Methods of Mitigating the Paradox of Compassion in the Organizational Behavior of Government Employees: A Case of Animal Protection Agencies in Taiwan

According to psychologists, for workers whose job is to help others, their quality of service is improved if they have compassion. However, compassion potentially produces the side effect of compassion fatigue, which decreases service quality. According to sociologists, professionals who must intera...

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Authors: Wu, Chuang-Hsien (Author) ; Tsai, Ya-Chuan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: David Publishing Company 2020
In: Cultural and religious studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 8, Issue: 5, Pages: 255-273
Further subjects:B Compassion fatigue
B Structural Equation Modeling
B Compassion
B Gate-Keeper
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