Resilience Training: Is Your Boss Copping Out on Burnout?

Resilience training is on the rise as bosses, under organisational pressure to do more with fewer resources, try to address the increasing stress levels of their employees. New workplace health and safety rules put the onus on managers to act on stress – or risk facing prosecution for neglecting the psychological welfare of their workers. Sending staff on courses to learn how to stave off burnout seems to make good sense. However, experts from the University of New South Wales argue that resilience training is pushing responsibility onto individuals and overlooking the bigger organisational issue of why workers are strung out in the first place.