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Papers by Judi Neal
Routledge eBooks, May 14, 2024
Inspiring Workplace Spirituality
Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2013
There are several leadership models that are generally not taught in business schools but are wid... more There are several leadership models that are generally not taught in business schools but are widely respected in the business community. For instance, the Servant Leadership model has been around for over 30 years, but almost never shows up in traditional management or leadership texts. Yet this model is in practice in organizations as large and well-known as Walmart.
Palgrave Macmillan eBooks, Dec 13, 2013
Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2013
Chapter 1 provided definitions of key terms in the field of spirituality in the workplace. This c... more Chapter 1 provided definitions of key terms in the field of spirituality in the workplace. This chapter provides a historical context that lays the groundwork for explaining why the interest in spirit at work is emerging now. This chapter reviews some of the theories of evolution of consciousness, and then provides a history of management theory and how it has evolved to the present day. The major trends that have led to the current interest in spirituality in the workplace are discussed, and a few research statistics are provided.
Over the past 20-plus years a thriving global community of people who are interested in spiritual... more Over the past 20-plus years a thriving global community of people who are interested in spirituality in the workplace has formed, and people find each other at conferences, workshops, and in discussion groups. Two groups of people are noticeably missing from most of these events. The first group missing are high-level organizational leaders—CEOs and their top staff. The second group are mid-level managers—the people within organizations who actually implement the policies, procedures, and programs that can help organizations to be more nurturing of the human spirit.
Springer eBooks, Nov 7, 2012
This chapter offers a view of what might be over the horizon for the field of faith and spiritual... more This chapter offers a view of what might be over the horizon for the field of faith and spirituality in the workplace and how we might contribute to heaven on earth. Utilizing Alan Lurie’s definition of spirituality, “the experience of a transformative connection” in Chap. 6, several possibilities for transformative connection are offered, including connecting faith and spirituality to sustainability, social justice, social entrepreneurship, spiritual capital, and the conscious capitalism movement. The chapter concludes with an invitation to explore spiritually based noetic ways of knowing in our research.
WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks, Aug 1, 2008
WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks, Aug 1, 2008
Choice Reviews Online, Jul 1, 2013
While the field of management has developed as a research discipline over the last century, until... more While the field of management has developed as a research discipline over the last century, until the early 1990s there was essentially no acknowledgement that the human spirit plays an important role in the workplace. Over the past twenty years, the tide has begun to turn, as evidenced by the growing number of courses in academia and in corporate training, and an exponential increase in the publications emerging through creative interaction of scholars and practitioners in organizational behaviour, workplace diversity, sustainability, innovation, corporate governance, leadership, and corporate wellness, as well as contributions by psychotherapists, theologians, anthropologists, educators, philosophers, and artists.
Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2013
Prophylaxis of Venous Thrombosis SIR,-We wish to rectify an omission in our paper (18 April, p.14... more Prophylaxis of Venous Thrombosis SIR,-We wish to rectify an omission in our paper (18 April, p.144) on dextran 70 in the prophylaxis of postoperative venous thrombosis. Dextran 70, although not an approved name, means a dextran fraction with a mean molecular weight of 70,000. Throughout our work on the antithrombotic properties of dextran, including the above study, we have used Macrodex, a 6% solution of dextran with a weight average molecular weight of 70,000 and of precisely defined molecular weight distribution. Macrodex is different from Rheomacrodex, which has a mean molecular weight of 40,000. Both these dextran fractions are manufactured by Pharmacia AB, Uppsala, and are distributed in Britain by Pharmacia (Great Britain), 75 Uxbridge Road, London W.5.-We are, etc.,
The purpose of this study is to explore faculty perceptions of Learning Organization characterist... more The purpose of this study is to explore faculty perceptions of Learning Organization characteristics in their universities, and the relationships of these perceived characteristics to faculty Internet usage. The study employs Senge’s (1990) definition of a Learning Organization: “an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.” One of the previous research studies by Fowler (1997), which combined qualitative and quantitative methods in an exploratory case study of one university library using interviews with librarians and technical staff, offered evidence that “organizational learning occurs through a series of vehicles that function at one or more of the levels identified: individual, department or team and organizational.” In addition, Fowler (1997) stated that use of the Internet, including the World Wide Web, was a significant variable that served as an outcome variable of his study; included were use of the Internet and Internet-related tasks. Research by Marchi (1999), which was done mostly in corporations, found that Learning Organizations use the Internet to a greater extent than Non-Learning Organizations. They also use Internet tools such as e-mail and World Wide Web differently than Non-Learning Organizations. In addition to relying on Marchi’s (1999) work, my study compares this relationship in the universities of two different countries: the United States and Thailand. Although there is one previous research study of Internet usage by Michels (1996) similar to this study, the sample was two-year colleges in the United States, and the research did not focus on Learning Organization theory. My research question is: Is there a relationship between business school faculty usage of the Internet and Learning Organization characteristics in the United States and Thailand Universities? Two research propositions are as follows: 1. Business school faculty who perceive higher levels of Learning Organization characteristics in their universities will also report higher amounts of Internet usage, more types of Internet Usage and more types of Internet work applications (teaching, research and consulting) than business school faculty who perceive lower levels of Learning Organization characteristics. 2. Overall, the United States business school faculty will report higher levels of Learning Organization characteristics and the greater amounts of Internet use, types of Internet use and types of Internet work applications (teaching, research and consulting) than Thai business school faculty. I conducted this study by distributing a questionnaire in both the United States and Thailand. Questionnaires were distributed to 1,000 faculty members in 200 business schools in the United States and 200 faculty members in 25 business schools in Thailand. There were 245 respondents in the United States and 99 respondents from Thailand. The Learning Organization portion of the survey was constructed from previously tested instruments. In this study, dependent variables that were measured included: amount of Internet usage; types of Internet usage; and work applications of Internet usage. The control variables included individual and organizational demographics. The main components of Learning Organizations that were assessed in the survey are leadership, culture, structures and processes, and managing people as assets. In a Learning Organization, these elements allow the members to share, work as a team, use interactive communication and allow information to flow. The more of these elements a company or university adheres to, the closer it will come to becoming a Learning Organization when combined with Learning Organization characteristics (Economist Intelligence Unit and IBM Corporation, 1996). The main findings of this study included: (1) there is a relationship between business school faculty usage of the Internet and Learning Organization characteristics in the United States and Thailand Universities in term of leadership, culture, and structure and process. (2) There was no significant relationship between Learning Organization characteristics and amount of hours spent on Internet usage. However, there was a significant positive relationship between Learning Organization characteristics in terms of leadership and more types of Internet usage; there were significant positive relationships between Learning Organization characteristics in terms of culture dimension and work applications for teaching and research, and in terms of structure and process dimension and work applications for consulting. (3) There was a significant difference in the mean of Learning Organization characteristics in leadership and structure and process dimension in terms of the United States business school faculty being lower than Thai business school faculty. In addition, the mean of Internet tools was lower while the mean of Internet usage for research for United States business school faculty was higher.…
Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2013
In some workplaces, you walk in and you can feel that something special is going on there. This h... more In some workplaces, you walk in and you can feel that something special is going on there. This happened the first time I visited the Honeywell Chandler Circuit Board Plant in Chandler, AZ. The employees were just coming out of an all-employee meeting and I could literally feel joyful, excited energy spill down the hallways as they went back to their work areas. This plant was an extraordinarily high-producing plant and it was a great place to work. There was something sacred going on there. You could almost touch it. When workplaces have this kind of energy, high-talent people are drawn to work there, and amazing breakthrough work gets accomplished. One of the ways to increase the organizational energy is through the creation of sacred space at work. By sacred space, I do not necessarily mean a solemn, church-like environment, but rather an environment full of life-giving energy, passion, delight, and awe. I’m talking about the kind of environment that nurtures people who see work as a spiritual path.
Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 2016
Creating Enlightened Organizations
In some workplaces, you walk in and you can feel that something special is going on there. This h... more In some workplaces, you walk in and you can feel that something special is going on there. This happened the first time I visited the Honeywell Chandler Circuit Board Plant in Chandler, AZ. The employees were just coming out of an all-employee meeting and I could literally feel joyful, excited energy spill down the hallways as they went back to their work areas. This plant was an extraordinarily high-producing plant and it was a great place to work. There was something sacred going on there. You could almost touch it. When workplaces have this kind of energy, high-talent people are drawn to work there, and amazing breakthrough work gets accomplished. One of the ways to increase the organizational energy is through the creation of sacred space at work. By sacred space, I do not necessarily mean a solemn, church-like environment, but rather an environment full of life-giving energy, passion, delight, and awe. I’m talking about the kind of environment that nurtures people who see work as a spiritual path.
International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning, 2003
ABSTRACT Even though many academics and practitioners around the world look to the USA for ideas ... more ABSTRACT Even though many academics and practitioners around the world look to the USA for ideas and mechanisms for the creation and adoption of new technologies, many related innovations are occurring in Asian countries, including Thailand. Using a sample of 99 faculty members drawn randomly from Thai business schools, we investigate ways in which the internet is used for teaching and research, as well as the individual and organisational factors associated with faculty adoption of the internet. We found that: the World Wide Web, e-mail and internet search engines are the three major aspects of the internet used in business schools in Thailand; several individual characteristics explain the degree to which faculty adopted the internet (namely, computer literacy, faculty attitude concerning the importance of the internet, the highest degree earned by faculty, and age); and organisational characteristics which affect internet use are: having computers in offices, information technology (IT) staff support, and reward systems. Implications for management and future research areas are discussed.
Routledge eBooks, May 14, 2024
Inspiring Workplace Spirituality
Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2013
There are several leadership models that are generally not taught in business schools but are wid... more There are several leadership models that are generally not taught in business schools but are widely respected in the business community. For instance, the Servant Leadership model has been around for over 30 years, but almost never shows up in traditional management or leadership texts. Yet this model is in practice in organizations as large and well-known as Walmart.
Palgrave Macmillan eBooks, Dec 13, 2013
Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2013
Chapter 1 provided definitions of key terms in the field of spirituality in the workplace. This c... more Chapter 1 provided definitions of key terms in the field of spirituality in the workplace. This chapter provides a historical context that lays the groundwork for explaining why the interest in spirit at work is emerging now. This chapter reviews some of the theories of evolution of consciousness, and then provides a history of management theory and how it has evolved to the present day. The major trends that have led to the current interest in spirituality in the workplace are discussed, and a few research statistics are provided.
Over the past 20-plus years a thriving global community of people who are interested in spiritual... more Over the past 20-plus years a thriving global community of people who are interested in spirituality in the workplace has formed, and people find each other at conferences, workshops, and in discussion groups. Two groups of people are noticeably missing from most of these events. The first group missing are high-level organizational leaders—CEOs and their top staff. The second group are mid-level managers—the people within organizations who actually implement the policies, procedures, and programs that can help organizations to be more nurturing of the human spirit.
Springer eBooks, Nov 7, 2012
This chapter offers a view of what might be over the horizon for the field of faith and spiritual... more This chapter offers a view of what might be over the horizon for the field of faith and spirituality in the workplace and how we might contribute to heaven on earth. Utilizing Alan Lurie’s definition of spirituality, “the experience of a transformative connection” in Chap. 6, several possibilities for transformative connection are offered, including connecting faith and spirituality to sustainability, social justice, social entrepreneurship, spiritual capital, and the conscious capitalism movement. The chapter concludes with an invitation to explore spiritually based noetic ways of knowing in our research.
WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks, Aug 1, 2008
WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks, Aug 1, 2008
Choice Reviews Online, Jul 1, 2013
While the field of management has developed as a research discipline over the last century, until... more While the field of management has developed as a research discipline over the last century, until the early 1990s there was essentially no acknowledgement that the human spirit plays an important role in the workplace. Over the past twenty years, the tide has begun to turn, as evidenced by the growing number of courses in academia and in corporate training, and an exponential increase in the publications emerging through creative interaction of scholars and practitioners in organizational behaviour, workplace diversity, sustainability, innovation, corporate governance, leadership, and corporate wellness, as well as contributions by psychotherapists, theologians, anthropologists, educators, philosophers, and artists.
Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2013
Prophylaxis of Venous Thrombosis SIR,-We wish to rectify an omission in our paper (18 April, p.14... more Prophylaxis of Venous Thrombosis SIR,-We wish to rectify an omission in our paper (18 April, p.144) on dextran 70 in the prophylaxis of postoperative venous thrombosis. Dextran 70, although not an approved name, means a dextran fraction with a mean molecular weight of 70,000. Throughout our work on the antithrombotic properties of dextran, including the above study, we have used Macrodex, a 6% solution of dextran with a weight average molecular weight of 70,000 and of precisely defined molecular weight distribution. Macrodex is different from Rheomacrodex, which has a mean molecular weight of 40,000. Both these dextran fractions are manufactured by Pharmacia AB, Uppsala, and are distributed in Britain by Pharmacia (Great Britain), 75 Uxbridge Road, London W.5.-We are, etc.,
The purpose of this study is to explore faculty perceptions of Learning Organization characterist... more The purpose of this study is to explore faculty perceptions of Learning Organization characteristics in their universities, and the relationships of these perceived characteristics to faculty Internet usage. The study employs Senge’s (1990) definition of a Learning Organization: “an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.” One of the previous research studies by Fowler (1997), which combined qualitative and quantitative methods in an exploratory case study of one university library using interviews with librarians and technical staff, offered evidence that “organizational learning occurs through a series of vehicles that function at one or more of the levels identified: individual, department or team and organizational.” In addition, Fowler (1997) stated that use of the Internet, including the World Wide Web, was a significant variable that served as an outcome variable of his study; included were use of the Internet and Internet-related tasks. Research by Marchi (1999), which was done mostly in corporations, found that Learning Organizations use the Internet to a greater extent than Non-Learning Organizations. They also use Internet tools such as e-mail and World Wide Web differently than Non-Learning Organizations. In addition to relying on Marchi’s (1999) work, my study compares this relationship in the universities of two different countries: the United States and Thailand. Although there is one previous research study of Internet usage by Michels (1996) similar to this study, the sample was two-year colleges in the United States, and the research did not focus on Learning Organization theory. My research question is: Is there a relationship between business school faculty usage of the Internet and Learning Organization characteristics in the United States and Thailand Universities? Two research propositions are as follows: 1. Business school faculty who perceive higher levels of Learning Organization characteristics in their universities will also report higher amounts of Internet usage, more types of Internet Usage and more types of Internet work applications (teaching, research and consulting) than business school faculty who perceive lower levels of Learning Organization characteristics. 2. Overall, the United States business school faculty will report higher levels of Learning Organization characteristics and the greater amounts of Internet use, types of Internet use and types of Internet work applications (teaching, research and consulting) than Thai business school faculty. I conducted this study by distributing a questionnaire in both the United States and Thailand. Questionnaires were distributed to 1,000 faculty members in 200 business schools in the United States and 200 faculty members in 25 business schools in Thailand. There were 245 respondents in the United States and 99 respondents from Thailand. The Learning Organization portion of the survey was constructed from previously tested instruments. In this study, dependent variables that were measured included: amount of Internet usage; types of Internet usage; and work applications of Internet usage. The control variables included individual and organizational demographics. The main components of Learning Organizations that were assessed in the survey are leadership, culture, structures and processes, and managing people as assets. In a Learning Organization, these elements allow the members to share, work as a team, use interactive communication and allow information to flow. The more of these elements a company or university adheres to, the closer it will come to becoming a Learning Organization when combined with Learning Organization characteristics (Economist Intelligence Unit and IBM Corporation, 1996). The main findings of this study included: (1) there is a relationship between business school faculty usage of the Internet and Learning Organization characteristics in the United States and Thailand Universities in term of leadership, culture, and structure and process. (2) There was no significant relationship between Learning Organization characteristics and amount of hours spent on Internet usage. However, there was a significant positive relationship between Learning Organization characteristics in terms of leadership and more types of Internet usage; there were significant positive relationships between Learning Organization characteristics in terms of culture dimension and work applications for teaching and research, and in terms of structure and process dimension and work applications for consulting. (3) There was a significant difference in the mean of Learning Organization characteristics in leadership and structure and process dimension in terms of the United States business school faculty being lower than Thai business school faculty. In addition, the mean of Internet tools was lower while the mean of Internet usage for research for United States business school faculty was higher.…
Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2013
In some workplaces, you walk in and you can feel that something special is going on there. This h... more In some workplaces, you walk in and you can feel that something special is going on there. This happened the first time I visited the Honeywell Chandler Circuit Board Plant in Chandler, AZ. The employees were just coming out of an all-employee meeting and I could literally feel joyful, excited energy spill down the hallways as they went back to their work areas. This plant was an extraordinarily high-producing plant and it was a great place to work. There was something sacred going on there. You could almost touch it. When workplaces have this kind of energy, high-talent people are drawn to work there, and amazing breakthrough work gets accomplished. One of the ways to increase the organizational energy is through the creation of sacred space at work. By sacred space, I do not necessarily mean a solemn, church-like environment, but rather an environment full of life-giving energy, passion, delight, and awe. I’m talking about the kind of environment that nurtures people who see work as a spiritual path.
Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 2016
Creating Enlightened Organizations
In some workplaces, you walk in and you can feel that something special is going on there. This h... more In some workplaces, you walk in and you can feel that something special is going on there. This happened the first time I visited the Honeywell Chandler Circuit Board Plant in Chandler, AZ. The employees were just coming out of an all-employee meeting and I could literally feel joyful, excited energy spill down the hallways as they went back to their work areas. This plant was an extraordinarily high-producing plant and it was a great place to work. There was something sacred going on there. You could almost touch it. When workplaces have this kind of energy, high-talent people are drawn to work there, and amazing breakthrough work gets accomplished. One of the ways to increase the organizational energy is through the creation of sacred space at work. By sacred space, I do not necessarily mean a solemn, church-like environment, but rather an environment full of life-giving energy, passion, delight, and awe. I’m talking about the kind of environment that nurtures people who see work as a spiritual path.
International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning, 2003
ABSTRACT Even though many academics and practitioners around the world look to the USA for ideas ... more ABSTRACT Even though many academics and practitioners around the world look to the USA for ideas and mechanisms for the creation and adoption of new technologies, many related innovations are occurring in Asian countries, including Thailand. Using a sample of 99 faculty members drawn randomly from Thai business schools, we investigate ways in which the internet is used for teaching and research, as well as the individual and organisational factors associated with faculty adoption of the internet. We found that: the World Wide Web, e-mail and internet search engines are the three major aspects of the internet used in business schools in Thailand; several individual characteristics explain the degree to which faculty adopted the internet (namely, computer literacy, faculty attitude concerning the importance of the internet, the highest degree earned by faculty, and age); and organisational characteristics which affect internet use are: having computers in offices, information technology (IT) staff support, and reward systems. Implications for management and future research areas are discussed.
This bibliography was commissioned by Fetzer Institute and compiled by Judi Neal, with input from... more This bibliography was commissioned by Fetzer Institute and compiled by Judi Neal, with input from numerous colleagues around the world. The purpose of this bibliography is to list scholarly articles in the field of Workplace Spirituality that are seminal articles as well as current articles that report on personal and organizational outcomes of workplace spirituality. Other resources are included as well.
This list is intended to be useful to scholars, practitioners, and faculty.
The goal of this annotated bibliography is not to be a complete listing of every article or book that has ever been published in the field. Instead, every effort was made to select references that have been frequently cited or have contributed to the field of workplace spirituality in a significant way. This is intended to be a living document and new references will be added when they meet the criteria established for this project.
This is a collection of workplace spirituality references that I have been adding to over the yea... more This is a collection of workplace spirituality references that I have been adding to over the years. It is not complete because its impossible to keep up with all of the new publications, but it can be a valuable resource for researchers.