Emergence of Spiritual Leadership: Creating Internal Ownership and Empowerment in Complex Organizations

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Author(s): Theresa D. Neimann (Oregon State University, USA)and Uta M. Stelson (Huainan No. 2 Middle School, China)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 13
Source title: Encyclopedia of Strategic Leadership and Management
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Viktor Wang (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1049-9.ch015

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Science Reference / Management Science

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The emergence of spiritual leadership is drawing attention with leadership experts as an answer to worker performance sustainability. It is an open systems leadership strategy that sustains complex organizational work culture by focusing on shared worker-centered management. It values the eminence of human existence and the authenticity of the individual. The hypothesis of spiritual leadership purports when people work inauthentically by adapting their natural thinking and working styles to fit work expectations of employers, tension and stress result, leading ultimately to poor work performance. The servant posturing–base of spiritual leadership sustains worker performance by empowering natural inclinations in others, as well as cooperation, cooperative consensus-based democratic decision making and facilitating cooperative dialogue.

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