BUSINESS GOALS, ETHICS, MEANING AND DIVERSITY ARE PART OF A SPIRITUALLY FRIENDLY WORKPLACE

New book integrates personal behavior, spiritual diversity, business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and leadership strategies as essential to workplace spirituality

Peabody, MA—The new book Workplace Spirituality: A Complete Guide for Business Leaders  by Nancy R. Smith insists that workplace spirituality must include more than helping people to feel creative and useful. Meaning, mutual respect, ethics, and social responsibility are equally important. In the book Smith says:

“Providing a meditation room and opportunities for employees to express their spirituality is not enough. Focusing only on encouraging workers’ personal spiritual needs does not relieve a company of its responsibility to conduct its business in a way that protects the environment.

“Being strictly ethical in accounting practices is not enough. Ethical accounting does not free a company from the responsibility of paying a living wage, nor excuse it for discrimination in hiring and promoting.

“Providing access to corporate chaplains is not enough. Making chaplains available to employees in the U.S. does not make up for violating the human rights of immigrants or of overseas workers in the supply chain.”

Shel Horowitz, author of Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First and founder of the Business Ethics Pledge, praises Smith’s book as a “thoroughly researched exploration of workplace spirituality [that] draws on sources as diverse as ancient folktales from around the world, books by leading economic experts, and popular news media. It's particularly gratifying that she devotes several chapters to ethics and social responsibility—and that the book not only affirms Smith's own Christian faith but is careful to validate other religious traditions as well.”

Smith’s experience includes 20 years as a technical writer and manager, along with extensive experience in ministry, teaching, and spiritual coaching and direction. For the past several years she has researched issues related to spirituality in the workplace and maintained the website www.WorkplaceSpirituality.info.

Workplace Spirituality: A Complete Guide for Business Leaders by Nancy R. Smith, ISBN 0-9778047-3-9, is offered by Axial Age Publishing. It is available for $27.95 from bookstores or from the publisher’s website http://www.AxialAgePublishing.com.

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