What is it about?
Spiritual leadership theory has become influential in recent years. Business organizations have seen this as a way of capturing not just the minds and hearts of their employees, but also their spirits. This instrumentalism has rightly been criticised. However, the danger is we are burning a straw man and, in so doing, 'lose' the unique insights from Jesus. We offer four examples: embracing work as a calling rather than a job, thinking theologically rather than materially, maintaining ethical purpose rather than bowing to market pressure and being transformed internally rather than regulated externally.
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Why is it important?
Reflecting on the person and teachings of Jesus, we see how they speak incisively across the centuries. Perhaps surprisingly Jesus calls for radical non-conformity.
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Of all my publications, this is the one I most enjoyed. In it, with my colleagues, I have brought my professional experience and training as a social-psychologist together with my appreciation of Christian scripture over the 40 years of my career.
Professor chris mabey
Middlesex University Business School
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This page is a summary of: Having Burned the Straw Man of Christian Spiritual Leadership, what can We Learn from Jesus About Leading Ethically?, Journal of Business Ethics, February 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-016-3054-5.
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