Spirituality and Compassion in the organisations: a contribution for the achievement of organizational results

Abstract

Since it is no longer relevant to assume that any chosen assignment cannot be considered as a hazardous search for survival, human beings mostly spend their lifetime at work with the objective to reach human achievement. In that perspective, some organisations may still generate difficult environments with low level conditions of work and the act of compassion represents a virtue capable of minimizing a potential pain that hardly stay unconsidered within the work sphere. This study raises a contextual understanding on why the organisations need to perceive and understand the pain of their employees and, consequently, trigger mechanisms to overcome them. The issue involves key theories about spirituality, compassion and the organisations. It also refers to the forces that have a leading role in the deployment and sustaining of compassion in the organisations, and finally tries to establish the conceptual link between the consistent bonds of compassion and, both active and creative spirituality. Finally, a Brazilian case that lead to reflect on human values and its contemplation in the organisations and its application through confessional activities is introduced. In such perspective, spirituality and compassion may inspire a growing process of humanization of the organisations and for the community, to a large part about the human beings, their contribution for the achievement of organizational results and to its perpetuation in the organisations.