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Workplace Spirituality: A Best Practice Toward Organizational Integrity

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The business environment has undergone dramatic changes for the past several decades, and these paradigmatic adjustments have brought about new expectations about work and the work environment. It has been argued that downsizing, reengineering, and layoffs of the past few decades have turned many American workplaces into environments in which workers have been demoralized and taken for granted (Brandt, 1996). Individuals have witnessed the work environment become increasingly impersonal and, in some cases, insecure environments (Fry & Cohen, 2009). The push for higher economic returns, productivity, and profitability has crippled and eventually bankrupted once-prominent organizations. The wide road of traditional management has led many organizations and their leaders to perdition.

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  1. Tracy H. Porter
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  1. Goethe Business School, Germany

    Wolfgang Amann

  2. Silesian University of Technology, Poland

    Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch (Associate Professor of Management) (Associate Professor of Management)

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Porter, T.H., Norris, S.E. (2013). Workplace Spirituality: A Best Practice Toward Organizational Integrity. In: Amann, W., Stachowicz-Stanusch, A. (eds) Integrity in Organizations. Humanism in Business Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137280350_22

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