Handbook of Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace

1. Front Matter

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2. Basic Issues in Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace: Emerging Research and Practice

      • Judi Neal

      Pages 3-18

   3. EEOC Best Practices Support Best Practices for Spirit and Religion at Work

      • Pat McHenry Sullivan

      Pages 19-31

   4. Spirituality and Religion: Seeking a Juxtaposition That Supports Research in the Field of Faith and Spirituality at Work

      • Kelly Phipps, Margaret Benefiel

      Pages 33-43

3. Faith at Work: Religious Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

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4. Faith at Work – Religious Perspectives

   1. Christian Perspectives on Faith at Work: An Empirical Exploration of Faith and Work Associations Across Christian Religious Traditions

      • Mitchell J. Neubert, Kevin D. Dougherty

      Pages 47-67

   2. Faith at Work (Religious Perspectives): Protestant Accents in Faith and Work

      • David W. Miller, Timothy Ewest

      Pages 69-84

   3. Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace: A Jewish Perspective

      • Alan Lurie

      Pages 85-101

   4. The Islamic Faith: Implications for Business Management

      • Khadija Al Arkoubi

      Pages 103-118

   5. A Bahá’í Perspective on the Nature and Purpose of Work

      • Marjolein Lips-Wiersma

      Pages 119-126

   6. Using the Second-Century Wisdom for a Twenty-First-Century World: The Development of a Life and Liberation Coaching Process for Dispirited Physicians

      • Sara Miller, Geshe Thupten Dorjee

      Pages 127-133

   7. Yogis in the Office: Interviews with Workplace Practitioners

      • Joshua M. Greene

      Pages 135-147

   8. Managing and Leading from a Maori Perspective: Bringing New Life and Energy to Organisations

      • Chellie Spiller, Monica Stockdale

      Pages 149-173

   9. Indigenous Spirituality at Work: Australia

      • Frances Miley, Andrew Read

      Pages 175-194

   10. Pipeline to the Future: Seeking Wisdom in Indigenous, Eastern, and Western Traditions

       • Edwina Pio, Sandra Waddock, Mzamo Mangaliso, Malcolm McIntosh, Chellie Spiller, Hiroshi Takeda et al.

       Pages 195-219

5. Mapping the Terrain:Emerging Theory and Research

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6. Mapping the Terrain: Emerging Theory and Research

   1. Understand It or Destroy It: Why Every Leader Needs to Understand Meaningful Work

      • Marjolein Lips-Wiersma, Lani Morris

      Pages 223-236

   2. The Secret of Leadership Success

      • Mark L. Russell

      Pages 237-254

   3. Wise Leadership in Organizations: Integrating Eastern and Western Paradigms

      • Mark Kriger

      Pages 255-269

While the field of management has developed as a research discipline over the last century, until the early 1990s there was essentially no acknowledgement that the human spirit plays an important role in the workplace.  Over the past twenty years, the tide has begun to turn, as evidenced by the growing number of courses in academia and in corporate training, and an exponential increase in the publications emerging through creative interaction of scholars and practitioners in organizational behaviour, workplace diversity, sustainability, innovation, corporate governance, leadership, and corporate wellness, as well as contributions by psychotherapists, theologians, anthropologists, educators, philosophers, and artists. 

            This Handbook is the most comprehensive collection to date of essays by the preeminent researchers and practitioners in faith and spirituality in the workplace, featuring not only the most current research and case examples, but visions of what will be, or should be, emerging over the horizon.  It includes essays by the people who helped to pioneer the field as well as essays by up and coming young scholars.  Among the questions and issues addressed:

·         What does it mean to be a “spiritual” organization?  How does this perspective challenge traditional approaches to the firm as a purely rational, profit-maximizing enterprise?

·         Is faith and spirituality in the workplace a passing fad, or is there a substantial shift occurring in the business paradigm?

·         How does this field inform emerging management disciplines such as sustainability, diversity, and social responsibility?

·          In what ways are faith and spirituality in the workplace similar to progressive and innovative human resource practices.  Does faith and spirituality in the workplace bring something additional to the conversation, and if so, what?

The aim of The Handbook of Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace is to provide researchers, faculty, students, and practitioners with a broad overview of the field from a research perspective, while keeping an eye on building a bridge between scholarship and practice. 

• Diversity
• Faith
• Leadership
• Management
• Organizational Behavior
• Organizational Culture
• Social Responsibility
• Spirituality
• Sustainability

From the reviews:

Selected by Choice magazine as an "Outstanding Academic Title" for 2013

“Containing essays from 55 contributors from around the world and across academic fields, this work explores the relatively new discipline of workplace spirituality. … The volume concludes with a series of reflections on future directions by pioneers in the field. … this is an important foundational work for a nascent discipline. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections.” (T. M. Mckenzie, Choice, Vol. 50 (11), July, 2013)

• , Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA

  Judi Neal

Judi Neal is the Director of the Tyson Center for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace at the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas. She received her Ph.D. from Yale. She was the Founder of The International Center for Spirit at Work, and the International Spirit at Work Awards. Judi authored Edgewalkers: People and Organizations that Take Risks, Build Bridges and Break New Ground. She helped to co-found the Management, Spirituality and Religion Interest Group at the Academy of Management, and was the group’s second Chair. She is also a co-founder of the Journal of Management, Spirituality, and Religion. She is working on a book titled Creating Enlightened Organizations: Unleashing Full Human Potential at Work and a book titled The Spirit of Project Management with Alan Harpham. She is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Haven, and Academic Director of the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership program at the Graduate Institute.