Analysis of Relationship Between resilience with Dimensions of Work Engagement

Resilience is defined as an individual’s ability to cope with current risks and dangers in the environment, in other words, this is a kind of flexibility in the face of environmental problems. In addition, nowadays employees are more willing to participate in organizational decisions and activities. Job involvement has positive results in organizations, and causes the employees have more participation and enjoy for being a member in organization. Employees with high job involvement, would take lot of energy, dedicate himself/ herself and absorb in his/ her work. This study scrutinize the relationship between resilience and dimensions of job involvement (Taking energy, dedicating and absorbing). For this purpose, 200 employees in three public universities of Iran (Shahid Beheshti University, Allameh Tabatabaei and Yazd University) are selected by convenience sampling. Then they are evaluated by the Shawfly and Becker questionnaire and the Connor- Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISK). To analyze data Structural Equation Modeling is used and finally, the results show that there is a significance relationship between resilience and dimensions of job involvement.