Human Relations Free Access Article of the Month

Posted by on Feb 8, 2013 in Compassion at Work Blog | 0 comments A special offer from the journal Human Relations makes free public access available for the CompassionLab’s paper: Understanding Compassion Capability. Free access is available to the public through Human Relations until March 10, 2013. Human Relations is an international peer reviewed journal, which publishes the highest quality original research to advance our understanding of social...
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Feeding the wolf of compassion

Posted by on Jan 2, 2013 in Compassion at Work Blog | 0 comments     Our late colleague Peter Frost used this proverb as a reminder that we all suffer and that we all have the capacity to meet suffering with compassion. We offer it in memory of Peter, and as an invitation to feed the wolf of compassion in your life. A Cherokee proverb (from www.snowowl.com): He said to them, “A fight is going on inside me … it is a terrible fight...
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Defining Compassion

Posted by on Jan 2, 2013 in Featured, Portfolio | 0 comments Compassion is the heart’s response to suffering. Compassion — from the roots passio (suffering) and com (with) — means to suffer with another. Compassion is an innate part of human response to suffering, which is comprised of a three-part experience of noticing another’s pain, feeling with another, and responding in some way. In this article we explore the meaning of compassion for work...
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Compassion Organizing

Posted by on Jan 1, 2013 in Featured, Portfolio | 0 comments Pain and suffering, though often unspoken, are ubiquitous in work organizations. Sometimes the work of the organization itself becomes painful, while at other times pain comes from tragic and unexpected events in employees’ lives. Pain and loss, though they are inevitable parts of people’s experience, are not within the usual purview of studies of organization. This paper takes up the topic...
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Contours and Consequences

Posted by on Dec 2, 2012 in Featured, Portfolio | 0 comments In this paper, we use a combination of narrative and survey methods to explore the contours and consequences of compassion at work. Stories of compassion at work provide testimony to its power in cultivating positive identification with the workplace and with one’s co-workers. Survey findings suggest that the experience of compassion at work is positively related to people’s...
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