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Leading Spiritually This page intentionally left blank Leading Spiritually Ten Effective Approaches to Workplace Spirituality Edited by Joan Marques and Satinder Dhiman LEADINGSPIRITUALLY Copyright©JoanMarquesandSatinderDhiman,2014. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-45562-8 Allrightsreserved. Firstpublishedin2014by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN® intheUnitedStates—adivisionofSt.Martin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. WherethisbookisdistributedintheUK,Europeandtherestofthe World,thisisbyPalgraveMacmillan,adivisionofMacmillanPublishers Limited,registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,of Houndmills,Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabove companiesandhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnited States,theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-49821-5 ISBN 978-1-137-45563-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137455635 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Leadingspiritually:teneffectiveapproachestoworkplace spirituality/editedbyJoanMarquesandSatinderDhiman. pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 1. Work—Religiousaspects. 2. Management—Religiousaspects. 3. Leadership—Religiousaspects. I. Marques,Joan. II. Dhiman,Satinder. BL65.W67L432014 204(cid:2).4—dc23 2014024874 AcataloguerecordofthebookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. DesignbyIntegraSoftwareServices Firstedition:December2014 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 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 This page intentionally left blank 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
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