Examining the dimensions of resourcefulness and redundancy in achieving resilience in terms of robustness and rapidity in selected universities in the Philippines

• Main Authors: Chan, Lara Patricia Legaspi, Cortez, Ma. Sofia Cerbito, Radomes, Aj-Teanson, Serrano, Carl Jorem Ortega
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: Organizational resilience; Universities and colleges—Philippines—Metro Manila—Administration; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020—-Influence; Higher Education; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdb_dsi/41; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etdb_dsi/article/1081/viewcontent/Examining_the_dimensions_of_resourcefulness_and_redundancy2.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted education. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) were forced to close down and rapidly adopt a fully-online based learning to continue delivery of education. Such disruptions are likely to increase exponentially with the increasing threat of climate change. This study aims to investigate how selected universities in Metro Manila promoted academic continuity to achieve university resilience through technical, organizational, and social measures. The proponents adopted the framework of Donnelly et al. (2020), which classified resourcefulness and redundancy as the means to improve the desired ends of resilience, robustness and rapidity. A quantitative approach using multivariate regression analysis in SPSS was used to determine which indicators significantly influence university resilience and to assess the combined impact of means of resilience on the desired ends. In analyzing the 404 student responses, being resourceful and promoting redundancy were both found to have significant effects on resilience in terms of robustness and rapidity. However, when resourcefulness and redundancy were tested jointly, it was revealed that there were no observed substitutes when professors were absent. Students indicated in the open-ended questions that they have high appreciation for asynchronous classes, which reduced the need for substitutes. This study provides universities with indicators to improve response to unforeseen crises and recommendations to promote resilience.