Editorial

摘要

In a recent round of interviews of human resource candidates for the management department in my university, one such candidate was asked what he felt was his most valuable competency that he was bringing to the position. His response surprised most of the interview panel. We were all expecting to hear something like effectiveness, management, efficiency or some other business-laden concept. Instead, he told us the most valuable competency he felt he demonstrated that he would be bringing as a professor of human resources was "compassion". He felt that this benefitted both his students and his peers. He proceeded to provide several examples of how he had demonstrated compassion in the course of his university teaching.