Worker's Resilience: The Exigency for Empathic Leadership

Abstract

Research on workers resilience is yet in its formative years. As a growing and developing framework, it offers a strong position on the need for workers optimism, composure and positive outlook on events even during tough or challenging times. This is as theories identify the quality of relationship between leaders and their workers as key to the success and wellbeing of the organization. This paper addressed the role of empathic leadership in the achievement of workers resilience. The paper is designed as a review with content bothering on the conceptualization and link between the empathic leadership and workers resilience. The review espouses the role of empathic leadership in the enhancement of resilience qualities such as optimism, equanimity and humour; it was concluded that empathic leadership drives and has a positive impact on the workers ability to cope with tough times and to maintain composure, optimism and equanimity during such times

Keywords: Empathic leadership, workers resilience, optimism, equanimity, emotions

DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/11-17-11

Publication date:June 30^th 2019