Appeals to an interdisciplinary audience of students, scholars and practitioners in the fields of HRM, management, business ethics, cultural studies and sociology Provides practical implications for successful organisation and management practice, recognising the importance of spirituality in the workplace Offers insightful examples from a diverse range of Indian organisations

Autorentext

Sushanta Kumar Mishra is Professor of Management and the Chairperson of the PhD programme at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore, in India. His research focuses on individual behaviour in organisations and has been published in several leading journals including Human Resource Management and the Journal of World Business.

**Arup Varma **is Professor of Management at the Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago, in the USA.  His research focuses on performance appraisal and expatriate adjustment issues. A co-editor of five books, he has published widely in leading journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and Human Resource Management Review. 

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Spirituality and Organisation; Sushanta Kumar Mishra and Arup Varma.- Part I. The Evolution and Characteristics of Workplace Spirituality.- 2. Spirituality in Management: Towards Management by Higher Consciousness; Subhash Sharma.- 3. Adhyatma or Spirituality: Construct Definition and Elaboration Using Multiple Methods; Dharm Prakash Bhawuk.- 4. Constructing Workplace Spirituality in an Indian Context: A Study on Working Professionals; Jatin Pandey.- 5. Nonviolence Behaviour in the Workplace: Myth or Reality?; Ayatakshee Sarkar and Sasmita Palo.- Part II. Empirical Evidence of Workplace Spirituality.- 6. Finding Spirituality at Work through Employee Volunteerism; Devyani Mourya.- 7. Spirituality and an Online Satirical News Venture: The Case of Faking News; Animesh Bahadur and Kunal Kamal Kumar.- 8. Eudaimonia and Hedonia through Enrichment: Pathways to Happiness; Rajesh Premchandran and Pushpendra Priyadarshi.- Part III. Predictors of Workplace Spirituality.- 9.Spiritual Intelligence in the Gig Economy; Arti Sharma and Himanshu Sharma.- 10. Workplace Spirituality as a Predictor of Employee Engagement; Rupa Rathee and Vandana Sharma.- 11. Rethinking Management Education: Integrating Spiritual Values into Education as Envisaged by Swami Vivekananda; Moitreyee Paul.- Part IV. Critical Perspectives.- 12. Critical Perspectives on Corporate Mindfulness and Workplace Spirituality; Vivek Khanna and Prabhjot Dutta Khanna.- 13. Workplace Spirituality: An Agenda for Future Research; Arup Varma and Sushanta Kumar Mishra.