Organizational Compassion

<p>Organizational compassion provides a multitude of benefits at individual team and organizational levels. These encompass heightened positive affect trust engagement loyalty performance resilience and recovery. This important book provides an accessible yet scholarly overview of key academic findings and theories on organizational compassion. It equips readers with tools for reflection awakening and practical application of compassion within the workplace across dyadic team and organizational contexts. Historically compassion work has been largely unacknowledged in official organizational discourse. Yet wherever there are human beings there will be suffering; where there is human suffering one can often find human responses infused with kindness and compassion. This observation holds true across industries professions and communities. The book explores the complexities of organizational compassion analyzing the factors that enhance organizational compassion capabilities as well as those that make compassion falter and fail. The primary aim of this book is to foster the cultivation of organizational compassion by providing a provocative stimulating and engaging foray into the academic study of organizational compassion for readers ranging from undergraduate to postgraduate and executive students as well as reflective practitioners. In a world marked by suffering and challenges a research-based understanding and fostering of compassion at work offers a path towards a better future.</p>