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This comprehensive collection of essays by the preeminent researchers and practitioners in faith and spirituality in the workplace, features not only current research and case examples, but visions of what will be, or should be, emerging over the horizon.

\"Change processes in organizations are time consuming, expensive, and often don't create the intended results. This book creates a new way for leaders to relate to change from a place of deeper understanding. Based on years of research, consulting, and teaching, the models and frameworks described in this book have been applied successfully in organizations such as Johnson & Johnson, AT&T, IBM, Facebook, Charles Schwab & Company, and Accenture. The book provides breakthrough thinking to leaders who find themselves in the chaos of multiple high amplitude changes that cannot be managed from an autocratic or even a participative mindset. The successful transformation of a human system does not require that people change who they are so much as it requires they become more of who they are-more like themselves. Change does not require new step-by-step models offered by an outside expert. It requires teaching people how to become model builders. As a result of this deeper transformation of mindset, not only will people in the organization be able to manage the particular change crisis facing them in the moment, they will develop a new relationship to change so that strategic thinking and breakthrough business outcomes become part of the organizational norm. This book will primarily appeal to experienced leaders, senior managers and change agents who have learned that the textbook recipes for initiating or responding to change don't work. It is also useful supplementary reading for students of organizational studies and leadership\"-- Provided by publisher.

Projects have always been essentially human endeavours. Large modern projects are generally highly complex, fraught with technical difficulties and supported by diverse, often apparently conflicted stakeholders. The spirituality that originally defined some of the great construction projects of the classical era surely has a role in project management today. The Spirit of Project Management explains the context for spirituality in projects and explores how it can be used to create a larger sense of purpose and achievement; to help encourage an esprit de corps amongst all those involved; to act as a touchstone for ethical and sustainable decision-making. This is a very pragmatic book. The first part includes an explanation and a variety of useful models for understanding the significance and value of spirituality in projects. Judi Neal and Alan Harpham devote the second part of the book to help you integrate these ideas into your day-to-day management of projects. Thus there are chapters on spirituality from the perspective of the individual, the project team, the project organization and even project management within a sustainable world framework. Read this book, use the ideas to help you articulate your projects; engage and sustain your project team and your stakeholders; and frame how you work in terms of your organisation, society and the environment. Contents: Preface; Part I The Context for Spirituality and Project Management: Back ground of project management in a spiritual context; Background on faith and spirituality in the workplace; The virtues of spirituality and project management; The importance of spirituality in project management. Part II Integrating Spirituality and Project Management: Self and spirituality in project management; Teams and spirituality in project management; The organisation and spirituality in project management; The planet and spirituality in project management; The history and the future of project management; Appendices; References; Index. Dr Judi Neal is Director of the Tyson Center for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace at the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas. The Center supports research, education, and business outreach for those interested in faith and spirituality in the workplace. Judi is President of Edgewalkers International, a consultancy committed to helping leaders, teams and organizations to be on their leading edge. She is the author of Edgewalkers: People and Organizations that Take Risks, Build Bridges and Break New Ground and The Handbook for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace. She was the founder of the International Center for Spirit at Work, and a co-founder of the Management, Spirituality and Religion Interest Group at the Academy of Management. Judi has consulted to organizations such as Pfizer, Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, Jackson Newspapers, and numerous others, and has spoken about spirituality in the workplace internationally. She is considered one of the pioneers and experts in the field and has been quoted in The London Sunday Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Tokyo Shimbum, and has appeared frequently on television and radio in the U.S. Alan Harpham is a management consultant focused on change management, programme management, project management and executive coaching. He is Chairman of The APM Group, Chairman of Workplace Matters Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire and a previous Board Member of The International Center for Spirit at Work. He is also on the selection committee of the International Faith and Spirit at Work Awards. He is Chairman of Cranfield University's Science & Engineering Research Ethics Committee and the SPD Research Ethics Committee (medical). Alan was co-owner and a founding director of P5 - the Power of Projects. He is also a former trustee of several charitable organisations including MODEM, and The Friends of the Bedford Child Development Centre. He was a founding member of the Jury for the IPMA International Project Management Awards and continued as such until 2006. Alan Harpham is also a former Managing Director and senior consultant of Nichols Associates (now part of The Nichols Group), one of the UK's leading consultancies in project and change management. Before that he was the Director of Cranfield University's MSc in Project Management.

This comprehensive collection of essays by the preeminent researchers and practitioners in faith and spirituality in the workplace, features not only current research and case examples, but visions of what will be, or should be, emerging over the horizon.

While the field of management has developed as a research discipline over the last century, until the early 1990s there was essentially no acknowledgement that the human spirit plays an important role in the workplace. Over the past twenty years, the tide has begun to turn, as evidenced by the growing number of courses in academia and in corporate training, and an exponential increase in the publications emerging through creative interaction of scholars and practitioners in organizational behavior, workplace diversity, sustainability, innovation, corporate governance, leadership, and corporate wellness, as well as contributions by psychotherapists, theologians, anthropologists, educators, philosophers, and artists. This Handbook is the most comprehensive collection to date of essays by the preeminent researchers and practitioners in faith and spirituality in the workplace, featuring not only the most current research and case examples, but visions of what will be, or should be, emerging over the horizon. It includes essays by the people who helped to pioneer the field as well as essays by up and coming young scholars. The aim of The Handbook of Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace is to provide researchers, faculty, students, and practitioners with a broad overview of the field from a research perspective, while keeping an eye on building a bridge between scholarship and practice.

This article begins with a brief overview of trends in spirituality in the workplace and then reports qualitative results of research interviews conducted with people who see work as service to the Divine. Issues of work as prayer, service to others, ego and selflessness, and making a difference are discussed. A brief summary of research by Kurth (1995) is provided. The article concludes with a description of spiritual practices that support an attitude of service.

The Internet is becoming a very important new technology in all organizations, including universities. Many in academia are adopting this innovative technology to aid in their teaching, research, and consulting. In this study, using the learning organization theoretical framework, the effects of learning organization characteristics, other organizational factors, and individual variables on the use of the Internet by a random sample of 245 business school faculty members in the United States were examined and analyzed. Some support for learning organization characteristics, as well as support for individual and other organizational factors, was found.

The context for spirituality and project management -- Background of project management in a spiritual context -- Background on faith and spirituality in the workplace -- The virtues of spirituality and project management -- The importance of spirituality in project management -- Integrating spirituality and project management -- Self and spirituality in project management -- Teams and spirituality in project management -- The organisation and spirituality in project management -- The planet and spirituality in project management -- The history and the future of project management