Leadership and Spirituality

Satinder Dhiman ()
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Satinder Dhiman: Woodbury University

Chapter 8 in Leadership Today, 2017, pp 139-160 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter underscores the importance of spirituality in the workplace and its role in leading organizations. It focuses specifically on contributing to readers’ awareness about the vital difference between religion and spirituality. The chapter builds on the premise that fundamental problems facing our organizations and the society today can only be solved at the level of human spirit. The material paradigm is not suited to deal with germane problems that shape our today’s world (Vasconcelos A.F.. Cadernos EBAPE.BR 13.1, pp. 183–205). The chapter further postulates that the real spirituality is not indifference to the world but love and compassion born out of identifying oneself with all beings. It presents Gandhi as an exemplary spiritual leader who stirred the conscience of humanity by demonstrating the power of spirit over material things and extended the gospel of love and peace from personal level to the social arena. It also draws upon the vision of the Vedānta philosophy of unity of all existence as unfolded in the Bhagavad Gītā.

Keywords: Transformational Leader; Positive Psychology; Servant Leadership; Spiritual Workplace; Spiritual Leadership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-31036-7_8

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