Mapping the terrain of spirituality in organizations research

Benefiel, Margaret

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“…Workplace spirituality is also found to have a positive influence on affective commitment among nurses and nurses' performance outcomes (Kazemipour, Mohamad Amin & Pourseidi 2012). Other studies demonstrating that workplace spirituality contributes to commitment and organizational performance include Milliman et al (1999);Benefiel (2003); Sanders, Hopkins and Geroy (2003); Garcia-Zamor (2003);and Rego et al (2007).…”

Section: Spirituality In the Workplace Organizationalmentioning

confidence: 94%

Workplace Spirituality and Organizational Commitment Influence on Job Performance among Academic Staff

Campbell¹,

Hwa²

2014

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Section: Spirituality In the Workplace Organizationalmentioning

confidence: 94%

Workplace Spirituality and Organizational Commitment Influence on Job Performance among Academic Staff

Campbell¹,

Hwa²

2014

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“…We hope to demonstrate that this generalized interest was well founded and that humanistic study, such as textual study of the Zhuangzi, helps to heal "the rift between the 5 discourse of spirituality and the discourse of organizational science" (Benefiel, 2003, p. 372). It also gives us a method for capturing the richness of human motivation that lies outside of the traditional qualitative and quantitative methods for studying human behavior (Benefiel, 2003;Fornaciari and Lund Dean, 2001). …”

Section: Spirituality and Businessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Artisans, Athletes, Entrepreneurs, and other Skilled Exemplars of the Way [1]

Stewart

Lee

Konz

2008

Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion

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We introduce management and spirituality scholars to the “knack” passages from the c. 4th century B.C.E. text, the Zhuangzi [Inline graphic]. The knack passages are parables about low status figures, such as wheelwrights, furniture makers and cooks, whose actions offer insights into the spirituality of ordinary work and, we argue, of entrepreneurship. Such non-corporate settings are lesser-studied domains for spirituality. Ancient Chinese writings have been noticed by spirituality and management writers but we call for deeper scholarly textual attention. We seek also to model more attention to the renaissance in scholarship on classical China. More ambitiously, we hope to show that these passages are not only germane but worthy of careful consideration. Our efforts reflect the influence of Slingerland's (2003) study of “effortless action” as a central soteriological goal in ancient China.

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“…Mixed methodologies may not be the answer since they often tend to wallpaper over (usually for pragmatic reasons) this difference (Danermark et al, 1997) although recent work by authors such as Zachariadis et al (2013) seeks to resolve this problem. As Benefiel (2003b) has noted, the rising popularity of SAW suggests there is a need for more integrative methodologies and approaches that take this into account.…”

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confidence: 99%

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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Mapping the terrain of spirituality in organizations research

Cited by 110 publications

References 10 publications

Workplace Spirituality and Organizational Commitment Influence on Job Performance among Academic Staff

Workplace Spirituality and Organizational Commitment Influence on Job Performance among Academic Staff

Artisans, Athletes, Entrepreneurs, and other Skilled Exemplars of the Way [1]

Applying critical realism in spirituality at work research

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