TY - CHAP
T1 - Elite High-Performing Military Leaders
T2 - An Evidence-Based Analysis on the Role of Resilience in Military Careers
AU - Covington, Ingrid K.
AU - Malkowska, Wika
AU - Elsey, Vicki
PY - 2023/9/8
Y1 - 2023/9/8
N2 - Career resilience is a career resource predicting career success. Although research is in its infancy, this chapter addresses gaps in understanding this concept in the modern environment, offering unique insights into the role of career resilience in the successful journeys of elite, high-performing military leaders. Our evidence-based approach draws on different organizational perspectives—practitioner, academic, and other stakeholder views. We present a comprehensive review of career resilience through the lens of the military, concluding that career resilience is a dynamic, useful concept and resource for individuals and organizations, is usefully understood as a spectrum, can be fostered by organizational practices and culture, and underpinned by social support networks that evolve as individuals progress through organizational hierarchies. Ultimately, career resilience can be leveraged by individuals and organizations as a resource to enable them to thrive in the context of modern resilient careers. Providing a deeper understanding of career resilience from an evidence-based practice perspective, leaders, researchers, and practitioners will understand the theoretical context of career resilience relating to successful careers combined with insights into lived experiences of elite high-performing military leaders and those individual, organizational, and social support systems necessary to thrive in a volatile uncertain complex ambiguous (VUCA) environment.
AB - Career resilience is a career resource predicting career success. Although research is in its infancy, this chapter addresses gaps in understanding this concept in the modern environment, offering unique insights into the role of career resilience in the successful journeys of elite, high-performing military leaders. Our evidence-based approach draws on different organizational perspectives—practitioner, academic, and other stakeholder views. We present a comprehensive review of career resilience through the lens of the military, concluding that career resilience is a dynamic, useful concept and resource for individuals and organizations, is usefully understood as a spectrum, can be fostered by organizational practices and culture, and underpinned by social support networks that evolve as individuals progress through organizational hierarchies. Ultimately, career resilience can be leveraged by individuals and organizations as a resource to enable them to thrive in the context of modern resilient careers. Providing a deeper understanding of career resilience from an evidence-based practice perspective, leaders, researchers, and practitioners will understand the theoretical context of career resilience relating to successful careers combined with insights into lived experiences of elite high-performing military leaders and those individual, organizational, and social support systems necessary to thrive in a volatile uncertain complex ambiguous (VUCA) environment.
U2 - 10.4324/9781003287858-14
DO - 10.4324/9781003287858-14
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781032263441
SN - 9781032258041
T3 - Current Issues in Work and Organizational Psychology
SP - 189
EP - 212
BT - Resilience in Modern Day Organisations
A2 - Fotinatos-Ventouratos, Ritsa S. J.
A2 - Cooper, Cary L.
A2 - Antoniou, Alexander-Stamatois G.
PB - Taylor & Francis
CY - London
ER -