Revisiting resilience in Indian context

Abstract

This paper draw lessons on resilience from a case study of very humble self-help group (SHG) for women in India and make efforts to demonstrate resilience not as psychological capacity to tackle situational crisis while working in an organization.Further, a structural keyword search into major databases was made to revisit the concept of resilience in Indian context and it was found that there is a dearth of studies on Indian population. In order to explore the implications and significance of reslience for the discipline of organizational behaviour; 27 international studies specific to working population were reviewed using Rodger's method of concept analysis. Attributes, antecedents, and consequences of resilience in organizational context are also identified and practical implications are discussed.