WORKPLACE MANAGEMENT

Religion and Spirituality in the Workplace



Religion and Spirituality in the Workplace

Introduction

The paper discusses the concept of religion and spirituality in the workplace. It attempts to enlighten workplace management and its importance in a holistic context. The paper also explains the idea of spirituality in the workplace and discusses the role of manager in managing issues related to the spiritual aspect of human nature. It then explains the concept of religion in the context of workplace. The paper also highlights the overall impact of spirituality and religion in the workplace management.

Discussion

The aspects that make up the theme of diversity/variety in the management of human resources are summarized, mediating between the various authors such as age, lifestyle, social status, gender and sexual orientation, training, geographic location, relational forms; professional culture, organizational, community and national religion and spirituality (Paloutzian & Park, 2005). The assumption is that organizations within a demographic and psychosocial imbalance (standardized or unknowingly) will lead to negative effects on performance quality, climate and, in some cases, a decline in corporate image (Fernando, 2007). In an environment of constant change it is difficult to open the spiritual possibilities of work and the people with whom we work. Here we must learn to work at a higher spiritual level - it's very hard to find inspiration in the world "is constantly bubbling water." In the postindustrial society, but the process of identifying causes of flour, plagues people who have to deal with unexpected problems for him: the difficulties of financing the project, a man under pressure deadlines and mechanical quality criteria and a host of other factors (Paloutzian & Park, 2005).

Very often, in our workplace we do not feel "at home". The work does not produce happiness. We are not valued and do not respect your worth. Then we started to link this situation and think about it through our spirituality as we just describe it (Marques, Dhiman & King, 2007). In this process of reflection we discover a contradiction between our spirituality and the reality we live. We began to question this contradiction (Paloutzian & Park, 2005). In this process of reflection and questioning, we began to realize that you need to change this reality. We use references to religion, the sacred books and the lives of those who fought for justice, truth, peace and solidarity to convince us that we must live our spirituality in the midst of these contradictions (Fernando, 2007). It is the starting point for action. We promise to do something to change the situation. We are committed to responding to the situation. It is what we call "action". This action grows out of our own spirituality (Paloutzian & Park, 2005).

Spirituality in the Workplace

We spend a lot of our waking hours in the strong, substantive, results-oriented business world. The business world recognizes that spirituality is a legitimate place in the marketplace of the 21st Century (Marques, Dhiman & King, 2007). There are many explanations for this relatively new ...