... in religion) to provide legitimacy to this new initiative? Before we present this case, we briefly cover the stakeholder perspective and offer a glimpse of Saudi society. Scholars attribute the origin of the Stakeholder Perspective to the Stanford Research Institute in 1963 where stakeholders were...

...: Organizational change Malaysia Human resource management Religion Ethics Senior managers In recent years, organizational change and development (OCD) has emerged as a key theme in business and management literature (Burnes, 2004 ; Cummings and Worley, 2008 ; Senior, 2005 ; Whitely and Whitely...

... (Descartes, 1997, pp. 134‐90), a Buddhist scholar might challenge this by observing that the assertion was literally meaningless. Religion Organizational culture Phenomenology This paper argues that the invisibility of self and culture lies at the heart of cross‐cultural interaction...

...Kathy Lund Dean Empirical research in spirituality and religion in work (SRW) offers special challenges in construct conceptualization, operationalization, and data analysis. For this special research methods issue, accomplished researcher and SRW champion Ian I. Mitroff shares his thoughts...

...James E. King; Martha R. Crowther After a history of mostly ambivalence and neglect, organization‐focused research has shown a steadily growing interest in religiosity and spirituality over the past decade. While organizational scholars have been slower to incorporate religion and spirituality...

...Judi Neal; Jerry Biberman This paper is an introduction to the special issue on “The leading edge in research on spirituality and organizations”. The paper discusses some of the issues concerning the outer world of worldly activities and the inner world of spirituality and religion in modern...

... examples of how our assumptions influence our research. Using the author's own research as an example the paper utilizes the “holistic development model” to show how spirituality and religion influence various research choices and practices. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Beliefs Work Religion...

...Kathy Lund Dean; Charles J. Fornaciari; James J. McGee While spirituality and religion in work (SRW) as an inquiry field has been gaining interest in the popular press, it has only recently been recognized by the academic community. Consequently, its relevance to important research and its...

... wholeness in spirituality research: embracing other ways of knowing” © MCB UP Limited 2003 Beliefs Work Management Religion In the winter of 2002, a very interesting and passionate discussion took place on the management, spirituality and religion (MSR) listserve, sponsored...

...Charles J. Fornaciari; Kathy Lund Dean The emerging research on spirituality, religion and work (SRW) poses concerns for all social scientists. Specifically, the paradigm currently employed for social scientific research, including measurement techniques, data analysis, and even accepted language...

... all the voices. God is love, and he who abides in God abides in Love and God in him. Love of God and Neighbor rests at the heart of Christian spirituality. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Beliefs Leadership Executives Values Religion There is always an interest in how...

...Mark P. Kriger; Bruce J. Hanson This paper proposes a set of universal values, drawn from the world’s major religions, which are the basis for creating healthy organizations. These values are argued to be essential to enable both economic and spiritual ideals to thrive and to grow in modern...

... and firms encourage spirituality in the workplace. Many religiously‐oriented universities are integrating mission, spirituality and service in their education. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Belief Learning Management Management styles Religion Parker Palmer finds a basic unconscious fault...

.... © MCB UP Limited 1994 Decision making Human relations Leadership Meetings Organizational change Religion Strategy The newly constituted appointments, promotion and tenure (APT) committee met on a Wednesday morning in May. We met in one corner of the Dean′s formal and cavernous...

... of any organizational change and development intervention. Closes with a discussion of the ways in which organizational change and development consultants can and do act in shamanic ways. Consultants Development Employee attitudes Organizational change Philosophy Religion Stress Shamanism...

... experience can inform understanding of the third‐order organizational change process and presents a preliminary model of ways in which the third‐order change capacity might be developed. Employee involvement Organizational change Religion © MCB UP Limited 1994 In our joint work...