Making Teams More Resilient: Effects of Shared Transformational Leadership Training on Resilience

摘要

Resilience is of great importance to teams operating in complex environments, such as command and controlteams. Team resilience is the ability of teams to respond to sudden, unanticipated demands for performancequickly and with minimum decrement of performance. The objective of this study was to designand test a training intervention to make teams more resilient. In a between-subjects design utilizing a sampleof 35 three-person teams, two training manipulations were compared to each other and a controlgroup. Higher levels of team resilience were found when shared leadership was enforced through brieftraining of transformational-leadership behaviors. This study demonstrated the effectiveness of a relativelysmall training intervention in boosting resilience.