The spiritual organization: critical reflections on the instrumentality of workplace spirituality

Authors' draft of article. Final version published by Routledge in Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion available online at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14766086.aspThis paper offers a theoretical contribution to the current debate on workplace spirituality by: (a) providing a selective critical review of scholarship, research and corporate practices which treat workplace spirituality in performative terms, that is, as a resource or means to be manipulated instrumentally and appropriated for economic ends; (b) extending Ezioni’s analysis of complex organizations and proposing a new category, the ‘spiritual organization’, and; (c) positing three alternative positions with respect to workplace spirituality that follow from the preceding critique. The spiritual organization can be taken to represent the development of a trajectory of social technologies that have sought, incrementally, to control the bodies, minds, emotions and souls of employees. Alternatively, it might be employed to conceptualize the way in which employees use the workplace as a site for pursuing their own spiritualities (a reverse instrumentalism). Finally, we consider the possible incommensurability of ‘work organization’ and ‘spirituality’ discourses

The Importance of Context in Managerial Work: The Case of Senior Hotel Managers in Greece

Qualitative research on the interplay between context and hospitality managerial work has not been previously addressed in the literature. Based on the works of Johns (2006) and Dierdorff et al. (2009), this research suggests that luxury senior hotel managers (GMs and department managers) are to a certain degree recipients of contextual/cultural influences, depending on the ownership status of the hotel. It is also argued that managerial work is shaped and exercised by a set of moderating factors, which are unique for each individual. Overall, the aim of this research is to increase the level of awareness and trigger further research in this topic area. © 2014 Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC

Transport and Reaction of Heavy Metals in Alaskan Fjord-Estuaries. Annual Report, July 1, 1978-June 30, 1979

Work in progress is summarized. Individual reports are presented on the following research, which has been completed: benthic flux and near bottom reactions of heavy metals in fjords; deep water exchange in Alaskan sub-arctic fjords; sediment-seawater exchanges of nitrogen and transition metals in an Alaskan fjord; deep water renewals in Resurrection Bay, Alaska; the behavior of iron, manganese, and zinc in a heavily polluted river-estuary system. Six cruise reports for 1978 to 1979 are included, as is a list of reports and publications for the period 1975 through 1979

Deep water renewals in resurrection Bay Alaska

Resurrection Bay, a fjord estuary on the south-central Alaskan coastline is approximately 30 km in length and 4.5 km in width. An inner basin (290 m) is separated from the outer fjord and the continental shelf of the Gulf of Alaska by a sill at 185 m. Hydrographic data were obtained from five stations along the length of the fjord at approximately monthly intervals during 1973 to 1975. During 1973 current meters were installed in the inner basin at depths of 46, 93, 185, and 286 m during March to May, and again during September to October. Two stations were selected to represent oceanographic conditions in the inner fjord (Res-2.5) and adjacent marine source waters (Res-4). Data discussed relate to these two stations