Integrating principles of care, compassion and justice in organizations: exploring dynamic nature of organizational justice
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2014
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Journal of Human Values
Abstract
This article aims to respond to the long-lived perceived incompatibility between care and compassion and justice in organizational literature. It is argued that principles of care and compassion and principles of justice are compatible with each other and can be integrated in organizations in such a way that both will supplement each other. Previous researches tend to view concepts of care and compassion and justice either as competing or inheriting some fundamental trade-offs. This article argues that the highlighted incompatibility between care and compassion and justice is mainly due to the limited understanding about the nature of organizational justice. Care and compassion carry elements of subjectivity and are dynamic in nature, whereas literature on organizational justice has described justice as an objective, static and linear construct due to which an incompatibility between these two very important phenomena is prevailing. This incompatibility can be removed by changing the way of looking at organizational justice and by exploring its dynamic nature.
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Care and compassion, organizational justice, dynamic nature of organizational justice, compassionate just organization
Citation
8. Shahzad, K., Murad, H. S., Kitchlew, N., & Zia, S. A. (2014). Integrating Principles of Care, Compassion and Justice in Organizations: Exploring Dynamic Nature of Organizational Justice. Journal of Human Values, 20(2), 167-181.