Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
Miia Paakkanen studies compassion and works on her PhD on compassion as an attitude and a way of living, being and leading.The title of her PhD is In Search of Compassionate Mindset. Paakkanen studies compassion as a concept and social process on individual, relational, organizational and leadership levels.
Paakkanen is a co-founder of the multidisciplinary, international, and pioneering CoPassion research project that studies compassion in business. CoPassion is the first project in Finland and among the first ones in the world to study the effect of compassiona interventions on the well-being and productivity of employees and organizations. CoPassion has received over million euro funding from Tekes, the Finnish funding agency of technology and innovation. Paakkanen graduated in Business and is now working at the theology deparment doing research mainly in the fields of psychology, management and positive organizations.
Description of research and teaching
5 cr University course: Good Working Life: Leading Well-Being and Success, April-May
Student understands and learns to acknowledge and analyze the key approaches and latest scientific theories of positive leadership and good working life. The course draws from Positive Organizational Scholarship and Positive Psychology. The course focuses on aspects of a humane working life and studies the elements that promote individual and organizational flourishing. The sessions focus on leading individual and organizational flourishing, strengths and virtues, emotions at work, high quality connections and positive relationships, intrinsic motivation and basic human needs, and meaning at work. After the course the student is able to evaluate the factors that affect and foster optimal states of individuals and organizations. The course assignments direct students to apply their know-how of positive leadership and good working life dynamics to their own life as well.
Course sessions focus inter alia on individual and organizational prosperity, identifying strengths and management, the role of emotions and leadership in working life, high-quality social contexts and positive relations, internal motivation, as well as the relevance of the work. The course, the student is able to assess the human and the organization's optimal state of being positively active management. tasks of the course, students are guided to apply the good work positive factors, as well as self-management and other influence in practice.
External positions
Coach, work life emotional skills for leaders
Vice president, Finnish Positive Psychology Association
Fields of Science
- 614 Theology
- Social Sustainability
- Compassion
- CoPassion
- Meaningfulness
- Values
- 512 Business and Management
- Compassion
- Compassionate Leadership
- Interventions
- Social Sustainability
- Servant Leadership
- Emotion at work
- High-Performing Teams
- High-Quality Connections
- Psychological Safety
- Positive Organizational Scholarship
- Trust
- Collaboration
- Innovativeness
- 515 Psychology
- Positive Psychology
- Compassion
- Self-compassion
- Emotions
- Compassionate Mindset
- Social connection
- Love
- Motivation
- Character strengths
- Emotional intelligence
- Courage
- Vulnerability
- Trust
- 3112 Neurosciences
- Empathy
- Compassion
- Mindfulness
- Mind
- 611 Philosophy
- Systems intelligence
International and National Collaboration
Publications and projects within past five years.
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Empatian voima työssä
Paakkanen, M., 25 Feb 2022, Helsinki: WSOY. 318 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › General public
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In search of copassion: Creating a novel concept to promote re-enchantment at work
Pessi, A. B., Seppanen, A. M., Spannari, J., Gronlund, H., Martela, F. & Paakkanen, M., Jan 2022, In: BRQ-Business research quarterly. 25, 1, p. 82-97 16 p., 23409444211058179.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Awakening Compassion in Managers: A New Emotional Skills Intervention to Improve Managerial Compassion
Paakkanen, M., Martela, F., Hakanen, J., Uusitalo, L. & Pessi, A., Dec 2021, In: Journal of Business & Psychology. 36, 6, p. 1095–1108 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Responding to Positive Emotions at Work: The Four Steps and Potential Benefits of a Validating Response to Coworkers’ Positive Experiences
Paakkanen, M., Martela, F. & Pessi, A., 11 Oct 2021, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 12, 14 p., 668160.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Itsemyötätuntoa työelämään
Ahlvik, C. & Paakkanen, M. A., 2017, Myötätunnon mullistava voima. Pessi, A. B., Martela, F. & Paakkanen, M. (eds.). Jyväskylä: PS-kustannus, p. 151-165 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific
Projects
- 2 Finished
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CoPassion: The Revolutionary Power of Compassion (CoPassion)
Pessi, A. B., Martela, F., Spännäri, J., Grönlund, H., Hakanen, J., Juntunen, E., Uusitalo, L., Vuorinen, K., Paakkanen, M. & Seppänen, A. M.
Filosofian akatemia Oy, Conbalance Oy, Suomen kansallisgalleria (ent. Valtion taidemuseo), MTV Oy, Devoi Oy, Espoon kaupunki, LähiTapiola Keskinäinen vakuutusyhtiö, Abbedissa Network Oy, Onesto Services Oy, Human Advice Oy, Tekes
01/01/2015 → 30/06/2017
Project: Research project
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CoCare: Cooperation in care. Meaning systems, chances and conflicts (CoCare)
Pessi, A. B., Grönlund, H., Spännäri, J., Salonen, A. S., Paakkanen, M. & Rieppo, S.
01/09/2014 → 31/08/2018
Project: Research project
Activities
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Member of Positive Organizational Scholarship network of scholars managed by Michigan University Ross School of Business Center for Positive Organizations (External organisation)
Miia Paakkanen (Board member)
Jan 2018 → …Activity: Membership types › Membership or other role in research network
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Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Miia Paakkanen (Attendee)
9 May 2017 → 10 May 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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Global Shapers' Helsinki AI (artificial Intelligence) seminar at PwC
Miia Paakkanen (Attendee)
2 Nov 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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Stanford University
Miia Paakkanen (Visiting researcher)
22 Jan 2017 → 4 Feb 2017Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Academic visit to other institution
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Rosalind Picard MIT Media Lab: Adventures in building Emotional Intelligence Technologies lecture
Miia Paakkanen (Attendee)
Feb 2017 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Press/Media
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Helsingin Sanomat: Myötätunto korostuu etenkin etätöissä, ja se on taito, jonka voi myös oppia
23/01/2022
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Telma (professional l magazine) writes about our book The Revolutionary Power of Compassion (Myötätunnon Mullistava Voima, PS-Kustannus). Ekholm, Riitta (2017). Myötätunnon Mullistava Voima, Telma, 28.11.2017.
28/11/2017
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Yle Uutiset: Tutkimus: Kylmä kohtelu työpaikalla vaikuttaa jaksamiseen – myötätunto on mullistava voima, Yle uutiset, 5.10.2017: https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-9865589
05/10/2017
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Yle Uutiset -haastattelu: Eikö työkaverisi taaskaan kuuntele? Myötätunto lisää yritysten tuottavuutta.
28/05/2017
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Interview for Trend Magazine - Most important at Work: Compassion
01/12/2016
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media