Workplace Spirituality: Making a Difference

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Workplace Spirituality

Making a Difference

Edited by: Yochanan Altman , Judi Neal and Wolfgang Mayrhofer

Volume 1 in the series Management, Spirituality and Religion

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110711349

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Open Access

Workplace spirituality is an emerging field of study and practice and this book asks the questions: Where have we been in the last ten years as a field and where should we be headed in the next ten years? The editors asked these questions of thought leaders from around the globe, leaders who represent different sectors, faith traditions, worldviews and organizational functions.

This volume represents the best of current thinking about the state of the field of workplace spirituality and of what the future holds. There are four themes: (1) management themes such as leadership, ethics, change management, and diversity; (2) workplace spirituality in sectors such as health and wellbeing, policing and creative industries, (3) key issues that are emerging, such as self-spirituality, mindfulness, storytelling and the importance of nature, and (4) cutting edge epistemologies and methodologies including indigenous studies, relational ontology, ethnography, and psychodynamics. These articles were chosen to provoke new thinking, new research, and new practice in the field of workplace spirituality, with the goal of helping the field mature in the next decade.

Provides a broad overview of the field of workplace spirituality while focusing the details of emergent specializations.
Provokes and expands workplace spirituality research agendas and methods.
Resource to spiritually-inspired leaders.

Author information

Professor Yochanan Altman is the Founding Editor of the Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion and Founder and Chair of the International Association of Management, Spirituality & Religion. He is the series editor of the De Gruyter book series in Management, Spirituality & Religion (MSR). He is an ‘elder’ of the Management, Spirituality & Religion Special Interest Group of the Academy of Management. Yochanan has authored/edited some 20 books and 150 articles and chapters in scholarly outlets.

Dr Judi Neal was a co-founder of the Management, Spirituality & Religion Special Interest Group of the Academy of Management in 2000 and is Chair of its ‘elders’ committee. She is a founding board member of the International Association of Management, Spirituality and Religion and a founding board member of the Conscious Leadership Guild. Her Edgewalkers platform is one the leading paradigms in the field. Judi has authored/edited 8 books 28 journal articles on the topic and her 2013 Handbook of Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace is a key text in field.

Professor Wolfgang Mayrhofer is an Olympic silver medalist and Full Professor and Head of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Management and Organisational Behaviour, WU Vienna, the second largest business university in Europe and one of the top management departments in the world. A specialist in careers and international HRM, he has a longstanding interest in religions in a work/organization context. A prolific author, Wolfgang has authored/edited some 35 books and 200 academic articles and chapters.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Introduction
1 The Past, Present and Future of Workplace Spirituality Judi Neal, Yochanan Altman and Wolfgang Mayrhofer Open Access Download PDF	1
2 Introduction to Spirituality Roger Gill Open Access Download PDF	21
Themes
3 Leadership and Spirituality Roger Gill Open Access Download PDF	45
4 Ethics and Spirituality Laszlo Zsolnai Open Access Download PDF	75
5 Spirituality and Religion: Influencing the Strategic Management Field of Research Kathryn Pavlovich Open Access Download PDF	85
6 Organizational Change and Work Spirituality: Expanding the Moral Circle Giuseppe Delmestri and Doris Schneeberger Open Access Download PDF	95
7 Organizational Behavior and Workplace Spirituality Richard Oxarart, Jeffery D. Houghton and Christopher P. Neck Open Access Download PDF	111
8 Spirituality at Work and Human Resource Management Dorothea Alewell Open Access Download PDF	125
9 Family Business and Work Spirituality and Religion John James Cater, Veland Ramadani and Leo-Paul Dana Open Access Download PDF	141
10 Gender and Diversity: Intersections of Faith, Religion, and Spirituality Edwina Pio and Guillermo Merelo Open Access Download PDF	155
Sectors
11 Health and Wellbeing in the Context of Workplace Spirituality James Campbell Quick Open Access Download PDF	171
12 Workplace Spirituality and Policing Payal Kumar and Kasturirangan Sudarshan Open Access Download PDF	181
13 Workplace Spirituality and Creative Industries Payal Kumar and Kasturirangan Sudarshan Open Access Download PDF	197
Key Issues
14 (Western) Self-Spirituality: Literature Review, Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda Nurit Zaidman Open Access Download PDF	213
15 Mindfulness and More: Spiritual Forms of Meditation Marie Holm Open Access Download PDF	225
16 Storytelling Nature-spirituality: An Autoethnographic Journey of Rediscovery David M. Boje Open Access Download PDF	233
Epistemologies/Methodologies
17 Indigenous Studies with an Integrative Research Approach Sharda S. Nandram and Puneet K. Bindlish Open Access Download PDF	249
18 Relating Differently: Exploring How a Relational Ontology Might Catalyze Transformative and Emancipatory Action- Oriented MSR Research Julia Storberg-Walker Open Access Download PDF	261
19 Workplace Spirituality and the Ethnographic Gaze Juliette Koning Open Access Download PDF	277
20 Psychodynamics and the Field of Management, Spirituality and Religion: Deciphering the Unconscious, Mapping the Soul Cécile Rozuel Open Access Download PDF	291
List of Figures Open Access Download PDF	305
List of Tables Open Access Download PDF	307
About the Authors Open Access Download PDF	309
Index Open Access Download PDF	315
MSR Journal Open Access Download PDF	321

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of management, spirituality and religion, practical theology and psychology of religion.
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 319
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 3
- Coloured Illustrations: 6
- Tables: 17
Keywords: Management; religion; spirituality; working lives; organizations

eBook

Published: January 19, 2022
ISBN: 9783110711349

Hardcover

Published: January 31, 2022
ISBN: 9783110711295