Abstract
This symposium focuses on the tough choices actors need to make or challenges actors need to overcome while trying to respond compassionately towards sufferers in organizations and communities. This symposium builds on the momentum surrounding interest in the research and practice of compassion at work, striving to both complicate and enrich current theories of compassion with an explicit dilemma focus. We bring together six papers addressing different dilemmas that mark the compassion process. While each paper focuses on different dilemmas, the papers as a set reveal the complexity and the contradictory forces at work that shape whether and how compassion unfolds in and around organizations and communities. In contrast to psychologists who tend to see compassion as a
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