The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of the leader's compassion perceived by the organization members on the organization members' failure tolerance and the organization members' performance. Specifically, we tried to find out whether the leader’s compassion affects the failure tolerance, job performance, organizational citizenship behavior, and creative behavior of organizationmembers. In addition, we attempted to investigate whether organization members' failure tolerance mediates the relationship between a leader's compassion and organization members' performance. To test these predictions data were collected from 131 members working in hospitals, public institutions and financial institutions in Gwangju and Jeonnam regions. The results of this study showed that a leader’s compassion affects organization members’ failure tolerance. The results also showed that a leader’s compassion affected job performance, organizational citizenship behavior, and creative behavior of the organization members. In addition the results showed that the failure tolerance of organization members mediated between a leader’s compassion and job performance, organizational citizenship behavior, and creative behavior. The results of this study have an academic significance in that the research on failure tolerance, which has been mainly studied in pedagogy and psychology, has been tested in the field of organizational behavior, thereby verifying the positive effect on the failure experience within the organization, and to alleviate the pain of organization members who suffered failure. It can be said that it is significant in revealing that organization members maintains a constructive attitude by being positively influenced by a leader’s compassion. In discussion section theoretical and practical issues of this studywere discussed and limitations of this study and future study directionwere also discussed.