Spirituality for Leaders

Theoretical Insights and Practical Tools
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-07033-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Leadership: Research and Practice

Spirituality for Leaders delves into the integration of spirituality within leadership practices and highlights how spiritual beliefs and practices can enhance ethical decision-making, organizational culture, and well-being.

The book emphasizes the essential role of spirituality in fostering holistic and ethical leadership in today’s interconnected world. Drawing on diverse traditions, including Indigenous practices, traditional and New Age philosophies, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism, it examines spirituality through lenses such as contemplation, philosophy, religion, and practice. Practical applications such as mindfulness and meditation are presented as pathways toward workplace well-being and leadership effectiveness. The book addresses the role of spirituality in leadership, coaching, identity, inclusion, and organizational transformation. Including authors from both the Global North and Global South, it offers a panoramic and multidisciplinary perspective and provides a roadmap for fostering compassion, inclusivity, and integrity in leadership practices.

Combining theoretical insights with practical tools, the book appeals to business leaders, managers, HR professionals, and coaches seeking values-driven leadership models, as well as students and researchers of leadership, organizational psychology, business, philosophy, and religious studies. Individuals wishing to align their inner life with public action would also gain insight from this book.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Voynnet Fourboul, Catherine

Holm, Marie

Raei, Mohammed

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Wirtschafts-, Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Series Editor Foreword

Foreword

Introduction

Catherine Voynnet-Fourboul

Part I: Meditation and Contemplative Practices

1. Time and Inner Life

Elisabeth Martini

2. Leading in Five Dimensions

Laurence Baranski

3. Spiritualism: Leadership Insights from a New Religious Movement

Marie Holm

4. Mindfulness: Fad or Managerial Innovation?

Michaël Roux and Mathilde Gollety

5. The Way of St. James

Muriel De Fabrègues

Part II: Religious Enlightenment

6. Lived Faith in the Practice of Christian Leaders  Désiré Rigobert Ayina

7.  Managerial Practices in Eastern European Countries

Stefka Mihaylova-Marburger

8.  Beyond Power: Jewish Roots as Transformational Leadership

Lisa A. Berkley

9. Hinduism, Spirituality, and Transformational Leadership in the Digital World

Balakrishnan Muniapan

10. Taoist Leadership

Laurent Chateau

11. The Spirituality of Leadership in Islam

Yacoub Babali

Part III: Embodied Practices

12. The Radiant Leader

Sandrine Meyfret

13.  Well-Being, Quality of Life (at Work) and Spirituality

Stéphanie Carpentier

14. Spirituality and Work-Life Balance

Patricia Niglis and Ilda-Ilse Burgunder

15. The Art of Ethics in Practice

Mohamed Makkaoui

16. Transformation: Virtue Ethics and Spirituality

Richard J. Major

Part IV: The Self as Inner Architecture of Leadership

17. Vulnerability as a Spiritual Experience of the Leader

Sophie Izoard-Allaux

18. Fil de Soi, the Virtue of Experience

Michèlle Schitter

19. Intrinsic Motivations and Commitment

Andrea Micheaux

20. Creative Freedom

Quentin Lefebvre

Part V: Leadership and Organization

21. Toward a Full Recognition of the Human Being in the Organization

Miguel Delattre`

22. A Manager's Path to Spiritual Transformation

Laurent Ledoux

23. Spirituality at Work: Miller’s Faith-Work Integration Scale

Philippe Jacquinot and Arnaud Pellissier-Tanon

24. Stories of Executive Inner Shifts that Spark Organizational Change

Hervé Essa

25. Corporate Social Responsibility and Spirituality: A Path to the Common Good

Sandra Latour and Catherine Voynnet-Fourboul

Part VI: Leadership Coaching

26. Spirituality within the Coaching Relationship

Xavier Garcia-Weibel

27. The Spiritual Dimension in Education and in Technontology

Florent Pasquier

28. Codevelopment & Spirituality

Anne-Marguerite Ferreira

29. Evocative Leadership

Xavier Garcia-Weibel

30. Quantum Leadership: Science, Consciousness, Change

Catherine Voynnet-Fourboul

Part VII: Identity and Inclusion

31. Negotiation and the Place of Spirituality

Stéphane Pradines

32. The Inclusive Role of the Consultant

Eric Gautier-Laurent

33. The Uniqueness and "Raison d’Être" of Companies

Patrick Mathieu

34. Indigenous-Based Leaderless Leadership and Spiritual Awareness

Four Arrows

Conclusion

Catherine Voynnet-Fourboul

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine Voynnet-Fourboul is a scholar and consultant. She teaches human resource management and qualitative methods at the University of Paris Panthéon-Assas, France, and directs the Executive HR Master of CIFFOP. She co-founded the research group “Management and Spirituality” of the AGRH. She provides consultancy to organisations in managerial development.

Marie Holm is an Associate Professor at INSEEC Grande École, OMNES Education in France, specialised in human resource management and workplace spirituality. She previously worked in event management and marketing, and she is a minister, medium, and holistic therapist with the Norwegian Spiritualist Foundation, of which she is also a board member.

Mohammed Raei is an independent scholar, dissertation coach, developmental editor, executive coach, leadership and organization development consultant, and podcast host. He is a co-editor of two notable anthologies: Adaptive Leadership in a Global Economy: Perspectives for Application and Scholarship and Leadership at the Spiritual Edge: Emerging and Non-Western Concepts of Leadership and Spirituality, both published by Routledge.