What is Organizational Resilience

Organizational resilience is herein defined as the ability to positively manage environmental instability over time operationalized by strong corporate social responsibility (CSR). Appropriate CSR can help align business practices both in and outside the organization with current significant economic, social, environmental, and public health issues. Both academics and practitioners have discussed resilience as a voluntary and unobservable paradigm typically measured by outcomes. It is the hope of the author and the aim of this chapter that the sustain optimize change model and its renewed approach to optimized change management will expand corporate social responsibility awareness and activities, that address vulnerabilities, and build resilience in retort to augmented social inequalities.