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Published in: Asia Pacific Journal of Management 3/2016

01-09-2016

Top executive leaders’ compassionate actions: An integrative framework of compassion incorporating a confucian perspective

Authors: Hongguo Wei, Yunxia Zhu, Shaobing Li

Published in: Asia Pacific Journal of Management | Issue 3/2016

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Abstract

This paper sets out to develop a theoretical framework for understanding compassion. It contributes to the research of compassion from an indigenous theory perspective to complement the Western theory of this important topic. We do this by adopting self-cultivation, a Confucian indigenous theoretical perspective based on xin (mind-heart) to guide our grounded study and thus develop an integrative framework. With an analysis based on extensive interviews with top executive leaders in Chinese enterprises, we thus show that (1) integrating compassion and self-cultivation enriches our understanding of the moral growth of compassion; (2) compassion affects performance outcomes at the individual, relational, and organizational levels; and (3) self-cultivation and compassion have an ultimate interaction effect on organizational performance outcomes.
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Metadata
Title
Top executive leaders’ compassionate actions: An integrative framework of compassion incorporating a confucian perspective
Authors
Hongguo Wei
Yunxia Zhu
Shaobing Li
Publication date
01-09-2016
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Asia Pacific Journal of Management / Issue 3/2016
Print ISSN: 0217-4561
Electronic ISSN: 1572-9958
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-016-9463-2

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