Workforce Resilience Under Structural Disruption: Psychological Capital, Digital Transformation, and Organizational Adaptation

The nature of work has fundamentally changed, not by a single event, but by overlapping structural forces: the rapid integration of AI and automation, platform-mediated employment, chronic job insecurity, and sustained digital acceleration. These are not temporary pressures that resolve once employees adjust their routines. They represent a redefinition of the psychological contract between workers and organizations, demanding new models of adaptive capacity that play out across careers, not just workdays.This Research Topic focuses on the sustained psychological and organizational processes that enable employees, teams, and institutions to adapt, remain effective, and avoid long-term depletion under conditions of structural change. Drawing on occupational health psychology, positive psychology, and organizational behavior, it invites contributions that examine how constructs such as psychological capital (hope, efficacy, resilience, optimism), professional identity, and organizational climate interact with the structural pressures of contemporary work—including technological displacement, skills obsolescence, algorithmic management, and the erosion of stable career trajectories.Unlike adjacent work focused on episodic recovery and daily psychological detachment, this Topic centers on longer-arc adaptation: how resilience is built, depleted, and restored at the individual, team, and organizational level in response to structural—rather than situational—disruption. It attends equally to the organizational and policy conditions that make resilience possible or systematically out of reach, including how access to psychological resources is distributed unequally across roles, sectors, and demographic groups.Relevant themes include, but are not limited to:Psychological capital (PsyCap) and adaptive performance under chronic uncertaintyAI integration, automation, and the psychological dimensions of workforce transformationJob insecurity, precarious employment, and long-term resilience trajectoriesQuiet quitting, disengagement, and withdrawal as systemic resilience failuresOrganizational design for psychological safety, trust, and sustainable performanceLeadership in distributed and digitally mediated organizations: fostering adaptive capacity across timeCareer adaptability, reskilling demands, and professional identity under technological disruptionTechnostress as a chronic organizational stressor—and structural, rather than individual, responsesBurnout prevention through organizational, managerial, and policy-level leversEquity and access: how resilience resources are distributed across gender, role, and employment conditionsCross-cultural perspectives on workforce resilience in evolving labor and economic contextsMethodological advances in measuring resilience as a dynamic, longitudinal construct Topic editors: Ümit Dilekçi, Damiano Girardi, İbrahim Limon Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/80911/workforce-resilience-under-structural-disruption-psychological-capital-digital-transformation-and-organizational-adaptation