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Journal Article
Petriglieri G., Maitlis S. (2019). When a Colleague Is Grieving Harvard Business Review, 97(4), (pp116-123).
Grief is a universal human experience, yet workplace culture is often inhospitable to people suffering profound loss. Managers come to work prepared to celebrate births and birthdays, and even to handle illnesses, but when it comes to death, they fall silent and avert their gaze. The default approach is to try to spare the office from grief, leaving bereaved employees alone for a few days and then hoping they’ll return expediently to work.