The growing complexity and unpredictability of contemporary organizational contexts has made the concept of organizational resilience a central theme in managerial reflection. This thesis aims to explore how resilience can be built and sustained through the integration of advanced HRM practices (in particular Strategic Human Resource Management), the adoption of new leadership styles, the reinforcement of organizational culture, and the implementation of agile and adaptive organizational structures. Through a theoretical and critical review of the literature, the study highlights how strategic human resource management contributes to the development of both individual and collective resilience capabilities, while distributed leadership proves particularly effective in unstable contexts. At the same time, organizational culture—understood as the set of shared values and practices—emerges as a key lever to sustain trust, collaboration, and learning, whereas flexible organizational structures enhance responsiveness and adaptability to change. The thesis therefore seeks to provide an integrated and multidimensional perspective on organizational resilience, emphasizing the managerial, cultural, and structural levers on which organizations can act to cope with crises, transformations, and highly uncertain scenarios.
La crescente complessità e imprevedibilità dei contesti organizzativi contemporanei ha reso il concetto di resilienza organizzativa un tema centrale nella riflessione manageriale. Questa tesi si propone di esplorare come la resilienza possa essere costruita e sostenuta attraverso l’integrazione di pratiche avanzate di HRM (in particolare del Strategic Human Resource Management), l’adozione di nuovi stili di leadership, la valorizzazione della cultura organizzativa e l’implementazione di assetti organizzativi agili e adattivi. Attraverso un’analisi teorica e critica della letteratura, il lavoro evidenzia come la gestione strategica delle risorse umane contribuisca allo sviluppo delle competenze individuali e collettive di resilienza, mentre la leadership distribuita si rivela particolarmente efficace nei contesti instabili. Parallelamente, la cultura organizzativa, intesa come insieme di valori e pratiche condivise, rappresenta una leva fondamentale per sostenere la fiducia, la collaborazione e l’apprendimento, mentre le strutture organizzative flessibili rafforzano la capacità di risposta e adattamento ai cambiamenti. La tesi si propone quindi di offrire una visione integrata e multidimensionale della resilienza organizzativa, evidenziando le principali leve manageriali, culturali e strutturali su cui è possibile intervenire per fronteggiare crisi, trasformazioni e scenari ad alta incertezza.
Building Resilient Organizations: HRM, Leadership, and Organizational Structure
LOTTO, CHIARA
2024/2025
Abstract
The growing complexity and unpredictability of contemporary organizational contexts has made the concept of organizational resilience a central theme in managerial reflection. This thesis aims to explore how resilience can be built and sustained through the integration of advanced HRM practices (in particular Strategic Human Resource Management), the adoption of new leadership styles, the reinforcement of organizational culture, and the implementation of agile and adaptive organizational structures. Through a theoretical and critical review of the literature, the study highlights how strategic human resource management contributes to the development of both individual and collective resilience capabilities, while distributed leadership proves particularly effective in unstable contexts. At the same time, organizational culture—understood as the set of shared values and practices—emerges as a key lever to sustain trust, collaboration, and learning, whereas flexible organizational structures enhance responsiveness and adaptability to change. The thesis therefore seeks to provide an integrated and multidimensional perspective on organizational resilience, emphasizing the managerial, cultural, and structural levers on which organizations can act to cope with crises, transformations, and highly uncertain scenarios.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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