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The contours and consequences of compassion at work
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-02)
This paper describes two studies that explore core questions about compassion at work. Findings from a pilot survey indicate that compassion occurs with relative frequency among a wide variety of individuals, suggesting a ...
The Amplifying and Buffering Effects of Virtuousness in Downsized Organizations
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer, 2006-03)
Virtuousness refers to the pursuit of the highest aspirations in the human condition. It is characterized by human impact, moral goodness, and unconditional societal betterment. Several writers have recently argued that ...
Crafting scholarly life: Strategies for creating meaning in academic careers
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2011-08)
Job crafting, which occurs when individuals proactively make changes to their jobs, can be a useful tool for academics seeking more meaningful careers. We suggest changes to the cognitive, task, and relational aspects of ...
Five Keys to Flourishing in Trying Times
(Leader to Leader Institute, 2010-10)
In this article I rely on two decades of empirical research on organizations that have faced difficult economic situations but which have achieved levels of success that are unexpected and exceptional. Carefully examining ...
The Sense of Society
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1994-12)
Human society is unique in the animal kingdom in the degree to which it depends upon its members reflective awareness of self and society. Whereas much has been learned about the sense of self, little is known about the ...
Cohesion, equivalence, and similarity of behavior: a theoretical and empirical assessment
(Elsevier, 1993-09)
Network analysts have debated the extent to which cohesion versus structural equivalence serves as a source of similar behavior among actors. More recently, role equivalence has emerged as an alternative to structural ...
Networks of Interorganizational Relations
(SAGE PERIODICALS PRESS, 1993)
Network analysis has been used extensively in the study of interorganizational relations. This article reviews the literature over the past fifteen years and organizes it into three theoretical traditions: the resource ...
Preferred Styles of Conflict Resolution
(Sage Publications, 1997)
This study examined cultural differences in preferences for conflict resolution styles using the dual-concern model. It was found that students in a collectivistic culture (Mexico) preferred conflict resolution styles that ...
The spread and persistence of infectious diseases in structured populations
(Elsevier, 1988)
A basic assumption of many epidemic models is that populations are composed of a homogeneous group of randomly mixing individuals. This is not a realistic assumption. Most actual populations are divided into a number of ...