Rethinking Employee Resilience

Transforming workplace culture amid institutional collapse and escalating burnout, this evidence-based guide redefines resilience as a systemic challenge. It debunks burnout myths and offers tailored on-ramps for building human-centric organizations that empower employees, ensuring lasting wellbeing and security. Rethinking Employee Resilience is a practical, evidence-based guide to creating workplaces that invest in their workforce - the backbone of every organization. In an era of institutional collapse, workforce resilience isn't a luxury it's non-negotiable. Burnout has quietly become the new normal. As trust in institutions crumbles and career stability feels like a relic of the past, organizations face a choice: cling to outdated models or redefine their cultures to prioritize human resilience. This book challenges the self-help industry's one-size-fits-all narrative, reframing burnout as a systemic issue embedded within organizational culture. It unfolds in three parts: debunking common burnout myths, redefining employee resilience, and offering tailored on-ramps' for organizations of all sizes. Drawing from his work as a clinical psychologist in Afghanistan, where he provided mental health care to thousands of soldiers, to a decade leading mental health initiatives in management consulting, Dr. Dan Pelton has seen how burnout takes root-and knows how to dismantle it. Rethinking Employee Resilience isn't just another leadership manual filled with hollow platitudes. This book rejects the status quo - an unconventional guide for leaders and employees to transform organizational culture, grounded in empirical research, industry insights, and real-world experience.

Pages: 237, Paperback, American Psychological Association (APA)