 Bulky and inevitable compassion in management: between ethical principle, managerial value and «business» 
In management, compassion is cumbersome and ambivalent : it is a behavioral imperative, an ethical rule, but it can also be used in the service of effective management. It can also be a flourishing activity, through various forms of “social business”. Its development reflects both the rise in the consideration of feelings in management and the development of compassionate concern in contemporary societies. But as an imperative addressed to managers, compassion establishes an indirect criticism of the world of management : if empathy must be demanded with as much vigor, it is because alas it is not obvious in the universe work. Compassion is therefore cumbersome, but it is perhaps a lesser evil in the face of modern working conditions.