Spirituality and Ethics: A Literature Review

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to review spirituality and ethics literature and to examine how spirituality relates to ethics and leaders/employees' ethical behaviors at work. Within this scope, the papers in the years of 2008-2018 were examined and the relationship between spirituality and ethics were laid out empirically and conceptually. Also, spirituality and ethics were examined in regard to decision making, sustainability, the role they can play in world problems, religion, and secularism. This paper puts forward the effect of spiritualty on ethics and ethical behaviors in the organization, providing recommendations and suggestions to incorporate spirituality to help ethics spread at work.

Linking sustainability and spirituality: A preliminary assessment in pursuit of a sustainable and ethically correct world

“…Although presented in relation to the religion construct, spirituality is a much more inclusive concept, which is representative of various peoples, in differing cultures and belief systems (Göçen and Özğan (2018). A compliance with formal structure and methods of fundamentalist religion practices is often centered around a recognized authority, remaining resistive to stewardship, whereas spirituality is more conducive fostering environmental values, in a trajectory toward sustainability (Preston and Shin, 2022).…”