Can Employee Wellbeing and Resilience Contribute to Organizational Sustainability After COVID-19?

Introduction

Unexpected events have become an inevitable part of the today’s world of daily and business lives. The ability to maintain the lives and obtain sustainability have been more challenging. This is the era where most definitions have been evolving or most needs have been replacing with the ones which have not been cared much before. Managerial skills are required to include to have emotional intelligence for both managers and employees in order to show empathy and understand others better. In other words, the psychological needs of the individuals are needed to be prioritized within this rapidly changing era of pre and post pandemic period.

Individuals and organizations may share a common goal. Both of them expect to improve their welfare. The welfare of the organizations helps provide sustainability also supports the welfare of the community. However, the expectations of employees and the organizations have been increasing day by day in order to meet and satisfy the individual and organizational needs.

This chapter aims at highlighting the importance of wellbeing and resilience of the employees for sustainability considering the effects of the pandemic on employees and organizations. Also, the authors provide a critical overview of the importance of wellbeing and resilience which may be neglected in some of the today’s organizational structure.