Maintaining ‘Respect for Spirituality’ in a Secular Work Environment: A Biographical Account of the Career-Life Journey of a Black Female Practitioner of Declared Faith

Doirean Wilson ()
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Doirean Wilson: Middlesex University Business School London

A chapter in Managing VUCA Through Integrative Self-Management, 2017, pp 81-106 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Today’s global environment bears the mark of the beast namely, Volatility Uncertainty Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA). Hence why changes are occurring in the working lives of leaders and employees who now seek to integrate their spiritualityspirituality at work. Perhaps this is due to society’s need for spiritual solutions to better respond to the turbulence triggered by the VUCA climate that has instigated societal, geopolitical and business changes; as a means to enable them to cope and survive. This argues why interest in spirituality, a term viewed as nebulous and with skepticism, is omnipresent and growing. Spirituality discourses span many issues, yet limited written works exist that explore it from an intersectionalityintersectionality perspective, regarding teaching spirituality in management programs or within businesses. A gap in knowledge of how spirituality impacts on the careers of e.g., women leaderswomen leaders of faith in secularsecular work environments exists. This makes it difficult to ascertain how spirituality manifests in the management practice of such leaders. Furthermore, there is no substantive evidence to show that this issue is explored from the viewpoint of black-female-leaders’ who become of faith while in masculine secular environments. This chapter aims to plug these gaps by reviewing the intersectionality of discrimination regarding the sales career-life-journey of Reverend Jessica MeadeReverend Jessica Meade .

Keywords: Spiritual Belief; Narrative Analysis; Multiple Identity; Female Leader; Teaching Spirituality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-52231-9_6

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