Resilience Analysis Grid–Rasch Rating Scale Model for Measuring Organizational Resilience Potential

Abstract

This paper presents a novel method for measuring organizational resilience by integrating the Rasch model into the Resilience Analysis Grid (RAG), providing a robust and objective tool for cross-sectional resilience studies. By treating the four cornerstones of resilience as abilities, Rasch’s model allows for an assessment that positions both the difficulty of the items and the organizations’ ability along a common scale. The requirement is the availability of a number of different organizations to be assessed. We employ a dataset generated through an artificial simulation and analyzed in a controlled environment, demonstrating the potential of Rasch-based resilience assessments to provide accurate, comparable, and scalable results in different organizational contexts. The traditional RAG is designed without a normative reference group, which makes it challenging to evaluate its results. The proposed model overcomes this limitation by offering a measurement scale on which different organizations can be placed without the need to use a normative group, facilitating the more consistent and timely monitoring of systems. This novel approach to quantifying resilience potentials highlights the transformative role of digital technologies in improving workplace safety and resilience. It advances resilience engineering and occupational health and safety practices in complex environments like manufacturing and industrial sectors.

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