Selfless and strategic, interpersonal and institutional: a continuum of paradoxical organizational compassion dimensions

Araújo, ML; Simpson, AV; Marujo, H; Lopes, MP

Selfless and strategic, interpersonal and institutional: a continuum of paradoxical organizational compassion dimensions

Araújo, ML Simpson, AV

Marujo, H Lopes, MP

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Citation:: Journal of Political Power, 2019, 12 (1), pp. 16 - 39
Issue Date:: 2019-01-02

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dc.contributor.author	Araújo, ML	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Simpson, AV https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7768-328X	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Marujo, H	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Lopes, MP	en_US
dc.date.issued	2019-01-02	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Political Power, 2019, 12 (1), pp. 16 - 39	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	2158-379X	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/138967
dc.description.abstract	© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. We asked 32 professionals what organizational compassion is to them. Analysis of the responses revealed four conflicting, if not paradoxical, dimensions. With insight from Habermas’ theory of ‘communicative action’, we paired these dimensions as two lifeworld/system couples: (1) selfless compassion (lifeworld) and strategic compassion (system), as well as (2) interpersonal compassion (lifeworld) and institutional compassion (system). While the colonisation of the lifeworld by system dimensions is a legitimate Habermasian concern, our analysis highlights the potential for system to magnify the power of compassion beyond lifeworld contexts, leveraging and transcending lifeworld/system tensions, aided by dialogue as ‘communicative action’.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Political Power	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/2158379X.2019.1573611	en_US
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dc.title	Selfless and strategic, interpersonal and institutional: a continuum of paradoxical organizational compassion dimensions	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
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Abstract:

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. We asked 32 professionals what organizational compassion is to them. Analysis of the responses revealed four conflicting, if not paradoxical, dimensions. With insight from Habermas’ theory of ‘communicative action’, we paired these dimensions as two lifeworld/system couples: (1) selfless compassion (lifeworld) and strategic compassion (system), as well as (2) interpersonal compassion (lifeworld) and institutional compassion (system). While the colonisation of the lifeworld by system dimensions is a legitimate Habermasian concern, our analysis highlights the potential for system to magnify the power of compassion beyond lifeworld contexts, leveraging and transcending lifeworld/system tensions, aided by dialogue as ‘communicative action’.

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