Description
Caring Is a Competitive Advantage
Suffering within the office can rob our colleagues and coworkers of humanity, dignity, and motivation and is an unrecognized and expensive drain on organizational potential. Marshaling evidence from twenty years of field research, scholars and consultants Monica Worline and Jane Dutton show that alleviating such suffering confers measurable competitive advantages in areas like innovation, collaboration, service quality, and skill attraction and retention. They outline four steps for meeting suffering with compassion and show how one can build a capacity for compassion into the structures and practices of a company—because in the long run, as they write, “Compassion is an irreplaceable dimension of excellence for any organization that wishes to take advantage of its human capabilities.”