Organizational Spiritual Maturity: A Goal of Positive Leaders and Direction for Change

Freer, Adam S.; Robertson, Peter J.

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“…the organizational spirituality maturity, which may theoretically engender the manifestation of organizational qualities such as love, purpose for the common good, wisdom, integrity, continual evolution and spiritually mature leadership and management approach. Under this view, organizations that are aligned with this sort of business orientation are portrayed to serve the greater good (Freer and Robertson, 2020). Finally, scholars have also pointed out the key role of leaderships in promoting OS (Pfaltzgraff-Carlson, 2020).…”

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Organizational spirituality: a literature review and research agenda

Vasconcelos¹

2022

IJOA

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to ascertain whether the organizational spirituality (OS) also called for spiritually-based organization (SBO) concept continues to be, in fact, a source of refreshing ideas to the organizational studies. Design/methodology/approach Regarding that OS is a theme that does not pertain to the scientific mainstream, the criteria to select valuable work were broader. On this basis, this literature review focused on a set of distinct sources: empirical and theoretical-conceptual papers (i.e. peer-reviewed), books, book chapters and doctoral dissertations. The material should be written in English and matched specifically the terms “spiritually-based organization,” “organizational spirituality” and “spiritual organization” in the websites of prominent scientific publications such as Google Scholar, EBSCO, Emerald, Sage and Elsevier. The premise was to portray an ample overview about what the scientific research has been yielded on this topic covering the period of 23 years (i.e. 1999–2022). Findings Data revealed that a large portion of the scholarly work of OS has been largely published in journals of modest factor impact or in books/book chapters. Such evidence indicates that OS definitively is not embraced by the scientific mainstream, despite the relevance of this topic. Further, it appears that the study, research and writings about SBOs, despite their positive effects and features, do not draw the attention of the majority of academic community. As a result, this field of knowledge has been characterized by scant work. This conclusion sounds somewhat astonishing considering that companies strongly driven by financial and economic concerns have proved not to be useful to humankind well-being and the planet. Originality/value This review sought to concentrate only on scholarly work that could bring something noteworthy to the debate of the OS concept. By the same token, other related concepts such as workplace spirituality and spirituality in the workplace, which have been properly explored, were not approached here. The author surmises that such path may account for somewhat the reduced number of work found about this topic, despite the fact this review drew on Google Scholar as well.

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Organizational spirituality: a literature review and research agenda

Vasconcelos¹

2022

IJOA

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“…Modern organizations are incorporating spiritually oriented culture for improving employees' creativity and performance. Spirituality at workplace has the potential to light up the creative power of the employees with awareness & intuition leading to creativity (Freer, & Robertson, 2020). Spiritualized culture enhances teamwork and employee commitment to the organization it also contributes to develop a more purposeful and compelling organizational vision with increased innovation.…”

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Effect of Workplace Spirituality on Project Team Creativity with Mediating Role of Project Team Prudence and Project Team Virtue

Ali¹,

Rehman²

2021

European Project Management Journal

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Purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of workplace spirituality on project team creativity and the mediating role of project team prudence & project team virtue between workplace spirituality and project team creativity. The data for this study has been collected from Telecommunication Services Provider Industry of Pakistan. We tested the effect of workplace spirituality on project team creativity and further examined the mediating effects of project team prudence & project team virtue between workplace spirituality and project team creativity. Results indicated that workplace spirituality has a moderate correlation with project team creativity and there is partial mediation in our model via only one mediator project team prudence. Future researchers may opt to conduct the research by including additional moderating variables, examining underlying factors of workplace spirituality and establish their relationship with project team creativity both at higher and medium level of project team management.

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“…While the concept of organizational spiritual maturity is more fully described by Freer (2017) and Freer and Robertson (2019), for present purposes, OSM is defined as the extent to which an organization recognizes its interconnectedness with its members, its community, and the planet and consequently respects, values, and seeks to care for and benefit them. Freer (2017) conducted a literature review to identify organizational qualities that reflect this definition.…”

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Organizational Spiritual Maturity (OSM): The Root of Workplace Well-Being

Freer¹,

Robertson²

2020

The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Well-Being

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Creating sustainable workplace well-being (WWB) requires recognizing and addressing the root causes of WWB. This chapter argues that WWB is rooted in organizational spiritual maturity (OSM) and that organizations with greater OSM will naturally have greater WWB and vice versa. Further, it is argued that many inhibitors of WWB cannot be fully addressed without addressing the spiritual roots of problems by increasing OSM. Increasing OSM has the dual effect of increasing the desired positive aspects of WWB and reducing the factors

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Organizational Spiritual Maturity: A Goal of Positive Leaders and Direction for Change

Cited by 5 publications

References 55 publications

Organizational spirituality: a literature review and research agenda

Organizational spirituality: a literature review and research agenda

Effect of Workplace Spirituality on Project Team Creativity with Mediating Role of Project Team Prudence and Project Team Virtue

Organizational Spiritual Maturity (OSM): The Root of Workplace Well-Being

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