GBR Special Issue: Spiritual Leadership
Living in a complex world and moving into the smart machine age, the need for good leadership is even greater; spiritual leadership provides a compass to navigate through difficult decisions.
Organizational Behavior
EDITORIAL: Research and Teaching on Spirituality and Spiritual Leadership in Management
Research and teaching in the field will help future managers and organization leaders cope with the stress and anxiety and sometimes rancor that organizations may be experiencing.
Leadership “Jesus Style”
Jesus of Nazareth manifests character traits in His speech and actions that transcend time and culture and offer insights into leadership practices and priorities worth serious consideration.
Does Spirituality Make a Difference in Leadership?
This article examines the topic of spirituality and leadership using the example of the Apostle Paul as an exemplary leader for contemporary times.
Spiritual Leadership in the Learning Organization
Spiritual leadership has evolved from a concept of ministry to a model for leaders in business and management to use in addressing the challenges of running a business and making a profit.
Bringing the Human Spirit to Business Leadership
Major shifts are required in leadership awareness and in how organizations are run and managed in order to solve the complex issues facing today’s business.
Spirituality, Creativity, and Solving New Problems
Creating a generative learning team is essential to organizational effectiveness and such a team depends on spiritual and knowledge-based resources to solve problems.
Thriving Through Crisis: A Resiliencing Approach
Resiliencing starts with adopting a mindset that emphasizes proactivity in looking for early signs of alarms and establishing and sustaining concrete practices.
Building Positive Organizational Communities
Fostering a sense of high-involvement community strengthened by high-quality connections may be the recipe for competitive advantage in today’s marketplace.
The Garden: An Organismic Metaphor for Distinguishing Inclusion from Diversity
Many organizations erroneously interchange the terms diversity and inclusion, obscuring the focus, therefore the effectiveness, of well-intentioned interventions.
Kindness and Self-Interest
In an competitive world, leaders must become students of human relations and recognize that managing by command and control rarely works in today’s economy.
Integrative Consulting
Consultants can add value by identifying, educating, facilitating, and guiding involvement of key decision makers and stakeholders through competent social dialogue
The Covenantal Leader
This article explains the role of covenantal leaders in understanding overlooked assumptions making up the unspoken psychological contract between leaders and followers.
Hiring Disabled Workers
Too often the ability of the community of disabled persons to constructively contribute to society and the recognition of their need to do so is overlooked.
The Benefits of Mindfulness in Leading Transformational Change
The experience of ambiguity can be unsettling and anxiety provoking for all concerned, thereby impairing organization members’ willingness and ability to change.