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2025 AOM Annual Meeting

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10171: Compassion in Organizations: Connecting Theory to Practice via Lessons from Health Care and Research

Friday, July 25, 2025
09:00 - 10:30 CEST (GMT+2)
Location: Bella Center: Hall C- C3-m5
Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Practice,International,Research
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Research increasingly demonstrates that compassion in workspaces is not just a luxury – it is critical to employee well-being. Compassion is defined as the noticing, interpreting, feeling, and acting to alleviate suffering. Benefits of compassion in organizations include reducing staff burnout and turnover, improving patient outcomes in healthcare settings, elevating organizational capacity for learning, adaptation and change, supporting innovation and creativity at work, and reducing costs. Participants in this professional development workshop will be introduced to the compassion research landscape through the lens of healthcare and health research organizations, collectively reflect on a case study of Copenhagen-based researchers launching the Excellence and Kindness in Research Training (ELIS) Initiative to address workplace suffering in academic research settings, and employ critical reflective practices through a series of roundtable dialogues to connect theory to practice. Discussions will be action- and research-oriented, guided by the Dutton et al. (2006) social architecture framework for awakening organization-level compassion competence through five organizational component categories: network structures, organizational culture, work roles, routines, and leadership. We aim for participants to draw connections between the theory outlined in the workshop and their own working environments, supporting insights into their own workplace practices and inspiring future research ideas that are relevant for practitioners and researchers across multiple management divisions.