From Outward Bound to Inward Bound: the Prophetic Voices and Discursive Practices of Spiritual Management Development
- This article seeks to identify the theoretical foundations and practical features of spiritual management development (SMD) through social movements which have enabled the diffusion of religious practices into secular life and led to the development of a more spiritualized psychology. Although similarities can be seen with outdoor management development, SMD is distinctive because it encourages subjects to search for meaning in their everyday working life through engagement with an inner self. It thus encourages an internalized, implicit form of religiosity where the search for self-understanding and the search for meaning are closely aligned. Through a re-contextualized, critical reading of the idealistic, Utopian visions portrayed by Maslow and Fromm and the spiritual, transpersonal psychologies of Jung and Assagioli, the intellectual foundations from which SMD practice has developed are traced. Analysis of the texts associated with SMD practice illustrates how these discourses are made meaningful to managers through the concepts of self-realization, holism and personal and embodied experience which define events as implicitly religious. However, by defining managerial identity in terms of the inner self and placing responsibility for change on the individual, SMD is isolated from possible critique and transformed from a potentially enlightening into a potentially repressive project.
MetadatenVerfasserangaben: | Emma Bell, Scott Taylor |
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Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch): | Human Relations, Vol. 57, No. 4 (2004), pp. 439-466. [Online ISSN 1741-282X] [doi.org/10.1177/0018726704043895] |
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Dokumentart: | Artikel / Beiträge |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
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Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2004 |
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Datum der Freischaltung: | 04.04.2024 |
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Format: | to purchase via publisher |
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ID-Nr.: | Bell_E_and_Taylor_S_2004 |
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Schriften über Erich Fromm (Sekundärliteratur): | Articles / Artikel |
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Bibliothek von Erich Fromm und Erich Fromm-Archiv: | Articles / Artikel |
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