{"id":475,"date":"2009-11-03T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.wpdude.com\/test\/?p=475"},"modified":"2009-11-03T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T09:36:00","slug":"spirtuality-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/11\/spirtuality-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirtuality at Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_8vF1TTyV5ww\/Su_66Uyv1qI\/AAAAAAAAByk\/rZ1T_iruaLA\/s1600-h\/Lynne_Sedgemore.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399810358161430178\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 192px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 250px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_8vF1TTyV5ww\/Su_66Uyv1qI\/AAAAAAAAByk\/rZ1T_iruaLA\/s400\/Lynne_Sedgemore.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centreforexcellence.org.uk\/UsersDoc\/LivingSpiritualityWorkplace.pdf\">a readable and well researched paper on spirituality at work <\/a>by Lynne Sedgemore (pictured). <\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Organisational spirituality is a relatively new field of enquiry, and as yet there is there is little consensus about what it constitutes. The following definitions, however, were considered to be helpful in relation to a non faith-based organisation:<\/div>\n<div><em>\u201cWorkplace spirituality is a framework of organisational values evidenced in the culture that promotes employees\u2019 experience of transcendence through the work process, facilitating their<br \/>sense of being connected to others in a way that provides feelings of completeness and joy.\u201d<\/em><br \/>Giacalone and Jurkievicz, 2003<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><em>\u201cRecognition of an inner life that nourishes and is nourished by meaningful work that takes<br \/>place in the context of community.\u201c<br \/><\/em>Ashmos and Duchon, 2000 <\/div>\n<div>Additionally, Pfeffer suggests that there are three elements valued by people at work:<\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a readable and well researched paper on spirituality at work by Lynne Sedgemore (pictured). &#8220;Organisational spirituality is a relatively new field of enquiry, and as yet there is there is little consensus about what it constitutes. The following definitions, however, were considered to be helpful in relation to a non faith-based organisation: \u201cWorkplace spirituality is a framework of organisational values evidenced in the culture that promotes employees\u2019 experience of transcendence through the work process, facilitating theirsense of being connected to others in a way that provides feelings of completeness and joy.\u201dGiacalone and Jurkievicz, 2003 \u201cRecognition of an inner life <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9xvDN-7F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}