The Experiencing and Meaningfulness of Spirituality in the Leadership of Middle-Level Managers in Business Organizations

CC BY-NC-NDChanges in the scope of leadership in recent decades have led to the search for new management methods in relationships with subordinates. One of these methods is the application of spirituality in leadership. Although the construct of spiritual leadership has been of interest to researchers since the 1980s, previous research has focused on determining the impact of spiritual leadership on individual and organizational outcomes, but little has been done on research to identify and agree on the behaviors of a spiritual leader. Conceptualizing and defining spirituality and spiritual leadership is perhaps the most problematic and challenging task for the paradigmatic development of an emerging field. There is no commonly agreed definition of spiritual leadership or spirituality at work. The lack of a common definition and the unclear boundaries between workplace spirituality and leadership show that the field of spiritual leadership is still in development, and disputes over the difficulty of defining the construct have led many to question whether spiritual leadership and workplace spirituality deserve the attention they have received. Therefore, exposing the behavior of a spiritual leader is important for deepening the overall understanding of the concept of spiritual leadership