Ethical Mindsets: An Australian Study

Issa, Theodora; Pick, David

doi:10.1007/s10551-010-0487-0

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“…Thematic analysis has been used in a variety of studies exploring SWP (see e.g. M Fernando & Jackson, 2006;Issa & Pick, 2010;Karakas, 2010a). This research took an inductive thematic approach since it fits nicely with the interpretivist nature of this research, allows meaningful conceptualisations to emerge from the data and helps generate new theories rather than just verifying existing ones (Chell, 2004) which is a key aspect of critical realism (Danermark et al, 1997).…”

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The influence of managers’ spiritual mindfulness on ethical behaviour in organisations

McGhee¹,

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2015

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Recently, there have been several corporate scandals both in New Zealand and overseas involving unethical management behaviour that caused significant harm to a range of stakeholders. The literature on spirituality and mindfulness posits that each could enhance ethical praxis and management conduct if they were encouraged in organisations. To date, minimal work has been completed bringing these related constructs together and demonstrating how and why they might influence ethical decision-making and behaviour positively. This paper attempts such a combination. As part of a larger study, 14 managers from a variety of organisations were interviewed to determine how their spirituality influenced their ethical behaviour in the workplace. Using stories of real-life critical incidents and thematic analysis, this research found that managers bring a spiritual consciousness that is mindful of themselves, others and their context to their decisions and actions in complex and challenging ethical situations. Moreover, while these managers' spiritual mindfulness was cognisant of the immediate present, they also transcend their environments in ways that often led to enhanced moral praxis and conduct. Conversely, situations in which they failed to be spiritually mindful resulted in feelings of frustration, anxiety and loss. Based on these findings, a model of how spirituality and mindfulness might relate to produce ethical behaviour in organisations is provided. The paper concludes by offering suggestions for future research.

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The influence of managers’ spiritual mindfulness on ethical behaviour in organisations

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2015

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“…While thematic analysis is common within the SAW literature (see e.g. Fernando and Jackson, 2006, Issa and Pick, 2010, Kinjerski and Skrypnek, 2004, a critical realist approach differs in that it begins by inductively coding for 'demi-regularities' or tendencies, not deterministic regularity or causal laws (Fletcher, 2016). These tendencies can be seen in basic patterns or themes within the empirical data.…”

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Applying critical realism in spirituality at work research

McGhee

Grant

2017

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. Design/methodology/approach: CR is a philosophical meta-theory that allows the stratification of spirituality into different levels of reality, advocates for research methods matching the ontology of the level investigated, and provides complementary methods of exploring this phenomenon's causal power in social contexts. The authors present a study where CR was used to explain how and why SAW influences ethics in organizational contexts. Findings:The results demonstrate that CR provides a useful approach to bridging the positivist-interpretivist difference in SAW research. Moreover, a CR approach helped explain the underlying conditions and causal mechanisms that power SAW to influence ethical decision-making and behavior in the workplace. Originality/value: While CR has been applied in management literature, negligible SAW material has utilized this approach. That which does exist is either conceptual or does not explicitly discuss their methods of data analysis or describe how CR concepts resulted in their findings. This paper addresses that lacuna. CR also provides value, as an alternative approach to SAW research, in that it allows the use of both quantitative and qualitative methods as complementary, not confrontational, approaches to the study of SAW while providing a more integrated and deeper view of SAW and its effects. Opposing this view are those that argue for interpretivist approaches (Lips-Wiersma, 2003, Neal et al., 1999. For instance, Fornaciari and Dean (2001) argue that scientific knowledge is a partial truth, a truth that ignores inner meaning. They "challenge the dominance of the positivist paradigm in spirituality in organizations research, pointing out the absurdity of trying to factor analyse God" (p. 35).Unfortunately, SAW is not easy to classify and can be problematic to measure. How we express spirituality tends to be value-laden and inherently personal. Unfortunately, human beings are complex non-rational and emotional creatures who tend to defy the neat, behaviourist definitions offered by the positivist model. As Lips-Wiersma (2003) argues, not only is one's expression of spirituality intensely unique to each individual, any inquiry into its nature or effe...

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“…Moreover, spirituality was found to be a determinant factor in a person's understanding and interpretation of ethical behavior, as many spiritual practices draw on prominent ethical theories and moral principles (Garcia-Zamor, 2003). The mediation of ethical leadership in the association between workplace spirituality and work intentions had not been previously investigated, however, previous research indicated that workplace spirituality was found to be related to ethical mindsets (Issa & Pick, 2010) and the potential for ethical behavior (Beekun & Westerman, 2012 Further investigation of the association between workplace spirituality and work intentions, and how a leader's ethical behavior influences employees' experience in the workplace is worthy of further inquiry. Ethical leadership is uniquely significant because of the impact leaders may have on the conduct of others within the organization and ultimately, organizational performance (Aronson, 2001;Kanungo, 2001;Trevino, Brown, & Hartman, 2003).…”

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“…The relationship between workplace spirituality and ethical leadership had been substantiated in theory (Brown & Treviño, 2006;Corner, 2009;Giacalone & Jurkiewicz 2003;Issa & Pick, 2010), however empirical studies thus far have been limited and mostly examined through the lenses of work values, exemplified by qualities such as benevolence (Adams, Balfour, & Reed, 2006), integrity (George, Ellison, & Larson, 2002;Kouzes & Posner 1995), justice, utilitarianism, and relativism (Beekun & Westerman, 2012). Nonetheless, the relationship between workplace spirituality and ethical leadership remains woefully underexplored.…”

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Workplace spirituality and employee work intentions : examining the relationship and the mediating role of ethical leadership.

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Ethical Mindsets: An Australian Study

Abstract: aesthetic judgment, mindsets, mixed-methods, spirituality,

Cited by 40 publications

References 68 publications

The influence of managers’ spiritual mindfulness on ethical behaviour in organisations

The influence of managers’ spiritual mindfulness on ethical behaviour in organisations

Applying critical realism in spirituality at work research

Workplace spirituality and employee work intentions : examining the relationship and the mediating role of ethical leadership.

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