Spirituality at Work A Study of Selected Organizations

<p><em>Spirituality in general and in the workplace in particular has received heightened attention</em></p><p><em>not only in the popular press but also in the business and management literature and in</em></p><p><em>research (Fry 2003; Gotsis & Kortezi 2008; Kolodinsky Giacalone & Jurkiewicz 2008;</em></p><p><em>Konz & Ryan 1999; McLaughlin 1998; Pawar 2009a). The phenomenon of connecting</em></p><p><em>spirituality to work has now become a part of the popular culture. Evidences of workplace</em></p><p><em>spirituality have become a significant movement and can be easily found (Conlin 1999;</em></p><p><em>McKee 2003). Garcia-Zamor (2003) stated that over 300 books on workplace spirituality</em></p><p><em>were in bookstores in 1999 which in 2001 captured a niche market of $2.2 billion (Lewis</em></p><p><em>2001). Some examples of such books are: A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America</em></p><p><em>(Mitroff & Denton 1999a) Liberating the Corporate Soul (Barrett 1998) Spirit at Work</em></p><p><em>(Conger 1994) The Soul of Business: Managing for Profit and the Common Good</em></p><p><em>(Chappell 1993) Leading with Soul (Bolman & Deal 1995) and The Heart Aroused:</em></p><p><em>Poetry and Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America (Whyte 1994). Aburdene</em></p><p><em>(2007) in her latest book Megatrend 2010 stated that the presence of spirituality in</em></p><p><em>business has become so pervasive that it is the greatest megatrend of this decade. Further</em></p>