Description
Book SynopsisKindness in Management and Organizational Studies is the first book in a ground-breaking series exploring Kindness at Work. This edited collection offers multiple perspectives in the understanding, interpretation, enactment, and resistance to the concept of kindness in a business context. Through the diverse offerings of each author we gain and reflect on new knowledge, formulate new questions, and find direction for our next steps.
The collection of texts range in topics that include Indigenous storytelling about sanctified kindness to an examination of key management theories using ANTi-History to intergenerational stories on kindness and bouncing back. Compassion and kindness, care ethics, and the framing of kindness are also a part of the text. Unbiased compassion and work on the continuing and chronic occupational hazards of sexual harassment and discrimination is presented as well as benevolent sexism and performative kindness. Kindness and communication, Kindness and leadership and a case study of Kindness in the public service are also offerings in this first book on Kindness at Work.
Kindness in Management and Organizational Studies is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students in business, leadership, and human resources. It offers illuminating new perspectives and insights to scholars that enables the analyses of leadership and management styles, organizational psychology, and HR practice and theory.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Patterns and Possibilities: Exploring the Meaning of Kindness; Kristin S. Williams and Heidi Weigand
Chapter 2. Choosing Kindness: Finding Kindness in Management and Organizational Studies; Kristene E. Coller
Chapter 3. Strength through Kindness: Celebrating the Success of Women Leaders and Feminine Leadership Styles; Danielle Mercer-Prowse
Chapter 4. Communicating Kindness at Work; Amy Thurlow
Chapter 5. Kindness as an Imperative; Marcelle Allen
Chapter 6. Leading with Compassion: Co-designing a Workshop that Responds to a Report of Sexual Harassment or Discrimination with Unbiased Compassion; Shelley T. Price, Megan Fogarty, De-Ann Sheppard, Krista Smith, Heidi Weigand, Grace Campbell, Sarah Cartwright, Kylie Ito, Rachel MacDonald, and Sabrina Guzman Skotnitsky
Chapter 7. Care Ethics and Kindness in Management and Organizational Studies; Nina Winham
Chapter 8. Intergenerational Stories of Kindness: A Catalyst for Bouncing Back; Heidi Weigand, Heather Mackinnon, Erica Weigand, and Jessica Hepworth
Chapter 9. Dear Masie: A Story-net of Kindness; Tammy Williams and Heidi Weigand
Chapter 10. Be a ‘good girl’: The Durability and Enigmatic Nature of Benevolent Sexism as a Form of Performative Kindness; Kristin S. Williams
Chapter 11. Conceptualizing and Constructing Kindness; Michelle Thomason
