Leading Spiritually: Ten Effective Approaches to Workplace Spirituality

194 Pages·2014·0.971 MB·English

by  Joan Marques PhD, EdD, Satinder Dhiman PhD, EdD (eds.)

Leading Spiritually
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Leading Spiritually
Ten Effective Approaches to Workplace
Spirituality
Edited by Joan Marques and Satinder Dhiman
LEADINGSPIRITUALLY
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Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
1. Work—Religiousaspects. 2. Management—Religiousaspects.
3. Leadership—Religiousaspects. I. Marques,Joan.
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Contents
ListofFiguresandTables vii
Introduction ix
1 WakefulatWork:ASpiritualApproach 1
JoanMarques
2 TheEthicalandSpiritualPhilosophyoftheBhagavad
G¯ıt¯a 19
SatinderDhiman
3 SpiritualityatWork:TheUmbrellaofTrust 45
M.EileenHiggins
4 Three-DimensionalLeaders:Complexity,Soulat
Work,andBusinessSuccess 63
BiruteRegine
5 InvitingBuddhatoWork 77
JoanMarques
6 TheRelationshipoftheBasesofCompetenceSkillsto
WorkplaceSpirituality 99
FrederickT.Evers
7 ASaint’sClarionCalltoHumanity 113
SatinderDhiman
8 EvolutionasaSpiritualJourney 137
RichardBarrett
9 WisdomofaLeader 151
KeikoKrahnke,SharonK.Clinebell,andIsaac
Wanasika
vi Contents
10 InfluencesofReligiononSpiritualityintheWorkplace 167
JerryBibermanandJoanMarques
ListofContributors 179
Index 183
Figures and Tables
Figures
1.1 FOCUS—Focus—strategytowardwakefulness 16
3.1 TheUmbrellaofTrust 54
5.1 TheFourNobleTruths 85
Tables
1.1 Personal,relational,andprofessionalreflection 8
3.1 Synonyms,terms,andwordsidentifiedthroughout
theSAWacademicliterature 49
3.2 SAWkeyconcepts andtheirsynonyms/descriptors 51
8.1 Thesevenstagesofpsychologicaldevelopment 140
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Introduction
Since the movement of workplace spirituality emerged a few decades
ago,anumberofbooksandarticleshavebeenpublishedonthistopic.
Therehavebeenavarietyofopinionsonwhatspiritualityinthework-
placeshouldexactlycomprise.Someresearchersfeltthattherewasan
undeniable link with religion, since spirituality pertains to the quest
for a higher level of realization in life, while others felt that spiritu-
ality was a much broader phenomenon than religion and should not
beconfusedwithit.Yet,regardlessofthediscrepanciesinviewpoints,
all researchers on the topic agree that workplace spirituality aims at
establishing and promoting a work environment that is not merely
bottom-linedriven,butwherehumanconnectionsaredeeplyvalued.
It is with this common stance in mind that we want to present to
you some useful applications to workplace spirituality, derived from a
broadvarietyofpsychologiesandphilosophies.Ouraimistoprepare
current business students and future business leaders for a mind-set
that has been steadily emerging in recent years: the acknowledg-
mentofso-called“softskills”suchasempathy,emotionalintelligence,
compassion, and listening as important leadership qualities in the
twenty-firstcentury.
The authors’ team has identified two overarching reasons why the
informationsharedinthisbookisusefultoyou:
1. There is, in general, a deep and genuine concern about the recent
trendsandbehaviorsofbusinessleaders.
Enron, Tyco, Worldcom, Arthur Andersen, and so many other
business entities in the past decade have made us understand that
leaders have gravitated to a severe short-term profit and selfish
mind-set, with very little compassion for other stakeholders than
merely the shareholders of their companies. In a study, which one
of the editors undertook with a colleague a few years ago, she
found that empathy has been gravely downplayed in importance
in the minds of business students. She also found that many of
the qualities sought in business leaders were similar to the traits