Despite Peter Frost’s (1999, p. 128) call for organizational scholars and practitioners to “find suffering as a significant aspect of organizational life,” both have largely remained silent about it. This silence misrepresents the fact that suffering is a pervasive, inescapable, and costly organizational reality. Suffering matters, and a recognition of our general inattention to it exposes an under-appreciated shortcoming of established theories and approaches to management. We must acknowledge, account for, and explicitly investigate suffering if we are to truly understand the full humanity of organizational life. Accordingly, this paper outlines promising areas for future research on suffering in organizations.

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为什么痛苦很重要！

尽管 Peter Frost (1999, p. 128) 呼吁组织学者和实践者“发现痛苦是组织生活的一个重要方面”，但他们基本上都对此保持沉默。这种沉默曲解了这样一个事实，即苦难是一种普遍存在、不可避免且代价高昂的组织现实。痛苦的事情，以及我们对它普遍忽视的认识，暴露了既定的管理理论和方法被低估的缺点。如果我们要真正理解组织生活的完整人性，我们就必须承认、解释并明确调查痛苦。因此，本文概述了未来研究组织中的痛苦的有前景的领域。