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Spirituality and management: From models to applications
No full textThis book discusses the importance of integrating spirituality from diverse knowledge backgrounds to be effective in its everyday use. Bringing together global experts in the field, this book provides an extensive overview of the various spirituality and management themes, models, approaches, and complexities. The chapters in the book include deliberations upon wisdom from the Bhagwat Gita; Buddha; the impact of spirituality on good governance, quality of life; integrating ethics, human values, happiness; meditation; and linking of spirituality and management and their effect on leadership, and workplace environment. A thought-provoking read for scholars, students, and policy-makers, this book provides an Indian perspective on managing spirituality at work. This book is even more relevant in the post-COVID-19 scenario as it focuses on the holistic development of people and organizations
Environmental management in transition: Lessons from tantra
No full textThis paper analyzes the ideational factors behind the inefficiency of main stream environmental management. The causes of the environmental crisis are here related to a mechanistic, utilitarian world view that includes rationalization, and “the iron cage of modernity,” as well as what Max Weber calls disenchantment (a lack of non-naturalistic elements in our vision of nature), with consequences such as insufficient and inefficient conservation policies. In search of an alternative frame work, capable of overcoming Weber’s disenchantment and motivating environmental action, we review the lessons of Tantric Spiritual Ecology, one of the several inspiring nature-centered spiritual practices, for restoring the balance within the human psyche, which, according to ecopsychologists, is a precondition for healing the earth. We further discuss the potential of Tantric spirituality to be translated into ecological action and contribute to changes in environmental management
Workplace spirituality and psychological contract in the “New Normal”
No full textPsychological contract is a construct to understand the employer–employee relationship. Workplace spirituality is a concept undergoing systematic research which contributes to the personal as well as organizational success. The current pandemic since last one and a half years has led to a “new normal” in the organizational perspective. The current chapter seeks to study the two research domains with the objective of exploring the relationship between workplace spirituality and psychological contract and their application in this new normal. Thus, outlining the future agenda for research which integrates workplace spirituality and psychological contract to improve the employee experience in the organizations
Spirituality and quality-of-life: A conceptual approach to adaptability and Workplace subjective wellbeing
No full textThis chapter considers the effects of spirituality as well as meaning and purpose on the quality-of-life and more specifically in the workplace subjective well-being, under the umbrella of the adaptability construct. Facing life challenges and changes may often be overwhelming and stressful. People learn that to deal with challenges and changes, they must become adaptable. This means that they must either have or develop the ability, purpose, and means to regulate their personal (mental, emotional, and behavioral) resources to achieve subjective well-being. Meaning and purpose are claimed to be a psychological well-being factor that often plays a regulatory role which can be described as the motivational propeller aiming for gratifying future endeavors and plans. Spirituality commonly is described as one’s ensuing life with meaning and purpose, and it is a notion, concept, and enlightenment that consequently leads to self-transcendence. It can rightfully be deduced that spirituality and meaning and purpose are cognate constructs. Emerging research on workplace spirituality has shown that workers, who find meaning in their work, function effectively and attain greater satisfaction in their work–life, which may also generate higher profitability for enterprises. The following analysis will demonstrate the relationship among meaning and purpose, spirituality, and adaptability and then the significant outcomes of those factors on workplace well-being. Accordingly, it will be conferring the role of workers’ spiritual beliefs at work for business organizations and society as a whol
Subjective well-being in the Indian context : concept, measure and index
No full textThis book offers an understanding of subjective well-being (SWB) in the Indian context across ages and strata. It discusses the conceptualization and measurement of both subjective well-being (SWB) and subjective ill-being (SIB) through a multi-phased research study. The structure of SWB and development, standardization, and indexing of an SWB Measure provide insights on how the SWB Measure can enable nations to find out the national level of SWB/SIB for its citizens. The index may be useful in identifying the level of people’s well-being or ill-being. It explores the possibility of implications and interventions in optimizing SWB both at the individual and collective levels. It is a consolidated account of the work done in SWB research, particularly with a cultural focus from the Indian context. This book has a wide application for students, researchers, psychometricians, practitioners, policymakers, and all individuals interested in concepts like SWB and Happines
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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