Overview
- Expands on the work of Andre Delbecq (1936-2016; University of Santa Clara, USA) on spiritually and developmentally mature leadership
- Provides suggestions and tools for practitioners to aid in the development of spiritually and developmentally mature leaders in organizations
- Provides recommendations for future research, theory and program development
Part of the book series: Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership (MACHSTPOLE)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Spiritual Leadership
- Spiritual Maturity
- Mature Leadership
- Spiritual Intelligence
- Self-Awareness
- Commitment to the Greater Good
- Nominal Group Technique
- Transcendent Mystery
- Andre Delbecq
- Spiritual but Not Religious
- NVivo Qualitative Data Analysis
- Provalis Research Text Analytics
- Developmental Models of Leadership
- Heuristic
- faith, spirituality and business
About this book
Professor Andre Delbecq (1936-2016) of the University of Santa Clara created the heuristic of “spiritually and developmentally mature leaders” to encapsulate his observation that outstanding leaders often seemed to draw strength and wisdom from sources that are not typically studied or taught in leadership courses. Thirty scholars and practitioners accepted Delbecq’s heuristic as the starting point to explore spiritual components of leadership that do not easily lend themselves to quantification or clear causal links. The analysis of their disciplined engagement with the heuristic forms the foundation of an exploratory, fully human understanding of leadership. This analysis is supported by literature reviews, including an overview of Andre Delbecq’s relevant work. Ultimately, the authors call for further collaboration across disciplines and between research and practice to build on the conceptual constructs offered here, and, especially, to create pedagogies for the trainingof spiritually and developmentally mature leaders
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Lori Holyfield is a Professor of Sociology and Director of undergraduate studies for the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Arkansas. She is a qualitative methodologist and areas of specialization are sociology and culture and the sociology of emotions. She has served at the University of Arkansas since 1995.
Linda Jones is an Associate Professor of Language Specialtiesfor the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Arkansas. She is a qualitative and quantitative researcher and her areas of specialization are languages and technology, French Colonial Mississippi History, and Higher Education and Spirituality. She has served at the University of Arkansas since 1988.
Rhonda S. Ellis has been an inspiring educator for twenty years in higher education and a leadership coach/trainer and consultant for ten years. As a professor, her research focus has been workplace spirituality, job satisfaction, organizational culture, and organizational commitment; moreover, she conducts research within her coaching practice with the focus on communication and customer care, and individual and organizational transformation.
Judi Neal was the founding director of the Tyson Center for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace and has been researching, teaching and consulting in the field of workplace spirituality for 25 years. She is the author of five books in the field and is a founding editor of the Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion, and one of the founders of the “Management, Spirituality and Religion Interest Group” at the Academy of Management.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spiritually and Developmentally Mature Leadership
Book Subtitle: Towards an Expanded Understanding of Leadership in the 21st Century
Authors: Daniel E. Harris, Lori Holyfield, Linda Jones, Rhonda Ellis, Judi Neal
Series Title: Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11175-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-11174-8Published: 05 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-11175-5Published: 21 February 2019
Series ISSN: 2662-3080
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3099
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 265
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 56 illustrations in colour
Topics: Faith, Spirituality and Business, Business Strategy/Leadership, Spirituality