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Spirituality and leadership praxis
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In this article, the authors review leadership praxis from the frames of wider spiritualities, link spirituality search with contemporary managerialist practices and survey the breadth of, and commonalities within, varied philosophic positions with regard to the spiritual search.Abstract:
Spirituality is a long‐neglected dimension in the leadership issue as it is in the psychological contract implicit in work organizations. Traditionally rooted in religion, there are wider spiritualities that the organizational actor can draw upon and a burgeoning literature on personal meaning and transformative leadership. This paper reviews leadership praxis from the frames of wider spiritualities, links spirituality search with contemporary managerialist practices and surveys the breadth of, and commonalities within, varied philosophic positions with regard to the spiritual search.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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Philosophical Foundations of Workplace Spirituality: A Critical Approach
George Gotsis,Zoi Kortezi +1 more
TL;DR: A critical review of the literature on workplace spirituality by examining the underlying rationale of the main trends regarding spirit at work and by negotiating their strengths and weaknesses is provided in this paper. But it is pointed out that even "respectful plurality" fails to fully capture the complexity of such a multidimensional phenomenon as spirituality.
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