Understanding the Basic Assumptions About Human Nature in Workplace Spirituality

Lips‐Wiersma, Marjolein; Mills, Albert J.

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“…Although both of these streams have grown rapidly, they have grown largely in isolation from each other. The divide between these two streams of literature is obvious in the lack of conversations across them (Lips-Wiersma and Mills 2014). As a result, we have learned much about the diverse representations and consequences of spirituality, but we know little about the individual and organizational dynamics that might govern workplace spirituality.…”

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Spirals of Spirituality: A Qualitative Study Exploring Dynamic Patterns of Spirituality in Turkish Organizations

Karakas

Sarigöllü

2017

J Bus Ethics

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This paper explores organizational spirituality, uncovers it as spiralling dynamics of both positive and negative potentialities, and proposes how leaders can shape these dynamics to improve the human conditions at the workplace. Based on case study of five Turkish organizations and drawing on the emerging discourse on spirituality in organizations literature, this study provides a deeper understanding of how dynamic patterns of spirituality operate in organizations. Insights from participant observation, organizational data, and semi-structured interviews yield three key themes of organizational spirituality: reflexivity, connectivity, and responsibility. Each of these themes has been found to be connected to upward spirals (inspiration, engagement, and calling) and downward spirals (incivility, silence, and fatigue). The study provides a detailed and holistic account of the individual and organizational processes through which spirituality is enacted both positively and negatively, exploring its dynamic and dualistic nature, as embodied in the fabric of everyday life and culture

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Spirals of Spirituality: A Qualitative Study Exploring Dynamic Patterns of Spirituality in Turkish Organizations

Karakas

Sarigöllü

2017

J Bus Ethics

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“…In recent times, spiritualism has gained considerable ground in behavioral science research. While many of those studies focused on the relationship between spiritualism and organizational performance, as well as employee's behavior in the workplace, however, positive relationships were obtained (Karakas & Sarigollu, 2019; Lips‐Wiersma & Mills, 2014). Fry (2013) concluded that spiritualism in the workplace has become a new value that opens a better way of studying organizational behavior.…”

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A proposed framework for assessing the influence of internal corporate social responsibility belief on employee intention to job continuity

Sanusi

Johl

2020

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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This study develops a comprehensive conceptual framework and propositions that integrate the concept of internal corporate social responsibility (ICSR) belief with employee intention to job continuity for solving the existing problem of employee's job turnover. A careful examination of existing literature on the construct of ICSR facilitates the necessity for the development of a research framework consisting of several research propositions. An integrated conceptual framework of ICSR belief and employee intention to job continuity was constructed based on the existing conceptualization of corporate social responsibility and ICSR. In addition, this paper proposes a quantitative research method to obtain information about ICSR belief and employee intention to job continuity. Questionnaire instrument will be used to collect data from the employee. The paper also proposes partial least square structural equation modeling for the proposed study analysis. Finally, the conceptual framework provides a logical path for future studies. Theoretically, the effect of ICSR on employee's job engagement was found inconclusive and requires further academic deliberation. In this study, a total number of six propositions were developed to provide an opportunity for informed decision-making that will enhance sustainable performance. The research framework and propositions were developed to cater for the need to improve management and employee relationship in the workplace to build a positive functional work environment that promotes valuable performance. This will also insight the global sustainable initiative pertaining to human resource management. Finally, completion of this study will have implications on local as well as the international labor development.

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“…Hence, in both countries, engaging in religion and spirituality research may be conceived as politically incorrect (in more than one sense). In the UK, positivist research in organizational spirituality and religion has fallen foul of the influential critical management movement (Lips-Wiersma & Mills, 2014) due to the apparent ‘commodification and appropriation of matters spiritual within predominantly capitalist forms of organization’ (Case & Gosling, 2010, p. 258; italics in original). Since from time immemorial academic scholarship is bound to dogma, conditioned by peer pressure and subject to institutional scrutiny, the conservatism, inherent to top tier journals (Altman & Laguecir, 2012) may have enacted a gate-keeping role to deny access to this field’s scholarship.…”

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Spirituality, Symbolism and Storytelling in Twentyfirst-Century Organizations: Understanding and addressing the crisis of imagination

Fotaki

Altman

Koning

2019

Organization Studies

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This article introduces the Special Issue concerned with organizational spirituality, symbolism and storytelling. Stressing the growing scholarly interest in these topics, the article makes a two-fold contribution. First, it critically assesses their development over time while identifying the emerging trends and new ways in which spirituality, symbolism and storytelling are taken up in management and organization studies. We make a case for utilizing their promise to transcend the epistemic boundaries and extend the scope of our academic practice beyond self-referential approaches or ‘fashionable’ topics. Second, it links them to what we term the current crises of imagination, calling into question extant institutional and organizational paradigms, as well as the theoretical frames we rely on in our teaching and research. The multiple crises we face – economic, financial, food, water, energy, climate, migration and security – we suggest, are partly due to the fragmentation of meaning that bedevils our scholarship and, implicitly, the failure of our collective imagination. Reaching across foundational disciplines and core methodologies, we bring into the conversation the interlocking fields of spirituality, symbolism and storytelling, highlighting their potential for addressing the cardinal challenges we face as citizens of this world as much as organizational scholars.

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Understanding the Basic Assumptions About Human Nature in Workplace Spirituality

Cited by 48 publications

References 44 publications

Spirals of Spirituality: A Qualitative Study Exploring Dynamic Patterns of Spirituality in Turkish Organizations

Spirals of Spirituality: A Qualitative Study Exploring Dynamic Patterns of Spirituality in Turkish Organizations

A proposed framework for assessing the influence of internal corporate social responsibility belief on employee intention to job continuity

Spirituality, Symbolism and Storytelling in Twentyfirst-Century Organizations: Understanding and addressing the crisis of imagination

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