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AoM - Showcase Symposium- Empowering Compassion: Exploring how and why compassion can be expanded and leveraged

  • 1.  AoM - Showcase Symposium- Empowering Compassion: Exploring how and why compassion can be expanded and leveraged

    Posted 08-02-2016 23:15

    Are you interested in compassion and its impact? We'd love to have you join us for a showcase symposium on compassion and empowerment. The symposium seeks to create an engaging platform to explore the generative capacity of compassion and unpack the processes, practices and mechanisms that can empower others to respond compassionately.

    The symposium will be held on Tuesday 8/9 11:30-1pm at the Anaheim Convention Center in room 304A.  Below you can find detailed information on our session and the papers to be presented.

    Session Type: Showcase Symposium
    Program Session: 1859 | Submission: 10461 | Sponsor(s): (OB, MOC, OMT)
    Scheduled: Tuesday, Aug 9 2016 11:30AM - 1:00PM at Anaheim Convention Center in 304A

     

    Empowering Compassion: Exploring how and why compassion can be expanded and leveraged
    Compassion and Empowerment


    Organizer: Reut Livne-Tarandach, U. of Oregon
    Chair: Jane E. Dutton, U. of Michigan
    Discussant: Sally Maitlis, U. of Oxford

    This symposium will explore how and why compassion can be expanded and leveraged in organizations. In contrast to prior research focus on conditions and practices enhancing focal actors' engagement with compassion, the papers we assembled explore the processes and mechanisms that help under-explored actors- as leaders, sufferers and external agents – such as job coaches, inspire others to respond compassionately, and create ripple effects of compassion in organizations. The papers in the symposium also acknowledge the generative potential embedded in engagement with compassion, and illuminate how compassion can be leveraged to deal with systemic organizational issues creating pain in organizations. The session features a combination of theoretical and empirical papers undertaking diverse theoretical perspectives, drawing on multiple data sources from diverse organizational settings. The paper presentations will be followed by a discussant presentation led by Sally Maitlis, who will outline opportunities for further development of the papers presented. We also expect that an open dialogue and discussion with the audience at the end of this session will provoke future research questions and collaborations. The session is designed to contribute to research on compassion, leadership, diversity, stigma and voice.

    Search Terms: Compassion | Process Organizing | Boundary spanning

    Compassion and leadership - tentative tutle

     Presenter: Monica C. Worline, Stanford U. Center for Compassion and Altruism Research
     Presenter: Jane E. Dutton, U. of Michigan

    Bridge Work: Examining the Compassion-Stigma Interplay through the Lens of Autism Job Coaches

     Presenter: Tiffany D. Johnson, Pennsylvania State U.

    Towards a Relational Model of Compassion

     Presenter: Reut Livne-Tarandach, U. of Oregon

    More Than a Feeling: How Compassion Drives Employee Voice and Organizational Change

     Presenter: Emily Heaphy, U. of Rhode Island
     Presenter: Jacoba Lilius, Queen's U.
     Presenter: Elana R. Feldman, U. of Massachusetts, Lowell


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    Reut Livne-Tarandach, PhD
    Assistant Professor of Management
    Lundquist College of Business
    University of Oregon
    Office 541 364 1438; Cell 781 267 2898

    "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in seeing with new eyes." -- Marcel Proust

    http://business.uoregon.edu/faculty/reut-livne-tarandach