Pub Date : 2019-04-11DOI: 10.1080/14766086.2019.1602074
K. Phipps
ABSTRACT Other authors have warned that the legal standard of accommodation is insufficient as a strategy for practicing managers leading religiously and spiritually diverse workforces. Recent changes in the legal context of faith at work have only amplified those concerns. This article examines the adoption of state laws known as Religious Freedom Restoration Acts, or RFRA’s, as well as the US Supreme Court ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. Both of these changes exacerbate the concerns previously articulated, and illustrate the limitations of using the legal standard of accommodation as a management strategy for negotiating diverse religious and spiritual expression in the workplace. The nature of these two developments is explained, together with a discussion of their significance for practitioners and researchers in the field of management, spirituality, and religion (MSR).
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Pub Date : 2019-03-15DOI: 10.1080/14766086.2018.1541756
Yaprak Kalafatoglu, T. Turgut
ABSTRACT Previous research on the antecedents of mindfulness is scarce. This study examines the individual and contextual antecedents, specifically ethical climate and goal orientation, of trait mindfulness. Data for this study came from 302 white-collar employees working in Istanbul who completed cross-sectional questionnaires on ethical climate, goal orientation, and mindfulness. First, it was found that caring climate, which refers to organizations that consider the wellness of its workforce, positively predicted employees’ trait mindfulness. Second, goal orientation was significantly associated with trait mindfulness. Mastery and performance-approach orientations both predicted positively to trait mindfulness with mastery orientation the strongest predictor. In contrast, a performance-avoidance orientation predicted negatively to trait mindfulness. As a caring climate predicts to employees’ mindfulness, it is recommended that organizations create a workplace where employees perceive themselves as family members, with an emphasis on teamwork, participation, and intrinsic motivation.
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Pub Date : 2019-03-15DOI: 10.1080/14766086.2018.1547217
L. Zsolnai
Clair Brown is a well-known economics professor at UC Berkeley. Her new book provides a fresh, new insight into the field of Buddhist economics. What is the real novelty of Clair Brown’s book is th...
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Pub Date : 2019-03-15DOI: 10.1080/14766086.2018.1548972
P. Pruzan, L. Zsolnai
ABSTRACT This interview with Peter Pruzan shows his personal and professional journey from optimization to transformation, a path to the wellspring of rationality, ethics and spirituality.
本文采访了彼得•普鲁赞，展示了他从优化到转型的个人和职业之旅，一条通往理性、伦理和灵性源泉的道路。
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Pub Date : 2019-03-15DOI: 10.1080/14766086.2018.1524785
Cécile Rozuel
ABSTRACT Organizational tensions are overwhelmingly considered problems to be solved promptly, because they disrupt a rightful order and impede the normal flow of effective practice, production and service. I propose to look at organizational tensions through a more holistic and spiritually infused lens. The discussion is articulated around a core question: from a symbolic and spiritual viewpoint, how do we make sense of and how can we handle the inevitable tensions that fuel organizational life? Following the work of C.G. Jung, I identify tensions as opportunities for soulful learning and as synchronistic opportunities which point toward a chance at awakening something latent in our self. I outline how the complex and artful practice of alchemy offers a process of meaning-making of tensions in organizational life that is both systematic and creative, allowing a deeper understanding of what transformation entails, what shapes it can take, and how we can be present to it.
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Pub Date : 2019-02-05DOI: 10.1080/14766086.2019.1574599
Stephen Sirris
ABSTRACT Drawing on a qualitative study in the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Norway, this article analyzes how Deans as religious leaders and organizational managers implement a clergy reform. In an ecclesiastical context, traditionally characterized by weak managerial control and strong professional autonomy, the article explores how Deans use the ambiguity of the reform and negotiate between spiritual and organizational responsibilities. Through such efforts, analytically termed conceptual work, managers reframe an administrative reform into professional strategy and seek to conceptualize the institution of clergy as both a traditional calling and a modern occupation. The article contributes to the literature by theorizing through systematic analyses on the strategic efforts of religious leaders on a micro-level within organizations, thereby expanding our understanding of various types of institutional work and showing how leaders mediate between differing demands in their daily work.
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Pub Date : 2019-02-05DOI: 10.1080/14766086.2019.1572529
adeel ahmed, Mohd Anuar Arshad, A. Mahmood, S. Akhtar
ABSTRACT The main objective of this study was to investigate the impact of spiritual values (i.e., sense of meaning, sense of community, and wisdom) on employee’s helping behavior. This study also investigated the moderating effect of the Islamic work ethic (IWE). The research framework was supported by the Al-Ghazali theory of soul. A cross-sectional design with purposive sampling was used to collect data from 344 first-line managers within the Pakistan airline industry. A total of 316 useable questionnaires with a response rate of 49.37% was used for data analysis. Partial least square (PLS) second-generation structural equation modeling (SEM) method (Smart-PLS software) was employed to test the hypothesized relationship. The current study findings revealed that spiritual values had a positive influence in affecting employees’ helping behavior. In addition, the moderation test showed a significant influence of IWE on the specific relationships of spiritual values and helping behavior. Implications for theoretical and practical discussion and limitations of the study are taken into account along with suggestions for future research. This study enriches the existing literature on spiritual values, employee behavior, and IWE. Abbreviations: IWE: Islamic Work Ethic; AVE: Average variance extracted; IATA: International Air Transport Association; PLS: Partial Least Square; SEM: Structural Equation Modeling; PIA: Pakistan International Airline
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Pub Date : 2019-02-05DOI: 10.1080/14766086.2019.1574598
Suparak Suriyankietkaew, Pornkasem Kantamara
ABSTRACT Globally, ethical concerns principally focus on the need for business ethics as well as an emphasis on spiritual leadership to enhance long-term effectiveness and corporate sustainability. This paper responds to a call for further studies of business ethics and spirituality in workplaces and advances the currently limited knowledge in the realm, in particular, from an Eastern Buddhism perspective. Using a case study research approach, this paper investigates how a modern company can ethically and spiritually lead and manage a successful, sustainable business. A Buddhist-based philosophy of “Sufficiency Economy,” as advocated by United Nations Development Programme was used as the research framework to examine the philosophy’s ethical and spiritual application. The findings suggest that, to achieve long-term corporate sustainability, a successful business enterprise should embrace good ethical and spiritual values via ethics/morality, knowledge, moderation, reasonableness, resilience, compassion and care for its stakeholders. Implications, limitations and future research are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-24DOI: 10.1080/14766086.2019.1570474
C. Driscoll, E. Mcisaac, Elden Wiebe
ABSTRACT We interviewed leaders of small businesses who have integrated spirituality from diverse spiritual traditions into their workplaces. We contribute to a better understanding of the motives and deeply held values behind the integration of spirituality in the small business workplace, of how spiritual values and meaning are manifest in small business, and of how spirituality can be integrated into small business processes and behaviors. We build upon previous theoretical development of an authentically and spirituality informed management theory by focusing on the concepts of immanence and involvement, and integration and interconnectedness, as they relate to ethical and socially responsible behavior in workplaces. Our findings contrast some ways that workplace spirituality has been reported to be institutionalized in the management, spirituality, and religion literature.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1080/14766086.2018.1470026
J. Fischer
Abstract Within the last couple of decades, new types of religious logos have emerged. Notably, halal (in Arabic, halal literally means “permissible” or “lawful”) logos are increasingly appearing on products, certificates, websites as well as in restaurants, shops, and advertisements globally. However, little empirical attention has been paid to these religious logos as elements of visual systems, or to their effects. This article fills that gap. I argue that religious logos are not well understood theoretically, conceptually, or empirically and that they signify a new phase in logo development characterized by forms of religious regulation, certification, and standardization on a global scale. Building on empirical research on halal logos in Singapore, this paper shows that modern religious logos can fruitfully be explored at the interface between archive studies and ethnography.
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