{"title":"Sin and Missing the Mark in Management: A Lukan Perspective","authors":"Bruno Dyck","doi":"10.51327/jwqv3442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51327/jwqv3442","url":null,"abstract":"This paper draws on biblical writings to contribute to our understanding of sin, a catchphrase commonly used in everyday discourse and the scholarly literature with little reference to its underlying meaning. A biblical understanding of “sin” draws attention to whether behaviors are consistent with religious teachings and/or with the will of God. This study develops a Lukan understanding of sin and management—grounded in the socio-economic context in which the biblical text was written—that calls for the development of management theory and practices that liberate relationships (rather than promote patron-client relationships), de-marginalize the poor and oppressed (rather than widen gaps between rich and poor), promote positive deviance (rather than stigmatize diversity), provide fresh ways of thinking (rather than perpetuate the status quo), and facilitate connection to the spiritual (rather than reject spirituality). The conclusion describes practical examples and implications associated with the Lukan approach.","PeriodicalId":46503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management Spirituality & Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73336262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anil Maheshwari, M. Werd, F. Travis, M. Rainforth, Jonathan B. Lipman
{"title":"Workplace Well-being: An Experimental Investigation into Benefits of Consciousness-based Architecture","authors":"Anil Maheshwari, M. Werd, F. Travis, M. Rainforth, Jonathan B. Lipman","doi":"10.51327/kyon6624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51327/kyon6624","url":null,"abstract":"Consciousness is primary and unbounded and can be accessed through multiple modalities, including the qualities of the workplace environment. This research explored the proposition that a consciousness-based architecture could improve workplace well-being. It experimentally investigated the potential benefits of Maharishi Vastu Architecture® (MVA) in a business setting. MVA buildings deal with wholeness and the establishment of the parts in relation to the whole. They have a strict East-West directional orientation, and strict proportion and placement of its center and rooms, among other features. A technical consulting company relocated their offices from a conventional building into one designed according to the principles of MVA. All the available employees of the company were tested one month before and one month after the move to the MVA building using a Workplace Well-being Index specifically created for this research. Data analysis comparing the pre and post measurements showed a 8% improvement (p<0.05) in subjective well-being upon relocating to the MVA building. Organizations can thus enhance workforce well-being through holistic workplaces designed for development of consciousness.","PeriodicalId":46503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management Spirituality & Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76182127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prospective Theorizing: Researching for Social Impact","authors":"C. Laszlo","doi":"10.51327/obnx5448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51327/obnx5448","url":null,"abstract":"Prospection—defined here as the mental representation and evaluation of possible futures—offers scholars a powerful new approach to researching with social impact. In this paper, we begin by reviewing the strengths and limitations of the kind of theory building long favored by the Academy. We do so to understand why management scholarship is perceived as falling short in terms of its relevance and social impact. We invite management scholars to re-examine what determines a theory’s assessed value in the face of social and global challenges distinguished by emergent complexity (Funtowicz & Ravetz 1994; Scharmer & Käufer, 2010). The advantages of prospective theorizing are presented in two variants: projective and envisioned. The first embraces prospection within the current bounds and editorial practices of the Academy. When viewed through a quantum lens, the second proposes a radically new approach to theory building. It contends that quantum science is giving powerful impetus and renewed legitimacy to the idea that prospective theorizing calls forth a reality rather than objectively studying a world “out there”. Such theorizing is not only about advancing knowledge about what exists. In a very real sense, it has agency to create the future it studies. We conclude with an inquiry into what it means for management research aimed at tackling wicked problems such as climate change and social justice.","PeriodicalId":46503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management Spirituality & Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84344857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Window of Our Own: Towards a Quantum Research Ontology","authors":"J. Storberg-Walker","doi":"10.51327/bqlc1209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51327/bqlc1209","url":null,"abstract":"This article introduces the idea of quantum research as a way of approaching inquiry in spiritual/intuitive domains. This form of research combines scholarly and analytical knowledge with non-rational, non-analytical experiencing variously called direct/intuitive experiences (Tsao and Laszlo, 2019) or holistic consciousness (Goethe, in Bortoft, 1996). The article is written differently (Vachhani, 2019), and combines quantum theorizing with findings from an empirical postmodern text deconstruction study. The theorizing and empirical findings illuminate the beliefs, values, and norms of the Newtonian paradigm that continue to marginalize a quantum ontological perspective. Through a bricolage (Rogers, 2012) of interdisciplinary literature combined with findings from the postmodern (Beiser, 2011) deconstruction/imaginal study, the incommensurability between the Newtonian paradigm and quantum ontology is exposed. The bricolage illuminates the challenges and opportunities for legitimizing a quantum view of research. The article concludes with recommendations for future quantum research; for building a new window of our own.","PeriodicalId":46503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management Spirituality & Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78496377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Science of Life and Wellbeing: Integrating the New Science of Consciousness with the Ancient Science of Consciousness","authors":"Frederick Tsao","doi":"10.51327/tfoj1047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51327/tfoj1047","url":null,"abstract":"Humanity is in the midst of a major shift. To tackle the many challenges that face us, we will need a collective shift in consciousness — a shift from a worldview of separateness to a worldview of interconnectedness. This essay explores the interweaving of quantum science and ancient Chinese culture and examines how these two paradigms provide us a sense of how we are collectively evolving to higher levels of consciousness. A vision of this new era is described in detail, including how culture, models, values, economic structures, the systems of environmental restoration, education, healthcare, and food production will all change, creating a new way of living. The leaders who can help manifest this vision are called Quantum Leaders, and they must first experience their own shift in consciousness in order to lead this societal transformation.","PeriodicalId":46503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management Spirituality & Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77397798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Twelve Principles to Guide a Long-Overdue Paradigm Shift","authors":"I. Rimanoczy, A. M. Llamazares","doi":"10.51327/jkki4753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51327/jkki4753","url":null,"abstract":"If human behaviors are associated with climate change, it relates to how we consume, entertain, travel, do business, relate to “natural resources”, to ourselves and to each other. The authors posit that human behaviors are but the visible tip of the iceberg, sustained underwater by a voluminous mass comprised of our values, beliefs, assumptions, the anchors of our identity and shared paradigms. They trace back the history of a shared paradigm that has become dysfunctional and introduce the Sustainability Mindset Principles - a scaffolding to address the complexity of the paradigm. This paper describes how the dysfunctional paradigm can be brought back into balance by developing neglected aspects of a Western-Northern worldview that has been shaping our behaviors for centuries. By naming these aspects, the authors propose a language to incite the readers’ imagination of what is possible. Naming creates reality.","PeriodicalId":46503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management Spirituality & Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74595501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
adeel ahmed, Ghulam Jan, W. Barkat, R. Ahmed, A. Mahmood
{"title":"The Impact of Spirituality on Resilience and Engagement During the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"adeel ahmed, Ghulam Jan, W. Barkat, R. Ahmed, A. Mahmood","doi":"10.51327/naeu8792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51327/naeu8792","url":null,"abstract":"This study focused on frontline healthcare workers’ engagement level, since they are confronting multiple challenges during the COVID-19 outbreak. It was significant to study how spirituality breeds resilience and engagement in prevailing critical scenarios. The study also investigates the significant role of psychosocial safety climate (PSC). A cross-sectional online survey of 233 healthcare professionals was collected in Pakistan. By using partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM), this study tests the research hypotheses. The findings suggest that spirituality plays an essential role in effecting resilience and engagement of healthcare workers. The resilience, in fact, mediates the effect of spirituality on work engagement. In addition, PSC proved to be a strong moderator in the relationship of spirituality and resilience. Implications and future recommendations are discussed.","PeriodicalId":46503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management Spirituality & Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83068467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"African Indigenous Knowledge and Practices to Combat Covid-19 Pandemic","authors":"M. Gumbo, M. Gaotlhobogwe","doi":"10.51327/edta1013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51327/edta1013","url":null,"abstract":"Indigenous knowledge and practices suffer marginalisation when it comes to seeking solutions to social problems. The world misses out on the richness of this knowledge and practices and role that they can play. This qualitative existential phenomenological study explored experiences of African indigenous knowledge holders and practitioners on their views regarding solutions towards COVID-19 pandemic. Interviews were conducted through WhatsApp and face-to-face with ten participants and data were analysed thematically. The findings show African knowledge and practices that could combat COVID-19 in terms of restrictions, heat related remedies and plant related remedies, and how these knowledge and practices can be applied through ancestral, environmental, metaphysical and generational modes. Africa and the world could benefit from how indigenous people respond to diseases such as COVID-19 and adopt/adapt some of these knowledge and practices; indigenous knowledge and practices have a role to play by contributing solutions to the world’s problems.","PeriodicalId":46503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management Spirituality & Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83935431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Humane Organizing in a Post-COVID-19 World: Learning from Buurtzorg’s Trust-Based Decentralization","authors":"S. Nandram","doi":"10.51327/mxfl6361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51327/mxfl6361","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the enablers and consequences of less hierarchical organizing in which humane values are in focus as a path toward spirituality in the workplace. It describes Buurtzorg Nederland, a revolutionary case in home health care due to its radically decentralized structure and integrative, autonomous system of organizing. Data were collected by studying the responses of directors and nurses to the COVID-19 pandemic. A formative grounded theory methodology based on theoretical sampling using two additional qualitative data sets is used. The paper demonstrates that the simplification of organizational structures through integrative self-management helps to put the organization’s purpose at the center. Even in times of COVID-19 pandemic, this decentralized organizational architecture is empowering. The core concept of integrating simplification is elaborated using the enablers of serving, attuning, and trusting, wherein the concept of trust emerges as foundational.","PeriodicalId":46503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management Spirituality & Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84633287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Harmony and Tension in Integrating Indigenous Responses to COVID-19 in Uganda","authors":"Jino O. Mwaka, E. Ochola","doi":"10.51327/ihhq8367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51327/ihhq8367","url":null,"abstract":"Coronavirus poses a global health challenge. Amidst uncertainties associated with the pandemic, effective response requires multiple stakeholder involvement. The performance of ryemo gemo, an indigenous epidemic control measure among the Acholi in Uganda as part of the response to COVID-19 evoked responses that highlighted both harmony and tension in integrating a traditional response in the national efforts. We review the directives, the cultural context of the practice of ryemo gemo and reactions it evoked on social and print media, and discuss points of convergence and divergence in integrating the traditional practice, and compounding factors of tension. The complexity of the social challenges, the lack of shared worldview in regards to the indigenous measure, cultural disconnect and lack of clear impact assessment underlie the tension. The power of indigenous measures for sensitization and mobilization can be harnessed in the COVID-19 fight by strengthening appropriate behavioral outputs consistent with the pandemic control.","PeriodicalId":46503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management Spirituality & Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82813015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}