Developing a resilience-promoting, trauma-informed organizational culture and climate

Cynthia A. Lietz and Breanna M. Carpenter Lietz

Chapter 14 in How to Build Resilience in College Students, 2026, pp 141-147 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Organizational culture involves the formal and stated rules that govern that system. This can include mission and vision statements along with documents that describe the policies and procedures of an organization. Organizational climate, on the other hand, references how employees experience, and thereby feel about the work environment. Both inform the ways employees work to meet their job duties. As institutions of higher education seek to meet students’ needs by becoming more trauma-informed and strengths-based, we discuss how paying attention to organizational culture and climate can help spread a growth mindset across a college or university. We highlight leadership and the role that parallel process plays in activating resilience across the organization. The importance of formally asserting an organization's commitment to these efforts in an educational ecosystem will also be addressed.

Keywords: Resilience; College students; Trauma-informed; Strengths-based; Organizational culture; Organizational climate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035365081
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781035365098.00019 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:24725_14

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jack Sweeney ().