2003
DOI: 10.1177/1350508403010002012
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Irreconcilable Foes? The Discourse of Spirituality and the Discourse of Organizational Science

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“…This development, that is the proliferation of interest in workplace spirituality as an inquiry field, can be mainly explained by and attributed to the expected positive impact of workplace spirituality to organisational reality (Benefiel, 2003;Brown, 2003;Neal and Biberman, 2004) through its positive effect to both management processes (Boozer, 1998;Lewis and Geroy, 2000;McCormick, 1994;Steingard, 2005) and to leadership practices (Fairholm, 1996;Fry, 2003;Hicks, 2002;Korac-Kakabadse et al, 2002;Reave, 2005). To be more specific, it is generally anticipated that workplace spirituality is positively associated with desirable organisational outcomes both at the qualitative and the quantitative level (Heaton et al, 2004;King and Crowther, 2004).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…This development, that is the proliferation of interest in workplace spirituality as an inquiry field, can be mainly explained by and attributed to the expected positive impact of workplace spirituality to organisational reality (Benefiel, 2003;Brown, 2003;Neal and Biberman, 2004) through its positive effect to both management processes (Boozer, 1998;Lewis and Geroy, 2000;McCormick, 1994;Steingard, 2005) and to leadership practices (Fairholm, 1996;Fry, 2003;Hicks, 2002;Korac-Kakabadse et al, 2002;Reave, 2005). To be more specific, it is generally anticipated that workplace spirituality is positively associated with desirable organisational outcomes both at the qualitative and the quantitative level (Heaton et al, 2004;King and Crowther, 2004).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…Unfortunately, this religious influence on organizational behaviour is far from easy to recognize, as are the implications of this Christian tradition for the concepts and ideas of organizations (Benefiel, 2003). This is a very important consideration for a critical view of organizational practices (Ashforth & Vaidyanath, 2002).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Because it was, religion had a considerable effect on modernization, above all in creating the conditions for new attitudes about work and capital accumulation, new social roles and increasing social mobility, growing individualism and the emergence of cities and nation-states (Bruce, 2010). Thus, although the corporate world is characterized by secularization, it is also true that the principles of religious thought can often be found in for-profit organizations (Ashforth & Vaidyanath, 2002), in the sense that, through the influence of the European religious tradition in the Americas resulting from centuries of Christian colonization, these Christian values and ideas are deeply embedded in organizational practices (Benefiel, 2003;Porterfield & Corrigan, 2010). According to this analytical framework, the theological roots of organizational concepts -like mission, for example -are not always self-evident, but they may be inferred through the interpretation of social, economic, political and cultural roots.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Previous research reported that workplace spirituality was associated with positive benefits for both employees and organizations. On the organization side, workplace spirituality showed positive outcomes related to productivity (Sass, 2000), profits and morale (Benefiel, 2003), retention and commitment to the organizational vision (Duchon & Plowman, 2005;Karakas, 2010), customer experience (Pandey et al, 2009), ethical values (Pawar, 2009), productive cultures (Giacalone & Jurkiewicz, 2010), and job performance and employee attitudes (Jurkiewicz & Giacalone, 2004;Milliman, et al, 2003). For employees, reported benefits included increased joy, peace, serenity, and job satisfaction (Giacalone & Jurkiewicz, 2010); enhanced creativity, honesty, trust, personal fulfillment, and commitment (Krishnakumar & Neck, 2002); and reduced friction and frustration at work (Kolodinsky et al, 2008).…”
Section: Summary Of the Studymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Critics of workplace spirituality did not claim that it is inappropriate per se, but warned about the ways it could be misused or manipulated, particularly for organizational control (Bell & Taylor, 2004;Boje, 2008) and instrumental gain (Benefiel, 2003;Lips-Wiersma & Nilakant, 2008;Steingard, 2005). Gull and Doh (2004) warned that implementing spirituality in the workplace with the sole purpose of realizing greater competitive advantage, higher and more efficient levels of productivity and greater profit might translate to benefits in the short term, but it would be dishonoring to humankind and counterproductive to the unfolding of spirit.…”
Section: Workplace Spiritualitymentioning
confidence: 99%