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Spiritual leadership: fulfilling whole‐self needs at work
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The work community is becoming the most significant community for many people as discussed by the authors, and we are coming to expect our work to satisfy our deeply held needs for wholeness and to help provide spiritual support for our values and our aspirations for personal as well as economic growth.Abstract:
The work community is becoming the most significant community for many people. We are coming to expect our work ‐ where we spend most of our time ‐ to satisfy our deeply held needs for wholeness and to help provide spiritual support for our values and our aspirations for personal as well as economic growth. Reports on original research which supports a growing literature attesting to the centrality of work in meeting both economic and spiritual needs. Spirit refers to the vital, energizing force or principle in the person, the core of self. Respondent managers understand spirit in its secular connotation as defining self meaning and motivation for action. Begins a definition of a model of leadership based on this kind of spiritual relationship, one founded on morality, stewardship and community. Also lists some critical issues that this emerging leadership model faces.read more
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Spirituality and Performance in Organizations: A Literature Review
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed about 140 papers on workplace spirituality to review their findings on how spirituality supports organizational performance and explore how spirituality improves employees' performances and organizational effectiveness, and provide recommendations and suggestions for practitioners to incorporate spirituality positively in organizations.
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Spirituality and Performance in Organizations: A Literature Review.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed about 140 articles on workplace spirituality to review their findings on how spirituality supports organizational performance and explored how spirituality improves employees' performances and organizational effectiveness; they introduced potential benefits and caveats of bringing spirituality into the workplace; providing recommendations and suggestions for practitioners to incorporate spirituality positively in organizations.
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Spirituality and Leadership: An Empirical Review of Definitions, Distinctions, and Embedded Assumptions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze known academic articles for how they characterize workplace spirituality, explore the nexus between spirituality and leadership, and discover essential factors and conditions for promoting a theory of spiritual leadership within the context of the workplace.
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Spirituality and Leadership: An Empirical Review of Definitions, Distinctions, and Embedded Assumptions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze known academic articles for how they characterize workplace spirituality, explore the nexus between spirituality and leadership, and discover essential factors and conditions for promoting a theory of spiritual leadership within the context of the workplace.
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Linking spiritual leadership and employee pro-environmental behavior: The influence of workplace spirituality, intrinsic motivation, and environmental passion
TL;DR: In this article, the authors built and tested a theoretical model linking spiritual leadership with employee pro-environmental behavior via several intervening variables and found that spiritual leadership positively affected workplace spirituality, which in turn influenced both intrinsic motivation and environmental passion.
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The fifth discipline - the art and practice of the learning organization
TL;DR: Senge's Fifth Discipline is a set of principles for building a "learning organization" as discussed by the authors, where people expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nutured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are contually learning together.
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The Art of Japanese Management
TL;DR: In this article, the seven S concept was introduced for comparing the different approaches of Japanese and US management and the seven important categories that managers should take into account (strategy, structure, skills, staff, shared values, systems, and style).