team resilience and performance, with a specific consideration to environmental stressors and event strength. Finally, Maynard, Mathieu, Kennedy, Tannenbaum, and Levy investigate the impact of dynamic environmental event influences on the resilience of Saturation Dive Teams who live and work in Isolated, Confined, and Extreme (ICE) conditions. All four papers offer important and novel perspectives that enhance our understanding of the nature of the adversities that teams encounter and how teams successfully manage various adversities in the resilience process. Altogether, these papers help move the emerging literature on team resilience forward in several meaningful ways. Teamwork Under Adversity: An Integrative Review and Future Research Agenda Author: Sebastian Raetze; Johannes Kepler U. Linz Author: Jan B. Schmutz; U. of Zurich Author: M. Travis Maynard; Colorado State U. Author: Helene Mueller; Technical U. Dresden Author: Anne Steputat-Raetze; Technical U. Dresden Battling the Sea: A Historiometric Investigation of Resilience in High Stakes Sailboat Racing Teams Author: Shawn Burke; U. of Central Florida Author: Christopher Wiese; Georgia Institute of Technology Author: Krisztina Szabo; U. of Central Florida Author: Andres Käosaar; U. of Central Florida Team Resilience Under Duress: A Mixed-Method Investigation of Relationships with Team Performance Author: Nathaniel Douglass Easton; Uconn Business School Author: John Mathieu; U. of Connecticut Author: Elizabeth Klock; U. of Connecticut An “in depth” Examination of Longitudinal Team Resilience – Performance Relations in ICE Conditions Author: M. Travis Maynard; Colorado State U. Author: John Mathieu; U. of Connecticut Author: Deanna M. Kennedy; U. of Washington, Bothell Author: Scott I Tannenbaum; The Group for Org. Effectiveness Author: Jamie Levy; The Group for Organizational Effectiveness, Inc