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In July 2001, I made a presentation at the “Spirituality in Management” workshop in Szeged, Hungary, the first such organized academic activity in Europe that focused on the relationship between spirituality and management. My presentation there was inspired by my close teamwork over the preceding five years with Professor Shitangshu Kumar Chakraborty (1941–2018), the founder of the Management Centre for Human Values, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC). Based on a suggestion by the editors of this book, this article is an updated version of the article that was a result of my 2001 presentation: “Spirituality as the Context for Leadership” (Pruzan, 2004).
The paper is based on the author’s previous publication, Peter Pruzan: “Spirituality as the Context for Leadership” in Laszlo Zsolnai (Ed.): Spirituality and Ethics in Management, Kluwer, London, 2004, 15–31; (2nd edition, Springer, Dordrecht, Germany, 2011, pp. 3–22). Also, some paragraphs are used from the author’s book Rational, Ethical and Spiritual Perspectives on Leadership: Selected Writings. (2009. Peter Lang Academic Publisher, Oxford)
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Pruzan, P. (2022). Reflections on “Spirituality as the Context for Leadership”. In: Mukherjee, S., Zsolnai, L. (eds) Global Perspectives on Indian Spirituality and Management . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1158-3_16
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