The Palgrave Handbook of Spirituality and Business

A summary of the most important issues, approaches and models in the field of spirituality in business, economics and society. The Handbook of Spirituality and Business presents a comprehensive pluralistic view covering all the major religious and spiritual traditions. Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Spirituality and Business....Pages 3-8 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 Religion and Spirituality....Pages 11-17 Spirituality and Rationality....Pages 18-25 Neuroscience of Spirituality....Pages 26-33 Transpersonal Psychology....Pages 34-41 Moral Agency and Spiritual Intelligence....Pages 42-48 Gender and Spirituality....Pages 49-57 Critique as a Notion of Spirituality....Pages 58-66 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 Aristotle and Economics....Pages 69-79 Indian Management Philosophy....Pages 80-87 Buddhist Economics....Pages 88-94 Confucianism and Taoism....Pages 95-102 Budo Philosophy....Pages 103-110 Jewish Ethical Perspective on Income and Wealth Distribution....Pages 111-117 Catholic Social Teaching....Pages 118-128 Protestant Economic Principles and Practices....Pages 129-137 Islamic Economics....Pages 138-146 Quaker Spirituality and the Economy....Pages 147-154 Personalism....Pages 155-162 Liberation Theology....Pages 163-170 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 Schumacher’s People-Centered Economics....Pages 171-178 Bahá’í Perspective on Business and Organization....Pages 179-186 Teaching of the Elders....Pages 187-194 Front Matter....Pages 195-195 Spiritual Meaning of the Economic Crisis....Pages 197-203 Materialistic Value Orientation....Pages 204-211 Avarice....Pages 212-218 Globalization....Pages 219-226 Deep Ecology....Pages 227-235 Climate Change and Spirituality....Pages 236-244 Ecological Sustainability and Organizational Functioning....Pages 245-253 Responsibility for Future Generations....Pages 254-260 Authenticity....Pages 261-268 Frugality....Pages 269-276 Civil Economy....Pages 277-284 Front Matter....Pages 285-285 Spiritual-Based Leadership....Pages 287-294 Deep Leadership in Spirit-Driven Business Organizations....Pages 295-304 Transformation Management....Pages 305-314 Mindfulness in Business....Pages 315-323 Voicing Meaningfulness at Work....Pages 324-333 Multinational Companies and the Common Good....Pages 334-341 Front Matter....Pages 285-285 Corporate Conscience....Pages 342-348 Front Matter....Pages 349-349 The New Role of Business in Society....Pages 351-358 Self-Assessment and Improvement Process for Organizations....Pages 359-368 Edgewalker Organizations....Pages 369-377 The Economy of Communion....Pages 378-386 Ethical Branding....Pages 387-395 Fair Trade Movement....Pages 396-403 Ethical Banking....Pages 404-410 Back Matter....Pages 411-421 A summary of the most important issues, approaches and models in the field of spirituality in business, economics and society. The Handbook of Spirituality andBusiness presents a comprehensive pluralistic view covering all the major religious and spiritual traditions. It is a response to three developments that challenge the business-as-usual mindset. Firstly, in response to a growing interest in spirituality applied to models of transformational leadership, in theories of social capital and in practices of values-driven management, it explores the emerging field of business spirituality--its main concepts, models and practices. Secondly, there is a growing awareness that the world is unsustainable without a strong commitment to frugality and self-restriction, and that material resources such as clean air and water, as well as non-material resources such as trust, compassion and peace, are fragile. Managing our vital resources will not succeed without good management of our spiritual resources. Therefore, this handbook aims to elucidate some of the conditions for a transformation towards a post-capitalist, values-driven global economy. And thirdly, although the interest in spiritually-driven entrepreneurship and governance is increasing, spirituality remains a vague and confusing concept that needs intellectual clarification. Hence, it seeks to clarify the concept of spirituality in the field of business and economics. Heuristic in style and content it explores new ideas on the frontier of the discipline which will appeal to scholars and practitioners looking for up-to-date and insightful knowledge. This handbook is structured in five parts: 5 the nature of spirituality; 5 spiritually inspired economics; 5 socioeconomic problems in spiritual perspective; 5 business spirituality; and 5 good practices and working models