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Power of Faith: The Influence of Craftsman Spirit on Organizational Resilience
Duan Shengsen1, Chi Dongmei2, Zhang Yuming3
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Foreign Economics & Management Vol. 43, Issue 03, pp. 57 - 71 (2021)  DOI:10.16538/j.cnki.fem.10201102.102
First published at:Mar 20, 2021
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In recent years, a series of uncertain events and sudden changes, such as trade disputes and epidemic diseases, have posed a major threat to the function and survival of organizations. How to cultivate and improve organizational resilience has become a research hotspot in the field of organizational management. Relevant researches on the mechanism of organizational resilience generation and intervention have not yet formed an authoritative explanation and generalization principle, though the important influence of employees’ individual mental traits on organizational resilience has caught more and more research attention.

Deploying the large-scale sample survey data from small and medium-sized enterprises in science and technology, this study, inheriting research thought from individual spiritual traits to organizational resilience, explores the influence of craftsman spirit on organizational resilience within the theory framework of work values. Craftsman spirit concerned, which has a profound brand of special times, is the professional faith of employees. The significance and value of craftsman spirit in the new period have been widely discussed by all walks of life in China. More and more studies have defined the craftsman spirit as the working attitude and value orientation of employees, and believe that the craftsman spirit of employees is an important reason for enterprises to stand firm despite the crisis and achieve sustainable development. However, few studies have further explored its influence on organizational resilience. In exploring the effect model of the relationship between craftsmanship spirit and organizational resilience, this study, drawing on the relevant literature on strategic human resource management, underlines the mediating role of strategic consensus. It comes to the conclusion that craftsman spirit imposes a positive effect on organizational resilience. Further mechanism analysis illustrates that strategic consensus can significantly improve organizational resilience, meanwhile employees with craftsmanship spirit are more likely to reach strategic consensus. In view of the above, craftsmanship spirit can exert a positive impact on organizational resilience by promoting strategic consensus.

The conclusion of this study reveals the great power of craftsman spirit as an ideal and belief, and explores the strategic path of craftsman spirit to promote organizational resilience, which attempts to make contributions in the following aspects. Firstly, based on the theory of work values, this study reexamines the connotation and characteristics of craftsman spirit in the new era and verifies its positive role in promoting organizational resilience, which further enriches the relevant literature on craftsman spirit and its effects. Secondly, existing researches mostly focus on the influence of individual spiritual traits and emphasize the consequent psychological resources on organizational resilience. This study explores the influence and mechanism of craftsman spirit, a higher order individual value, which replenishes the research on the antecedents of organizational resilience. Thirdly, by referring to the relevant literature of strategic human resource management, the effect model of the relationship between craftsmanship spirit and organizational resilience is constructed through the key of strategic consensus, which provides a new theoretical perspective for the research on the relationship between individual values and organizational behavior. At the practical level, this study also provides a new way of thinking for the important issue of how to promote the joint development of individual employees and organizations, and manifests a guiding significance for the collaborative cultivation of craftsmanship spirit and organizational resilience in Chinese enterprises in the new era.

Keywords
craftsman spirit; organizational resilience; strategic consensus; work values
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Duan Shengsen, Chi Dongmei, Zhang Yuming. Power of Faith: The Influence of Craftsman Spirit on Organizational Resilience[J]. Foreign Economics & Management, 2021, 43(3): 57-71. 
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