The New Bottom Line: Bringing Heart & Soul to Business

Are people opposing the integration of spiritual values and universal principles in our workplaces because they are confusing spirituality with organized religion? This question inspired an open debate between management guru Tom Peters and the CEO of a publicly-traded corporation which was the genesis of this book. A collection of viewpoints, the book\u27s contributors include best-selling New Age authors Thomas Moore and Angeles Arrien, management authors Ken Blanchard and Ian Mitroff, The Body Shop founder and CEO Anita Roddick, and many more. It also includes a foreword by William George, Chairman and CEO of Medtronic, Inc.https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/alumni_books/1108/thumbnail.jp

Invoking spirits in the material world: Spiritualism, surrealism, and spirituality at work

This paper considers the recent upsurge of interest in workplace spirituality through an analysis of three cultural movements – late nineteenth century spiritualism, early twentieth century surrealism, and late twentieth/early twenty-first century 'spirituality at work'. These movements share a common interest in harnessing the power of the human spirit in the transformation and 'betterment' of social life. It is argued that these movements have successively adopted and de-radicalised invocations of the spirit world such that the proto-feminism and utopianism of spiritualism and the revolutionary pretensions of surrealism have been usurped by a strongly managerialist discourse of workplace spirituality. The paper ends with a consideration of the implications of these developments for the critical study of spirituality, management and organisation