SPIRITUALITY AT WORK PLACE: A MACROSCOPIC SHIFT FROM BUSINESS TO ETHICS

Conversations about workplace spirituality are becoming more frequent, which is raising the awareness about ethical responsibility. There are intensifying questions about the appropriate definition for the S-word at work place. Some call it religious change, some diversity and others call a mode of marketing for spiritual gurus. However, the growth of workplace spirituality is widely based on one’s personal responsibility towards the building of a mechanistic work environment to enhance spiritual and mental growth. Spirituality needs to be practiced for development of ethical leaders at workplace. Walter Earl Flucker an expert in the theory and practice of ethical responsibility quoted in his work Spirituality, Ethics and Responsibility “Spirituality demands that leaders cultivate and nourish a sense of self that recognizes the interrelatedness of life or a sense of community”. The study has been designed with the perspective to analyse the rising importance of spirituality a