Spirituality and Ethics in Management [electronic resource] / edited by László Zsolnai.

Spirituality and Management -- West -- Spirituality as the Context for Leadership -- Spirit-Centered, Rajashi Leadership -- Spirituality and Economic Democracy -- Philosophical Approaches -- The Birth of Spiritual Economics -- Spiritual Motivation in Management -- Spirituality and Human Ecosystems -- Loyalty and the Sense of Place -- Learning and Spirituality -- Integrating Spirituality and Management -- Beyond the Prose of Business -- The Economy of Sharing -- Spirituality as Faith in Relation to Management -- Organizational Transformation Through Human Values -- Spiritually-Based Leadership -- A New Chance for Management - A New Challenge for Spirituality -- Conclusion -- Taking Spirituality Seriously.

This book is a collection of scholarly papers, which focus on the role of spirituality and ethics in renewing contemporary management praxis. The basic argument is that a more inclusive, holistic and peaceful approach to management is needed if business and political leaders are to uplift the environmentally degrading and socially disintegrating world of our age. The book uses diverse value-perspectives (Hinduism, Catholicism, Buddhism and Humanism) and a variety of disciplines to extend traditional reflections on corporate purpose. It focuses on a self-referential organizational-existential search for meaning, identity and success. Spirituality and Ethics in Management will be of value to managers, students of business and public administration, ethicists, psychologists and scholars in religious studies. The book can be used as supplementary reading in graduate and post-graduate courses in leadership, business ethics, managerial psychology, and social studies of religions.