Making Sense of Workplace Spirituality: Towards a New Methodology

McKee, Margaret C.; Mills, Jean Helms; Driscoll, Cathy

doi:10.1080/14766080809518699

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“…Although there is little consensus over the meaning of workplace spirituality (McKee et al 2008), it has been associated with a number of key dimensions such as meaning, purpose, and a sense of community and connection to others (Ashmos and Duchon 2000). Other definitions have included the experience of transcendence, inner life, and feelings of completeness and joy (Jurkiewicz and Giacalone 2004;Duchon and Plowman 2005).…”

Section: Workplace Spiritualitymentioning

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Workplace spirituality and employee engagement

Saks

2011

Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion

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Interest in workplace spirituality and employee engagement has increased considerably over the last decade among practitioners and scholars. However, even though both topics focus on the importance of the spirit at work, they have emerged independent of each other with little attention to how they are related. In this paper, I describe how workplace spirituality and employee engagement are related and the implications of workplace spirituality for employee engagement. In particular, I describe the importance of workplace spirituality for meaningfulness at work and for engagement maintenance and generalization. A model of workplace spirituality and employee engagement is presented in which three dimensions of workplace spirituality (transcendence, community, and spiritual values) relate to employee engagement through four psychological conditions (meaningfulness in work, meaningfulness at work, safety, and availability). The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of the model for research and practice on workplace spirituality and employee engagement.

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Section: Workplace Spiritualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Workplace spirituality and employee engagement

Saks

2011

Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion

194

147

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“…Furthermore, Weick (2001) warns that in such intrinsic approaches that there is the possibility of 'seeing in a way that is not seeing ' (p. xi). This means the approach may not explore the excluded voices (McKee et al, 2008). Clearly, more case study and qualitative work is necessary.…”

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The ‘tapestry’ of bricolage: Extending interdisciplinary approaches to psycho-spiritual self-care research

Devenish-Meares

2020

Methodological Innovations

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Interdisciplinary psycho-spiritual research into workplace stress and self-care is scant noting the fact that negative self-talk and harsh self-judgement stymie the search for inner meaning and self-care. To address this, this article uses an intuitive and reflection-oriented methodology to research self-care choices for the stressed and suffering worker. In particular, it breaks new ground because no workplace-based applied psycho-spiritual research uses bricolage, let alone the heuristic inquiry process which gives expression to it. Bricolage is a tapestry of ideas, themes and possibilities cobbled together to produce creative outcomes. It adapts and co-opts whatever information from whichever discipline that is necessary. This approach appears well suited to the subjective, intuitive nature of workplace stress and suffering and especially where interdisciplinary approaches to self-care are warranted. The heuristic inquiry process which is used for the first time for workplace self-care works intentionally with interior resources that may be unknown or fragmented and dialogues sensitively with inner ‘rules’ or patterns that may have become problematic. Incubation and reflective illumination produce tacit knowledge to augment healing intuition. This process is illustrated by an example. It is about a less intense focus that actively encourages tender, ‘standing apart’ from symptoms so as to allow perspectives to arise and the intuiting of transformative possibilities. From this, self-compassion, humility and meaningful detachment are re-affirmed as ways to pay self-kindly attention and address self-criticism and self-blame. The contribution of the study is threefold. First, it extends bricolage to workplace self-care by considering inner resistance and negative self-talk, both barriers to self-care. Second, it affirms the heuristic inquiry process as an intuitive method for self-care research. Third, and paradoxically, it shows that self-engagement, in a compassionate yet less intense way, can lead to self-care transformation. Finally, limitations to the study and possibilities for future research are discussed.

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“…The interest in the study of spirituality in the workplace has grown significantly over the past decade; however, it is a relatively new area in the field of organizational theory (McKee, Mills, & Driscoll, 2008). Spirituality in the workplace is generally concerned with inner self, meaningful work, sense of community, transcendence, feelings of completeness, an interrelatedness of everything, and a striving towards wholeness (Ashmos & Duchon, 2000;Duchon & Plowman, 2005;Jurkiewicz & Giacalone, 2004;Milliman, Czaplewski, & Ferguson, 2003;Rozuel & Kakabadse, 2010).…”

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The use of mindfulness to promote ethical decision making and behavior: Empirical evidence from the public sector in Thailand

Sutamchai

Rowlands

Rees

2019

Public Admin & Development

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Summary The study has two main purposes. First, the study explores core ethical values and behaviors from the perspective of Thai public service organizational leaders. Second, the study investigates the extent to which public sector leaders in Thailand consider Buddhist‐based mindfulness practice to be a potentially effective mechanism for reinforcing core ethical values and behaviors in the public sector in Thailand. Using interview data derived from in‐depth semi‐structured interviews with 12 senior public sector officials in Thailand, the analysis elicits four dimensions of core ethical values and behaviors that are perceived by Thai public service organizational leaders as central to ethical behavior in the public sector. The study also sheds light on the interviewees' positive perceptions towards mindfulness and the role its associated practices can play in promoting ethical decision making and behavior in the public sector in Thailand.

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Making Sense of Workplace Spirituality: Towards a New Methodology

Cited by 27 publications

References 37 publications

Workplace spirituality and employee engagement

Workplace spirituality and employee engagement

The ‘tapestry’ of bricolage: Extending interdisciplinary approaches to psycho-spiritual self-care research

The use of mindfulness to promote ethical decision making and behavior: Empirical evidence from the public sector in Thailand

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