ABSTRACT Compassion in organizations benefits the giver and receiver of compassion, and the organization as a whole. Organizations with resource limitations, however, face risks and liabilities for compassion organizing. In South Africa, an emerging economy with a challenged socioeconomic environment, human service organizations face resource limitations. Organizations providing health and social services, such as home-based care, child- and youth care and medicine, in the context of a high burden of disease and limited material resources, face personal resource limitations, such as compassion fatigue and burnout. This article discusses individual staff capacities required for compassion in organizations in resource-limited human service organizations. It applies individual and participatory sensemaking, with embodied experience, as capacities to distinguish between the experiences of empathic concern and personal distress when working with others who are suffering. It serves as a foundation for professional development and supervision of agents working in these circumstances – and should be of primary concern to the HR and Coaching fraternities.

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南非资源有限的组织的同情能力

摘要组织中的同情心有益于同情的给予者和接受者，以及整个组织。但是，资源有限的组织在同情组织方面面临风险和责任。在南非，一个新兴经济体，社会经济环境面临挑战，人类服务组织面临资源限制。在疾病负担高，物质资源有限的情况下，提供健康和社会服务（如家庭护理，儿童和青年护理和药品）的组织面临个人资源的限制，例如同情疲劳和倦怠。本文讨论了在资源有限的人类服务组织中组织的同情心所需的个人员工能力。它运用了个人和参与式的感觉，并具有丰富的经验，与他人一起工作时，有能力区分同情关注和个人苦恼的经历。它是在这种情况下工作的代理人的专业发展和监督的基础-应该是HR和Coaching兄弟会的首要关注点。