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Area of Science:

  • Organizational Behavior
  • Workplace Psychology
  • Human Resource Management

Background:

  • Workplace compassion is increasingly recognized for its impact on employee outcomes.
  • Understanding the psychological mechanisms linking compassion to performance is crucial for organizational development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the mediating roles of positive emotion and job crafting in the compassion-job performance relationship.
  • To offer a deeper mechanistic understanding of how compassion influences employee performance.

Main Methods:

  • Survey data collected from 312 employees in large South Korean companies.
  • Statistical analysis employed to test sequential mediation models.

Main Results:

  • A significant positive relationship was found between the experience of compassion and job performance.
  • Positive emotion and job crafting sequentially mediated the link between compassion and job performance.

Conclusions:

  • Fostering a compassionate work environment can enhance employee job performance.
  • Promoting compassion encourages positive emotions and proactive job crafting, contributing to better performance outcomes.