Blessed are those who ask the questions : what should we be asking about management, leadership, spirituality, and religion in organizations? / edited by J. Goosby Smith, The Citadel, Erin D. Renslow, The Citadel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goosby Smith, J., editor.

Renslow, Erin D., editor.

Series:

Contemporary Perspectives in Management Spirituality and Religion Series

Contemporary perspectives in management spirituality and religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business--Religious aspects.

Business.

Management--Religious aspects.

Management.

Leadership--Religious aspects.

Leadership.

Religion in the workplace.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 335 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Incorporated, 2021.

Summary:

"Today's organizational environment is characterized by high levels of cross-cultural, cross-national, and cross-religious communication, conflict, collaboration, and commerce. This environment produces myriad encounters between individuals who embrace different ideologies, religions and spiritual practices. As such, unanswered (and even unasked) questions about management, spirituality, and religion abound. This book, seeks to advance our understanding by asking the big questions. Blessed are Those Who Ask the Questions: What Should we be Asking About Management, Spirituality, and Religion in Organizations? is intended to be provocative in nature. Its chapters address novel ways that leadership, organizations, and organizational stakeholders mutually impact each other by their similarities and differences in religious, spiritual, and ideological traditions, cultures, and practices. Interdisciplinary in nature and firmly grounded in scholarly literature, this book identifies and maps out bold new trajectories for advancing the study of management spirituality, and religion (including but going far beyond Western, Christian conceptualizations of religion). Sometimes universal, sometimes quite specific, this volume identifies unexplored, underexplored, or unresolved issues in the field and proposes new streams of research. Diverse conceptual, empirical, theoretical, and critical treatments that honor a variety of inquiry styles and research methods push the boundaries of MSR research"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Is God greater than tenure? / Quintus R. Jett

Can work be redeemed through play? (Or why is playing not an option) / Raymond Carr

Is the spirit "missing" in the discourse of management, spirituality, and religion / Shoaib Ul-Haq

Inspiring inclusion : What is the evidence supporting AI? faith-based approach to leadership development? / Valerie L. Myers

What happens when classical Hollywood narrative and American mythos converge? / Joi Carr

Should transformational leadership theory include an ethics component? Insights from the cupbearer to the king / Tom Clark

What are the biblical roots of servant leadership / Michael J. Mlynarczyk

The strategy of spirituality : how best can spiritual leadership and spirituality at work support and sustain organizational strategy? A Christian perspective / Richard Peters and Joe Ricks

Motivation or justification : how is religiosity used in the decision to engage in environmental sustainability practices? / Shalei V.K. Simms and Dorothy M. Kirkmane

Is today's focus on innovation enticing global managers away from religious and spiritual principles? / Matthew Guah

(What's) The matter with Babel? / Daniel Q. Vass-Goosby

Religious and wealthy : can one be both? / Miles K. Davis and Clifford F. Thies

How can an understanding of and acknowledgment of the effects of sin and evil inform solutions to organizational and societal problems? / Larry G. Daniel

How can the newest global religion

the Baha'i Faith

impact the future of business? / Payam Zamani

"Nuns" to nones? Revisiting management, spirituality, and religion in the workplace for the new generation / Latha Poonamallee

About the contributors.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

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Other Format:

Print version: Blessed are those who ask the questions

ISBN:

9781648024320

1648024327

OCLC:

1245957323