Organizational resilience assessment in Lithuania's public sector

• Published in: Eastern journal of European studies Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 31 - 56
• Main Authors: Butkus, Mindaugas, Rakauskienė, Ona Gražina, Volodzkienė, Lina, Stasiukynas, Andrius, Bartuseviciene, Ilona, Dargenyte-Kacileviciene, Laura
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editura Universităţii »Alexandru Ioan Cuza« din Iaşi 2023; The Publishing House of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi; Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi
• Subjects: adaptation; Economic development; enhanced learning; Labor relations; Management and complex organizations; Nationalism Studies; organizational resilience; planning; Public Administration; public sector resilience; public sector resilience assessment; Social Sciences; Sociology; public sector resilience assessment; planning; adaptation; public sector resilience; enhanced learning; organizational resilience
• ISSN: 2068-651X; 2068-6633
• DOI: 10.47743/ejes-2023-0102

This study aims to examine the perspective of public sector resilience development, which is explored as a three-stage construct: Planning, Adaptation, and Enhanced Learning. We analyzed whether these three stages are equally important in developing organizational resilience in the public sector. To assess the developmental importance of the three stages of organizational resilience, this study adopted a quantitative methodology. First, expert research was conducted to analyze whether all three stages were equally important in developing organizational resilience. Second, the level of resilience of public sector organizations in Lithuania was assessed by analyzing the survey results of 401 organizations. The results revealed that according to experts, the Adaptation stage is the most important in developing resilience, while Enhanced Learning is the least important. Meanwhile, resilience assessment in the Lithuanian public sector showed that Planning and Adaptation were equally developed, while Enhanced Learning demonstrated a significantly higher score.