Workplace Spirituality: Making Spirituality Work
Spirituality can be a controversial concept in modern workplaces, given the need to treat all persons of all faiths with dignity and respect. However, according to Houghton (et al., 2016), spirituality can be an important source of competitive advantage for an organization, given its ability to enable both leaders and subordinates alike to develop a sense of meaningful connection to their work. Houghton (et al., 2016) proposes that all six types of leadership: spiritual leadership, servant leadership, authentic leadership, ethical leadership, empowering leadership, and shared leadership might promote a healthier and more cohesive and productive workplace environment (Houghton et al., p. 194). Paradoxically, however, the authors believe that spiritual leadership, with its explicit focus upon hope, faith, and an altruistic perspective, has the very greatest potential to foster spiritual workplace diversity.
For example, according...
5). Even if
employees do not embrace the same religious doctrine, the idea of improving the world and creating a new and better environment for new generations is critical. This...
…organizations that are committed to
learning from the environment, not simply in terms of customer wants and desires, or potential changes in the market environment, but also in terms of evolving values in the greater environment (What is spiritual leadership, 2022). Because spiritual leadership is not anchored to a particular faith, this means from learning from all spiritual orientations, not simply the organizational leaders personal orientation. Although all the different forms of leadership are valuable, the greater demands that work seems meaningful to employees makes it particularly amenable and useful to the demands of work today. Spiritual leadership offers a reason for workers to come to work, and a higher…
