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Spiritual Leadership

IISL
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RELIGION vs. SPIRITUALITY

Religion is concerned with faith in the claims of one faith


tradition or another, an aspect of which is the
acceptance of some form of heaven or nirvana.
Connected with this are religious teachings or dogma,
ritual prayer, and so on.

Spirituality is concerned with those qualities of the human


spirit-such as love and compassion, patience
tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of
responsibility, a sense of wholeness and harmony-
which bring happiness to both self and others.
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RELIGION vs. SPIRITUALITY

The common bridge between spirituality and


religion is Altruistic love regard or devotion to
the interests of others.

In religion this is manifested through the golden


rule which is common to all major religions.

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RELIGION vs. SPIRITUALITY

From this perspective, spirituality is necessary for


religion but religion is not necessary for
spirituality.

Spiritual leadership can therefore either be


inclusive or exclusive of religious theory and
practice.
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SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP

Spiritual leadership theory is a causal leadership


model for organizational transformation designed
to create an intrinsically motivated, learning
organization. The theory of spiritual leadership
was developed within an intrinsic motivation
model that incorporates vision, hope/faith, and
altruistic love, theories of workplace spirituality,
and spiritual survival/well-being.

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SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP

Comprises the values, attitudes, and behaviors that


one must adopt to intrinsically motivate ones self
and others so they have a sense of spiritual well-
being through calling and membership i.e. they
experience meaning in their lives, have a sense of
making a difference, and feel understood and
appreciated.

Fleischman, 1990; Fry, 2003;


Maddock & Fulton, 1998
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SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP

The purpose of spiritual leadership is to tap into the


fundamental needs of both leader and follower for
spiritual well-being through calling and
membership, to create vision and value
congruence across the individual, empowered
team, and organization levels and, ultimately, to
foster higher levels of organizational
commitment, productivity, and maximize BOTH
human well-being and performance excellence.
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SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP
EXTRINSIC VS. INTRINSIC
MOTIVATION
Extrinsic Effort
Motivation Performance Reward

Give Me a Reward to Work

Intrinsic
Motivation Effort Performance

Reward
My Work is
My Reward
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PERSONAL SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP
Qualities

QUALITIES OF PERSONAL SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP AS INTRINSIC MOTIVATION THROUGH


VISION, HOPE/FAITH and ALTRUISTIC VALUES
Hope/Faith (Effort) Vision (Performance)
Endurance Broad appeal to key Stakeholders
Perseverance Defines the Destination and Journey
Do What It Takes Reflects High Ideals
Stretch Goals Encourages Hope/Faith
Expectation of Reward Establishes a Standard of Excellence
Victory

Altruistic Values (Reward)


Forgiveness Kindness
Integrity Empathy/Compassion
Honesty Patience
Courage Trust/Loyalty
Humility
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SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP THEORY
PERFORMANCE
(Vision) CALLING
Make a Difference
EFFORT Life has Meaning
(Hope/Faith)
MEMBERSHIP
REWARD Be Understood
(Altruistic Love) Be Appreciated
Spiritual Leadership Spiritual Well-being

Organizational Commitment,
Productivity, Profit & Sales Growth

(c) IISL
FUNDAMENTAL PROPOSITIONS OF
SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP

Workplace spirituality is defined as:

A framework of organizational values evidenced in


the culture that promotes employees experience
of transcendence through the work process,
facilitating their sense of being connected in a
way that provides feelings of compassion and joy.

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THE ICEBERG

This iceberg represents your leadership.


10% of an iceberg is above water, while 90% is underwater. The 10% above
the water is your skill. The 90% below the water is your character. Its
whats below the surface that sinks the ship. Skill may get you to the top;
character keeps you there.
CHARACTER
Character can be seen as the sum total of our:

Self-discipline: doing whats right even if


you dont feel like it
Core values: principles you live by that
enable you to take a moral stand
Sense of identity: a realistic self-image
based on your gifts and personality
Emotional security: the capacity to be
emotionally stable and consistent
Fun fact: there are icebergs that have nothing
below the surface of the waterthey are called
whistlers. Theyre easy to spot. They drift.
FUNDAMENTAL PROPOSITIONS OF
SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP

To be successful in the 21st century, global, Internet age,


organizations must adopt and implement the learning organizational
paradigm
The fundamental element/building block of the learning
organization is the empowered team:
Must be based in trust
Must have a sense of calling and membership
Must have essential characteristics necessary for an empowered
team.
What is required for workplace spirituality is an inner life that
nourishes and is nourished by calling or transcendence of self
within the context of a community or membership based on the
14 values of altruistic love.
FUNDAMENTAL PROPOSITIONS OF
SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP

Satisfying these spiritual needs in the workplace positively


influences human health and psychological well-being and forms
the foundation for the new spiritual leadership paradigm.
By tapping into these basic and essential needs, spiritual leaders
produce the follower trust, intrinsic motivation, and commitment
that is necessary to simultaneously optimize organizational
performance and human well-being in learning organizations.
Spiritual survival/spiritual well-being is an outcome of spiritual
leadership

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FUNDAMENTAL PROPOSITIONS OF
SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP

Positive human health, and psychological well-being and


organizational commitment, productivity, and performance
excellence are outcomes of spiritual survival/spiritual well-being.

Ethical well-being (Manifested as joy, peace, serenity) is an


outcome of authentically living (values-attitudes-behavior) the
values of altruistic love.
A. Ethical well-being + calling = spiritual well-being.
B. Ethical well-being is necessary for spiritual well-being.

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FUNDAMENTAL PROPOSITIONS OF
SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP

The fundamental proposition that should be tested


in future research that spiritual leadership and
the learning organizational paradigm are
necessary for organizations to achieve BOTH
human well-being and performance excellence in
the 21st century.

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STRATEGIC MODEL OF PERFORMANCE
EXCELLENCE

The Strategic Model of Performance Excellence through


Spiritual Leadership depicted in the next Figure provides a
process for ultimately impacting customer satisfaction and
financial performance by fostering the development of the
motivation and leadership required to drive both human well-
being and excellent operational performance.

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Spiritual Leadership as the Keystone

Spiritual
Leadership
Organizational Human
Commitment Dignity

Productivity Calling

Quality Membership

Customer Ethical &


Satisfaction Spiritual Well-
being
Financial
Performance

Performance Employee
19 Excellence Well-Being
Strategic Scorecard Model of
Performance Excellence through Spiritual Leadership
Strategic Management Process
Internal
Internal &
&
Mission
Mission && Strategy
Strategy &
&
External
External Implementation
Implementation Evaluate
Evaluate
Vision
Vision Objectives
Objectives
Analysis
Analysis

Leading Indicators/Managing Metrics Outcome Indicators/Strategic Performance Indicators

Inputs Outputs:
Outputs: Customer
Customer Financial
Financial
Inputs Processes
Processes Quality
Quality Satisfaction
Satisfaction Performance
Performance
Scorecard) Delivery
Service

Input/Output Model
BS
SS

Calling
Calling
Performance
Performance Strategic
Make
MakeaaDifference
Difference
(Vision)
(Vision) Scorecard
Life
Life HasMeaning
Has Meaning
Effort
Effort Commitment
Commitment Performance
(Hope/Faith)
(Hope/Faith) Learning
Learning &
& Categories
Works
Works Growth
Growth
Reward
Reward Membership
Membership
(Altruistic
(Altruistic Be
BeUnderstood
Understood
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Love) Be Appreciated
Be Appreciated
Leadership Process
Spiritual Lesson for Corporate Social
Responsibility

Serve the people not in charity but in


love
Charity is moral act but service with
love is spiritual act.
The act of charity may generate ego,
but the service done out of love
reduces or melts the ego.
Conclusion

Positive Strengths-Based Culture

SPIRITUAL SPIRITUAL
LEADER FOLLOWERS
Vision Vision

Hope/ Altruistic Hope/ Altruistic


Faith Love Faith Love

Positive Forms of Leadership

Positive Psychological Capital


Positive Ethical/Moral Perspective
Positive Modeling
Positive Social Exchanges

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