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A new era of reorganizing with compassion?

In our ever evolving society, organizations need to change and adapt to new changes and/or problems very quickly and efficiently. This can lead to negativity and confusion within an organization. As human consciousness is evolving worldwide, should change management and communication should evolve subsequently? That is when Spiritual Leadership comes in hand, another global trend experienced by the business world. More and more Universities are offering courses in this field, books are being published and experts are becoming known.

It really is this simple, the better the wellbeing of employees, the better their work and productivity. Corporative leadership/spiritual leadership is focused on the performance of employees, but it is not the final goal. The biggest goal is the well-being of employees through which good performance comes naturally. (Paul de Blot, 2007) These trends lead to the following  question:

Spiritual leadership VS Traditional leadership during a reorganization, your thoughts!

 ·           Spiritual leadership:

 corporative leadership, leading with compassion, collective leadership = focused on the performance of employees, but it is not the final goal. The biggest goal is the well-being of employees through which good performance comes naturally     

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To me it is not really clear what you mean with the term spiritual leadership? Does this mean that corporative leadership and spiritual leadership share the same meaning? If I think of corporate leadership it is more directed at ultimate success and managing effectively. I'm happy to discuss some more but I'm not totally sure about what spiritual leadership means.

kyliebrons(14) Clarified
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Thank you for your comment. To clarify, spiritual leadership takes the wellbeing of employees into acctount. It actually values employees as its most important assets. The vision is that when employees are well their productivity appears to be much higher.. Especially during reorganizations, well-being of employees is relevant.. Most of the time they are in fear of losing their job / change of salary and so on.. A reorganization mostly shows a decrease in productivity of employees and they show resistance.. What I am very much interested in is your vision as to what you think about this style of leading with compassion, coroporative, transparant and open.. Especially in relation a reorganization.

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Spiritual leadership is vital at a time where we are entering an 'employee power' era, where the traditional business practise of a hierarchy determining employee importance and value is becoming an outdated school of thought. Creating a cohesive and equal environment where all employees feel valued, understood, and are dealt with compassion is of paramount importance. Spiritual leadership can be understood as employee recognition. Simply put, recognizing the wellbeing as well as the performance of the employee instils employee feelings of satisfaction that can only have positive effects on productivity and cohesion.

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Spiritual leadership is very important during a reorganisation because of the fact when people need to change behaviour money isn't the biggest key. people are not going to change faster if they get more money, some human things that are not money minded are very important as well.

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For me it's also not completely clear what is meant with spiritual leadership. I do think that employees deliver better work if they are comfortable in their work space and feel appreciated. So that sounds to me as a better option than traditional leadership. However, I am not sure about the debate statement and therefore I don't know how to elaborate on the topic further..

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spiritual leadership can be defined as follows: spiritual leadership is corporative leadership as the spiritual power of the organization, to do business with compassion starts with ordering the self and care for the aspirations and wellbeing of others. (Paul de Blot, 2007) To simplify, spiritual leadership is leading with the cognitive mind and the heart or soul, which means leading with empathy.

Corporative leadership is focused on the performance of employees, but it is not the final goal. The biggest goal is the well-being of employees through which good performance comes naturally. (Paul de Blot, 2007)

Michiel(4) Disputed
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Do not fully agree , i cannot believe the goal is employee well being. Despite the fact that this is important the goal in most cases will be: good organizational performance, profit, continuity and so on. I agree that this can be reached by employees feeling comfortable and well in their organization. Its just the other way around compared to yout statement

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I think spiritual leadership has a long term vision. We experience all what the Anglo-American way of leading organizations brought us. To much risks and self-enrichement. In the current organizations managers doesn't have more knowledge or experiences then their employees, it is the other way around. So as a leader you have to create circumstances were your professionals can perform.

But if you need a change of behavior, 'the visible site of the Iceberg', you have to change attitude and culture, these are the non visible parts of the Iceberg. That's hard to do. But if you reflect on the behavior (the visible part), you can change the attitude and at the end the culture. According to Wout de Leeuwerk (1986) behavior is a function of IQ, EQ, SQ and the Environment were SQ stands for spiritual quotient. For a change you have to trigger the spiritual intelligence of your employees and that you can do as a spiritual leader.

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I agree that the world of ‘doing business’ is changing fast. Organizations need to be agile and able to respond quickly to changes. To keep your employees motivated DMU’s need to realize that the traditional ‘waterfall-model’ is obsolete. Managers need to become coaches instead of bosses.

Acting as a coach is in a lot of industries/kinds of organizations possible. However it is of less importance in traditional “pots and pans” type of companies. Those employees are there to produce and their possibilities to add value is very limited.

In the types of organisations in with the knowledge of the employees is the dominant production factor coaching and (so you will) Spiritual Leadership is helping DMU’s to bring stability and commitment throughout the company.

Trying to involve your employees in all aspects of the Spirital Leadership model as stated on the website: http://iispiritualleadership.com/spiritual-leadership-theory/ is in my opinion only applicable on a small section of companies. (for example: governmental and non-profit)

You have to bear in mind that corporate identities/cultures are not so easy to bend. (without consequences.

PeterF(3) Clarified
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If you create small work units it can be used in large compagnies. Remember the BSO model from Eckhart Wintzen.

Michiel(4) Disputed
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Depends i think. You have to ensure that this kind of leadership is executed within the small organisational units. On management level this can be the goal but ensuring that this way of operating is executed on the lower departemental levels is not that simple, Think also about conformity between the different and smaller oraganizational units

Michiel(4) Disputed
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So you're saying the less intelligent the workers are , the less the effectivity of spiritual leadership ?? Don't agree on this one. Many workers do not lack intelligence , they just act in lower organizational roles. Thats often the real difference. I mean that these guys have IQ enough to receive the positive influence of SL

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It really is this simple, the better the wellbeing of employees, the better their work and productivity. Corporative leadership/spiritual leadership is focused on the performance of employees, but it is not the final goal. The biggest goal is the well-being of employees through which good performance comes naturally. (Paul de Blot, 2007) These trends lead to the following question:

Don't agree on the above text. The goal will always be a good performance which can be achieved by positively influencing the employees. It sounds too naive to target the employee well being as the goal.

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I think it is very important for employees to be guided through the process of change with compassion. It is very important during the change that the employees do not feel left out as they already feel out of balance and uncertain about the future. I do think that traditional leadership is still needed as well though, as people need someone to follow into the change.

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Spiritual leadership is very important. Times are changing and the way organizations treat people and the environment is becoming more and more important. Here are some points to why I think spiritual leadership is necessary:

- Spiritual leadership is necessary to create a strong and positive organizational culture. This will ultimately cause for higher productivity.

- Implementation of spiritual leadership might create a closer relationship and more trust between employee and employer. This in return leads to a lower staff turnover.

- I believe that especially organizations that are dependent on innovative and creative solutions require this type or leadership. Innovation and creativity is possible when there is high motivation and a degree of empowerment/freedom.

- Spiritual leadership is needed for successful organizational change. It helps employees understand and be enthusiastic about the change.

- When managing conflict this type of leadership can encourage team members to dialogue about the conflict and resolve it.

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"As human consciousness is evolving worldwide" ..... ha !! what a joke ... http://dadmansabode.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=760#p760 .... Since we have accepted the technology of the atom and have rejected the sermon on the mount .. we therefore now live in a society full of nuclear giants and ethical infants

"collective leadership" ???? ... occupy wall street tried this and failed ... mayaswell be hearding cats