The article reviews the discourses in relation to the concept of resilience and its link with the productivity of subjects in organizations. It is based on two conceptual orders. On one hand, from the view of Kotliarenco, Cáceres and Fontecilla, resilient people arise from extremely insane environments, either physically or mentally. Therefore Flores proposes that it is from the initial phase of the recruitment and selection of personnel, to be able to identify the resilience capacity of human

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... esources, since in the work environment they must face a variety of adverse situations. The second conceptual order refers to the personnel employed, in relation to which preventive or corrective measures should be implemented focused on developing resilient capacity, taking into consideration that all people who interact in working environments face situations that put their health at risk according to Gil-Monte, Unda-Rojas, Marrau and Sandoval; which are reflected in indicators such as accidents at work, disabilities, absenteeism and low productivity according to the International Labor Organization (ILO). Journal of Human Resource and Sustainability Studies their collaborators, since they gain a competitive advantage over their competitors. Thus resilience has been studied under different approaches or disciplines such as sociology, administration, social psychology, neurosciences, anthropology and genetics; including some international organizations interested in deepening the issue of resilience such as the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the World Bank, among others [1] . This is the case of Rutter [2] cited by Flores [1], who studies resilience in the 80's, from the point of view of the processes and mechanisms that cause it; in this respect, he says that resilience must be understood as the interaction that occurs naturally and actively or dynamically, between a person and his daily environment.