Shaping Theory and Practice: The Impact of Ignatius of Loyola’s Approach to Transformation on Transformational Leadership and Online Graduate Students at a Jesuit University in the United States

Dung Q. Tran () and Michael R. Carey ()
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Dung Q. Tran: Gonzaga University
Michael R. Carey: Gonzaga University

Humanistic Management Journal, 2023, vol. 8, issue 2, No 5, 200 pages

Abstract: Abstract Building on a previous piece that harnessed both the handbook that Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1548/1991) authored to guide his work – the Spiritual Exercises – and the account of his own transformation experience captured in the Autobiography – to appropriate the dynamics of Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises into a series of life-affirming questions and delineate his transformation into four phases (Carey and Tran 2023), this essay continues our exploratory inquiry. Following a brief overview of the contemporary organizational leadership context, our article positions Ignatius’ insights on transformation within the transformational leadership discourse and considers his contribution to the professional formation of business leaders. Our study concludes with qualitative examples of how insights from St. Ignatius’ conversion process has encouraged online graduate students of organizational leadership in their quest to transition from profession to purpose. To further fuse theory and practice, the student reflections are categorized according to the Ignatian-inspired questions that inaugurated our theoretical inquiry and guides our pedagogical practice as organizational leadership educators.

Keywords: Ignatius of Loyola; Jesuit higher education; Transforming leadership; Transformational leadership; Ignatian leadership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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