A Preliminary Quantitative Study of Resilience and Its Relation with Employees’ Age and Work Experience in the Pharma Industry of Ahmedabad City

Abstract

Background- Resilience is a skill that helps an individual to successfully face various challenges. The continuous improvement of this ability is essential for a variety of reasons which include being able to create or use coping mechanisms against certain overwhelming experiences, trying to maintain a balance between things while going through a stressful situation in life, and also to be capable to prevent adverse effects of those problems on the general wellbeing of an individual. These days, when we observe various sudden and rapid changes in different industries it is important to be resilient enough to bounce back and adapt to the changes as quickly as possible.  The greatest stress test of resilience takes place in the workplace. There are various factors that affect the level of resilience of an individual like age and work experience. As we grow older the factors like age and work experience have an impact on our perception of various situations. There have been fewer studies that have focused on the concepts of resilience in relation to age and work experience.  Having a resilient workforce is necessary in this ever-changing world to keep up with the competition. Aim/objective- The proposed dissertation aims at studying resilience and its relation with age and work experience in the pharma industry of Ahmedabad City in Gujarat state. Methodology- As this is the primary study, the data is collected through the quantitative research method of purposive sampling using a 5-Likert scale questionnaire consisting of 16 questions in total, from 220 employees working in the pharmaceutical sector in Ahmedabad and out of those 214 responses were considered and analyzed to obtain results. Results- The results from the study determined that there is no significant relationship between age and work experience with levels of resilience of the employees working in the Pharma industry in the metropolitan city of Ahmedabad in India. This determines that there are various other factors that also are related to age and work experience which contribute to determining the relation of age and work experience with levels of resilience of employees.