Compassion at Work: Mentorum EMentoring The Science of Compassion, Telluride, Colorado Daniel E. Martin, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Management California State University East Bay College of Business and Economics Visiting Associate Professor Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education Stanford University
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Compassion at Work: Mentorum E-‐Mentoring
The Science of Compassion, Telluride, Colorado
Daniel E. Martin, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Management
California State University East Bay
College of Business and Economics
Visiting Associate Professor
Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education Stanford University
• Do you know anyone who has suffered at work? Negative emotions have significant financial, psychological, and social costs for organizations and employees.
• Stress is one of the largest areas of workers compensation claims. • Biting • We see compassion at work daily, whether through (1) emotional support, (2) providing
time and flexibility, or (3) giving material support, but it is not made salient. • Compassion can positively engender cooperation in organizations via:
• Trust • Positive emotions • Increasing the quality of interpersonal connections • Facilitating an understanding of shared values • Development of interpersonal skills (e.g. active listening. emotional awareness and
conflict resolution) Mentoring may facilitate compassion in an environment that is lacking it.
Why compassion at Workplace?
• Mentorship: Exchange of knowledge and experience in dyad
• Mentoring does not suffer significant biases associated with the majority of
Human Resources decision making (selection, compensation, etc.)
• Compassion: 1) noticing suffering, 2) empathically feeling the suffering, and 3)
acting to address the suffering .
• We’ve built a flexible mentoring/research platform that embraces mentorship
in: • Academic, Peer to Peer and Organizational (private and public) environments
• Drives awareness of suffering/needs, offers interpersonal tools to facilitate caring, and address the
suffering or needs (all meeting business needs).
• Application of Psychometric Matching Tool and Gamification
Mentorum
Why would a high power manager waste their time w/ a protégé? Recent reviews of helping behaviors suggest benefits: 1. Lowered levels of depression 2. Experiencing greater personal happiness 3. Life satisfaction 4. Self-esteem Giving help is also related to higher levels of positive mental health, life adjustment, lower feelings of hopelessness and depression. In other words, it pays to be a compassionate mentor (even if you are evil).
Mentoring and Compassion
• Mentorship has a positive, long lasting impact on career, social and financial standing.
• Benefits
• Protégés have more job: • Satisfaction • Career mobility/opportunity • Recognition • Higher promotion rate then non-‐mentored
• Mentor also benefits with:
• Greater career satisfaction • Sense of fulfillment • Understanding junior employee/new technology