ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at Maori peoples, and the research within Maori communities, for insights. It explores what might happen to managers, consultants, policy-makers, and students knowledge of care and compassion at work if critical organization theorists focus on theorizing from Indigenous knowledges through story-based theorizing processes. People and their communities are likely to thrive in organizations underpinned by an economy of care. In colonized states, organizations are mostly colonial-type structures driven by market economies. Some researchers believe Indigenous cultural aspects may be an opportunity for companies and managers to gain greater organizational outcomes, arguing that how Indigenous workers see their culture portrayed and respected in the workplace can be significantly linked to worker pride. Some researchers have commented that a lack of consideration for the role Indigenous values play in organizations is a serious cultural shortcoming in the literature. Compassion in organizations will receive renewed criticism through research processes guided by critical organization and Indigenous thought.
