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THRIVING ATWORKPLACE Nur Husna Mohd Hafiz INTRODUCTION Do you remember when you were young, and every small achievement was celebrated by your parents and caregivers? Those moments of recognition made you feel valued and motivated. However, as you grow older, you become too obsessed with seeing the final achievement, prompting you to neglect the small accomplishments made throughout the journey. You start to feel tired when you think you have not successfully achieved what you want, making your endeavors feel useless and widening the gap to success. This situation causes many employees to feel stuck in the same place without the ability to grow further, prompting them to strive hard to survive instead of thrive at their workplace (Alizi, 2022). You might wonder what thriving means. Thriving has been used interchangeably with terms like resilience, hardiness, and flourishing (Ledesma, 2014). It indicates the process of bouncing back and positively adapting in the face of adversity (Joyce et al., 2018). However, some scholars argue that thriving differs from resilience. O’Leary and Ickovics (1995) posit that resilience refers to the ability to recover to one's original strength quickly while thriving goes beyond that. Terms like stress-related growth and posttraumatic growth are more closely related to thriving than resilience. Resilience portrays the maintenance of functioning after facing adversity, while thriving entails stress-related growth and posttraumatic growth, representing the establishment of an elevated level of functioning (Brown et al., 2017).