Spiritual Motivation in Management

Abstract

Management is a response-based practice. This presupposes the modeling of the management choice as the response to incentives. For management the socio-economic environment provides the circle of the relevancies that give meanings to acts characterized by problem solving, cooperation, participation, and planning. When we see value-orientation from a spiritual perspective it appears as binding ties, and also as a freely chosen orientation. The managers in this situation are determined not only biographically but also in a social context. Spirituality is not panacea for the all problems of management, but it is measure-giving activity. It is not to be equated with the approach such as “other-regarding” preferences; in fact, spirituality includes necessary self-transformation and self-orientation in the community. Besides, spirituality refers to the fact that without ethical self-care and strong commitment there is no ethical belongingness. Managers must bring this practice into play in their relationship to their fellow men within a community. Spirituality in this way provides an enlarged sense of inter-connection between self and others, including the non-human others, “ecological nesting”, by removing the obstacle of ego-centered individualism. It is of crucial importance in the rethinking of the ethically significant economy.