GoodWork Paper 41: Spirituality at Work (PDF)
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Author(s): Seth Wax
Editor(s): Jeff Solomon, Series Editor
Media: PDF
Description: Drawing on interviews with young and veteran professionals in a range of domains, I present four distinct models of how modern workers experience personalized spirituality at work: 1) sensing the presence of an impersonal higher force during a performance; 2) intuiting the mystery of the unknown through making discoveries; 3) envisioning a personal God who is active in all personal and occupational aspects of the believer‘s life; and 4) acknowledging a higher force as beyond one‘s immediate experience but supporting occupational activities. Model 1 is found exclusively in performing arts domains, namely theater and music, while Model 2 only in scientific research. The remaining two are found across a sample of business and social entrepreneurs, non-profit workers, and philanthropy professionals, which I classify as self-oriented domains. In this paper, I explore how these models are expressed and inform worker‘s conceptualizations of their work.
Author(s): Seth Wax
Editor(s): Jeff Solomon, Series Editor
Media: PDF
Description: Drawing on interviews with young and veteran professionals in a range of domains, I present four distinct models of how modern workers experience personalized spirituality at work: 1) sensing the presence of an impersonal higher force during a performance; 2) intuiting the mystery of the unknown through making discoveries; 3) envisioning a personal God who is active in all personal and occupational aspects of the believer‘s life; and 4) acknowledging a higher force as beyond one‘s immediate experience but supporting occupational activities. Model 1 is found exclusively in performing arts domains, namely theater and music, while Model 2 only in scientific research. The remaining two are found across a sample of business and social entrepreneurs, non-profit workers, and philanthropy professionals, which I classify as self-oriented domains. In this paper, I explore how these models are expressed and inform worker‘s conceptualizations of their work.
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