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Ethics and Spirituality at Work Hopes and Pitfalls of the Search for Meaning in Organizations
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Book Code: Q562
ISBN: 1-56720-562-3
ISBN-13: 978-1-56720-562-6
280 pages, figures, photo, tables
Quorum Books
Publication: 12/30/2002
List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • One of the newest areas of concern to managers today is that of helping employees find deeper meaning and satisfaction in their jobs. This concept builds on the work of Maslow and Kohlberg and extends to a search for ethics and spirituality in the workplace....covers new ground in this developing area of concern to managers. Recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals.
    —Choice
    September 2003
  • Endorsement From Andre L. Delbecq
    Thomas J. & Kathleen L. McCarthy University Professor
    Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University:
    As spirituality busts into our Management literature it is important to discover diverse and wise voices able to thoughtfully examine the intersection between spirituality, ethics and business leadership. This carefully edited collection of essays broadens and informs one of the most important discourses emerging at the opening of our new century.
  • Endorsement From Ian I. Mitroff
    Harold Quinton Distinguished Professor of Business Policy, The Marshall School of Business
    Professor of Journalism, Annenberg School of Communication
    University of Southern California:
    Pauchant has done an admirable, if not an amazing, job in putting together an important book. It deals with a topic that for far too long has been neglected by academicians. The times call out for this intelligent approach to spirituality.
  • Endorsement From Judi Neal, Ph.D.
    Executive Director, Association for Spirit at Work:
    Gets at the heart of what is needed today to create more meaningful workplaces that make a positive difference in the world. We are at a crisis point in our organizations and the only thing that will move us ahead is to embrace the power of ethics and spirituality at work. This book's scholarly underpinnings and practical case studies will inspire you and guide you to take the next steps in your personal and professional calling.
Description: Studies show that nearly 90% of managers and executives in North America alone are seeking ways to integrate ethical and spiritual values into their organizations--while remaining skeptical of New Age thinking, dogmatic religions, cults, and moralizing intolerance. Pauchant's book emerges from a forum on International Management, Ethics, and Spirituality, the first of its kind to be held at an internationally recognized business school, and represents the thinking of six CEOs and six scholars of ethics and spirituality from Australia, Canada, the United States, and Switzerland. With case studies from five organizations in banking, food, health, education, and municipal governance, as well as dialogues culled from the remarks of 200 academic and business practitioners, this book proves that there is a true search for meaning in today's organizations, one which inevitably leads to a search for ethics and spirituality. Managers in search of these desiderata need help. This book suggests that a model proposed by Ken Wilber provides that help. Direct, concrete, theoretically and scientifically rigorous, and with an openness to inter-religious and non-religious viewpoints alike, the book is a compelling, non-didactic contribution to a vital discussion, long-needed but seldom found in a world as governed by economic values as our own.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Ethical and Spiritual Management Addresses the Need for Meaning in the Workplace by Thierry C. Pauchant
  • The Necessities and Challenges of Integrating Ethics and Spirituality in Management
  • Ethics and Values: One of the Six Most Difficult Questions in Management by Jean-Marie Toulouse
  • Spirituality in the Work Place: Management's Next Major Challenge by Ian I. Mitroff
  • The "Belief Crisis" in the Work Place and the Need for a Dialogue on the Meaning of Work by Solange Lefebvre
  • Dialogue on Part One
  • Six Case Studies from Different Industries on the Integration of Ethics and Spirituality into the Management of Organizations
  • Ethics, Spirituality, and the Cooperative Movement in the Banking System by Claude Beland
  • Reconciling Human Happiness and Profitability of the Firm: Mission Possible, Thanks to 16 New Management Tools by J. Robert Ouimet
  • Managing a Public Organization: A Projection of One's Ethical and Spiritual Values by Vera Danyluk
  • The Quality/Performance Challenge of Pastoral Care: Clientele Satisfaction and Efficiency of the Hospital Stay by Yves Benoît
  • Business, Values, and Spirituality: A Case Study of a Business School in Australia by Peter Sheldrake and James Hurley
  • Dialogue on Part Two
  • Perspectives for the Future Integration of Ethics and Spirituality in to the Economy, Management, and Work
  • For a Spiritual Ethic of Work: Some Inspiration from Simone Weil by Thierry C. Pauchant
  • Economic Efficiency, Ethical Foundations, and Spiritual Values in the Management of organizations by Roger Berthouzoz
  • Business Ethics and Spirituality Amongst Jews, Christians, and Muslims by Michel Dion
  • Dialogue on Part Three
  • Conclusion: All Managerial Thought or Action Is Based on a Certain Concept of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty by Thierry C. Pauchant
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2002017940
LCC Class: BL65
Dewey Class: 174
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