Searching for Spirituality in All the Wrong Places

Journal of Business Ethics · 2003 · Volume 48 · Issue 4

Abstract

This paper examines three popular and important books on spirituality in business: Mitroff and Denton's A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America, Nash and McLennan's Church on Sunday, Work on Monday, and Lerner's Spirit Matters. Interestingly, none of these books can find satisfactory examples of legitimate spirituality in business.This paper suggests that one reason these authors can not find acceptable models of spirituality in business is that they are all employing an unnecessarily restrictive definition of spirituality.The paper concludes by suggesting that a definition of spirituality based on John Dewey's pragmatist philosophy is more appropriate for today's businesses.

Keywords

Economic Growth, Nash, Acceptable Model, Wrong Place, Restrictive Definition

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