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How manager empathy affects work resilience

How manager empathy affects work resilience

In ensuring workers are not only functioning but resilient, empathy matters more than ever, the executives agreed. With real-time glimpses into colleagues’ home lives, “we actually have more opportunity to have empathy now than we did before,” Felch said.

Hummel cited above-and-beyond transparency by company leadership as a template other company leaders should consider in service of addressing worker uncertainty.

Source: How managers can develop empathy for their employees – Business Insider

We hear that schools should be run more like businesses. I can see the point of that, in certain aspects, but since profit is not the main goal of a school it is hard to run a school entirely like a business. However, there are several parallels in the business works on managers and workers that apply to school administrators & teachers and teachers & students.