Change, Loss, and Grief in Organizations
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This symposium, titled “Change, Loss, and Grief in Organizations,” explores the multifaceted impact of change, loss, and grief on employees and organizations. Change, loss, and grief—whether personal or professional—are universal experiences that shape the work-life interface. However, organizational scholarship has only begun to unpack the complex ways these experiences influence individuals and workplaces. This symposium advances understanding by examining the varied and nuanced ways individuals process both personal and professional change, loss, and grief, including how these processes affect communication, sense-making, and recovery; and strategies organizations, leaders, and colleagues can adopt to effectively support those navigating these experiences and emotions. Bringing together diverse methodological approaches—mixed methods, qualitative, and quantitative—this symposium highlights innovative perspectives on how employees experience, cope with, and adapt to change, loss, and grief in the workplace. Research-based insights from these papers aim to inform organizational policies and practices that foster resilience, compassion, and well-being. The symposium seeks to engage scholars interested in change, loss, and grief, while offering actionable recommendations for future research and practice. Understanding Loss: How Experiences of Loss and Coping Strategies Impact Wellbeing Author: F Katelynn Boland; Answered and Abandoned: Navigating Meaningfulness and Mental Health After Abandoning a Calling Author: Shannon Leigh Sciarappa; Boston College In for the Long Haul: How Long COVID and Loss of Self Shape Identity, Well-being, and Work Author: Elizabeth E. Stillwell; The London School of Economics & Political Science Author: Jayci Robison Pickering; When Loss Bleeds into Work Life: How Workers Manage Disenfranchised Grief Author: Elizabeth Sheprow; Harvard Business School Author: Alexandra Feldberg; Harvard Business School Why Grit Doesn’t Work For Grief Author: Daniel J. Chiacchia; University of Toronto Author: Rachel Lise Ruttan; University of Toronto Author: Katherine Ann DeCelles; University of Toronto Author: Sora Jun; Rice University Author: George Newman; University of Toronto
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".