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  1. Introduction to the Henry Stewart Talks organizational behavior series

  • Prof. Ramon J. Aldag
• 51 min
  2. The role of personality at work

  • Prof. Murray R. Barrick
• 20 min
  3. Job attitude - work behavior relationships

  • Prof. Thomas Lee
• 66 min
  4. Attribution theory in the organizational sciences

  • Prof. Mark J. Martinko
• 46 min
  5. Decision making 1

  • Prof. Ramon J. Aldag
• 41 min
  6. Decision making 2

  • Prof. Ramon J. Aldag
• 48 min
  7. Impression management: a dramaturgical perspective

  • Prof. William L. Gardner
• 24 min
  8. Creativity

  • Prof. Christina E. Shalley
• 26 min
  9. Work motivation: definition, purpose, and relevance

  • Prof. Alex Stajkovic
• 29 min
  10. Moods and emotions at work

  • Prof. Cynthia D. Fisher
• 32 min
  11. Building trust through leader communication

  • Prof. Pam Shockley-Zalabak
• 61 min
  12. Job design

  • Prof. Yitzhak Fried
• 32 min
  13. Fairness in organizations

  • Prof. Maureen Ambrose
• 48 min
  14. Positive organizational behavior

  • Dr. Suzanne J. Peterson
• 41 min
  15. Diversity management

  • Prof. Carol T. Kulik
• 24 min
  16. Compassion at work

  • Dr. Jacoba Lilius
• 48 min
  17. Stress at work

  • Prof. James Campbell Quick
  • Prof. Debra L. Nelson
• 41 min
  18. Business ethics

  • Prof. Robert Folger
• 17 min
  19. Empowering leadership

  • Dr. Gary Yukl
• 41 min
  20. Power and politics in organizations

  • Dr. Darren Treadway
• 37 min
  21. Organizational politics

  • Dr. Christopher C. Rosen
• 20 min
  22. Managing conflict constructively

  • Prof. Dean Tjosvold
• 54 min
  23. Recent developments in organizational culture and climate research

  • Prof. Neal Ashkanasy
• 44 min
  24. Leading organizational change 1

  • Prof. Randall B. Dunham
• 45 min
  25. Leading organizational change 2

  • Prof. Randall B. Dunham

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1. Introduction
2. The CompassionLab
3. Motivations for the research
4. Pain is ubiquitous and costly
5. Building understanding of compassion at work
6. Drawing on findings based on two studies
7. Lessons learned from our research
8. What triggers compassion at work? Serious illness
9. Death of a loved one
10. What triggers compassion at work? Marital strife
11. Financial difficulties
12. Loss of property (fire/theft)
13. Work-based stressors
14. Building understanding of compassion at work
15. The nature of compassionate responding
16. Regularity of compassion
17. The power of collective action
18. The significance of seemingly ‘small’ acts
19. Why compassion at work matters
20. Why compassion at work matters for employees
21. Why compassion matters for organizations
22. Support from quantitative survey data
23. Damage done by a lack of compassion
24. Enabling compassion
25. Enabling compassion mechanisms
26. What enables compassion at work?
27. Insights provided by our research
28. Questions raised by our research
29. Looking ahead
30. Concluding remarks

Topics Covered

• Introduction to the CompassionLab
• Motivations for the research
• The personal and organizational cost of pain
• Building understanding of compassion at work
• What triggers compassion at work?
• The nature of compassionate responding
• Why compassion at work matters
• Enabling compassion at work
• Conclusions: Key insights provided and questions raised by our research

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Series:

• Organizational Behavior

Categories:

• Management, Leadership & Organisation

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on July 8, 2013