Workplace Spirituality: A Complete Guide for Business Leaders ^{©
Copyright 2006 By Nancy R. Smith}

"The first book that presents workplace spirituality as personally meaningful and spiritually diverse while emphasizing the essentials of business ethics and corporate social responsibility in a global world."

—Book Description

his first title in the Workplace Spirituality series consists of four parts:
 

Part I: Why Workplace Spirituality and Why Now?

Part I consists of three chapters. It begins with definitions that clarify the difference between spirituality and religion, provides an overview of the workplace spirituality movement, and discusses our concepts of work itself. The chapters are:

1. What IS Workplace Spirituality? 

2. Highlights of the Movement

3. The Purpose of Work in Human Life

Part II:  Your Spirituality in Your Workplace

Part II personalizes the topic through a deeper discussion of spirituality in the workplace in contrast with “faith at work,” the risks of “junk-food spirituality,” the essential traits of a spiritual person and the specific on-the-job behaviors that result from each trait. The chapters are:

4. The Role of Spirituality at Work

5. Seven Essential Traits of a Spiritual Person

6. Spiritual Behaviors on the Job

Part III: The Ethics of Working It All Out

Part III discusses the indispensable elements of an ethical business; presents the current understandings of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the debates about its importance; describes the changing concepts of business in the 21^st century, including the debates about stockholders vs. stakeholders and ownership vs. stewardship; and includes leadership examples of companies that have won awards for their ethics and their social responsibility. The chapters are:

7. Ethical Elements in Business

8. The Changing Role of Business

9. Corporate Social Responsibility

10. The Global Perspective: Issues in CSR

Part IV: Living Into Your Spiritual Future at Work

Part IV includes the principles for a spiritual workplace, examples of companies that have won awards in this area, and some personal tasks involved in incorporating spirituality into your management practice. The chapters are:

11. The Spiritual Workplace

12. Integrating Spirituality into Leadership and Management

Part V: Additional Resources

The book concludes with four appendixes and an extensive index:

• Appendix A, Business Awards, provides information about criteria that various organizations use to select award-winning business in the areas of ethics, CSR, and spirituality.

• Appendix B, Ethical Elements in Today’s Business, presents information and opinion from the media and the web about real companies facing ethical dilemmas and invites you to consider what ethical decisions you would advise the corporations to make.

• Appendix C, Troublesome Traits in Human Leaders, describes some problematic behaviors that are common to leaders and managers in the workplace and that represent their “shadow side” as explained in Chapter 11.

• Appendix D, Ethics Pledge, presents an ethical pledge that you are invited to sign.

Personal Applications

Each chapter begins with a story or quotation and ends with questions for reflection or a meditation.

Workplace Spirituality: A Complete Guide for Business Leaders by Nancy R. Smith
ISBN 0-9778047-3-9; 6x9, 260 pages, $27.95, Publication date: June 5, 2006.
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