Objective: This study develops, and initial evaluates, a new measure of team-based resilience for use in research and practice.
Methods: We conducted preliminary analyses, based on a cross-sectional sample of 344 employees nested within 31 teams.
Results: Seven dimensions were identified through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. The measure had high reliability and significant discrimination to indicate the presence of a unique team-based aspect of resilience that contributed to higher work engagement and higher self-rated team performance, over and above the effects of individual resilience. Multilevel analyses showed that team, but not individual, resilience predicted self-rated team performance.
Conclusion: Practice implications include a need to focus on collective as well as individual behaviors in resilience-building. The measure provides a diagnostic instrument for teams and a scale to evaluate organizational interventions and research the relationship of resilience to other constructs.