Author Archives: Monica Worline, Jane Dutton, and members of Compassion Lab

As organizational researchers, we have a unique interest in understanding how compassion can be unleashed or stifled in human communities. An organizational lens attunes us to the important role played by routines and practices in grooving the ways we interact with one another. By routines we mean the recurring, repeated patterns of action that typify a particular organization or unit (Feldman & Pentland, 2003). Many organizational researchers think routines are key to... Continue reading at Compassion at Work Blog →

In this video discussing the future of care and compassion in business, Dr. Jane Dutton discusses this as a particularly generative time for thinking about compassion in business, with new possibilities and organizations emerging to generate scientific and social advances in the study and practice of compassion.New scientific interest, including a Center for Compassion and Altruism Research at Stanford University, is fueled by rapid advances in the study of neuroscience and related fields that... Continue reading at Compassion at Work Blog →

In this short video introduction, Professor Jane Dutton welcomes you to a special issue of the Academy of Management Reviewfocused on understanding and creating compassionate organizations. The special issue features nine highly diverse papers selected from over ninety-six submissions in a rigorous peer review process. The volume extends organizational theory with a focus on compassion that extends from individual-level topics to group-level dynamics and organization-level impacts.Jane... Continue reading at Compassion at Work Blog →

While we often think about compassion as an individual quality, the organizations where we spend our timesuch as workplaces, schools, places of worship, and community centerscan actually impact whether and how we respond to someone in distress.CompassionLab collaborated with the Greater Good Science Center to create this quiz on Compassion in Organizations.The quiz measures the level of compassion in an organization. It is based on more than 10 years of research on compassion a... Continue reading at Compassion at Work Blog →

Wisdom 2.0 is the name given to a gathering this weekend of people interested in the intersection of new technologies and old wisdom traditions. Many speakers highlighted aspects of mindfulness and emphasized the importance of compassion as one of the taproots of humanity. One highlight of the conference for those of us interested in the expression of compassion at work was an onstage interview with Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn, who spoke extensively about his perspective on compassion and leade... Continue reading at Compassion at Work Blog →