Spirituality In Workplace

In a culturally diverse country like the United States, healthcare professionals such as nurses will work with people of different cultural backgrounds who have different view of health and illness. Mcgoldrick, Giordano & Preto (2006) concluded that a sense of well-being in terms of physical and mental health within a societal context is strongly affected by cultural identity. Shared values, behaviors, beliefs and ethno-cultural attitudes of a community influence life experiences and decision we make (Yolanda & Griselda, 2006). With this in mind, it is essential for the nurses recognize the importance patients’ cultural values rooted in their health seeking behaviors.

23). A distinctive strength of CMOP-E is that it is the first framework to acknowledge spirituality in human occupation and recognises people’s intrinsic values, beliefs and goals. Spirituality refers to the essence of self and the place where self-determination and meaning are drawn (CAOT, 1997, p. 183). Samir’s spirituality stems from participating and engaging in sporting activities. He describes himself as an excellent sprinter who is very involved in

Marissa Mayer is the CEO of Yahoo Incorporated, the juggernaut technology company. Mayer receives both praise and ridicule not only for becoming the first female CEO of the said company, but for the groundbreaking decisions made since appointed to that position. Mayer made headline news in February of 2013, mere months after being appointed to head of the multinational corporation; she discontinued employees’ freedom to work from their own homes. The main reason for the change was her desire for all employees to work in close proximity to one another. “Mayer has said she wants Yahoo to move more quickly, with teams focusing on collaboration and communication. Clearly, Mayer thinks it’s hard to make those connections when working remotely” (Pepitone, 2013). It seems as if Mayer took a page right from Kerry Patterson’s book Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change.

The word ‘team’ can be defined as a group of people working together towards a common goal. A team also generally is known as a group of people with different skills and different tasks, who works together on a common project, services, or goal. Then, the important thing in teamwork is ‘collaboration’, which is the act of working effectively with others to achieve a common goal. Collaboration acts as the lifeblood in the team, even the team is not large enough, but the collaboration is required.

Spiritual histories are taken as part of the regular history during an annual exam or new patient visit, but can also be taken as part of follow-up visits, as appropriate. The acronym FICA, F- faith and belief, I-importance and influence, C-community, and A-address (The George Washington Institue of Spirituality and Health, n.d.). FICA Spiritual Assessment Tool serves as a guide for conversations in the clinical setting. This paper will analyze the interview assessment of a fellow coworker.

Preliminary Thesis Statement: Religion is an essential constituent of any civilization with a unique spiritual pathway.

I attended an open sexaholics anonymous meeting. There was a moderator who decided on the schedule for the meeting. The group started as the moderator introduced the meeting as sexaholics anonymous. Next we said a prayer and then preceded to read from the sexaholics addiction book. Everyone that wanted to read had the opportunity and if someone was not interested in reading they said “pass”. After reading from the book we went around the room and introduced ourselves by first names only. Some people said “Hi, my name is (fill in name) and I am a sexaholic” while others preferred to just say their name. After the stating of the names there was opportunity for people to share if they wanted to. The meeting lasted about an hour. There were no

The dictionary definition of teamwork is: 'the process of working collaboratively with a group of people to achieve a common goal. '

Team leadership encompasses many things. It may seem like a simple and small task, but in a real sense, it is complex and comes with responsibilities, and commonly, it determines the success of any team or a group. However, the value of teamwork should not be overemphasized considering that all organizations need individuals and personnel who are willing to share ideas, listen to others and contribute to the problem solving of any given group or a company. Team leaders should have the ability, authority, and power to analyze data and information with a team of people with a common aim and objective as well as issues. The leader should understand the dynamic patterns, the connections and relations between paramount factors in these objectives, aims and issues that help in the analysis process. On the same note, a team leader should be efficient and effective in the provision of guidance, instructions, direction and leadership to his or her team for

As told by Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, “In the course of my experience working with CEOs and their teams, two critical truths have become clear to me. First, genuine teamwork in most organizations remains as elusive as it has ever been. Second, organizations fail to achieve teamwork because hey unknowingly fall prey to five natural but dangerous pitfalls, which I call the five dysfunctions of a team” (Lencioni, 187). Lencioni is an expert when it comes to building a company that thrives on teamwork. A quick overview of Lencioni, “Pat is the founder of The Table Group and the author of 10 books which have sold over 4 million copies and been translated into more than 25 languages”.

We are experts in dealing with getting our imported products in the hand of customers directly. The teamwork in the workplace is essential to the success of business. When the team work together, we understand the strength and weakness of each team member. It mainly depends on the team leader in dividing up the tasks and getting things done by through the qualified members. Delegation of responsibilities has been practising in each team. Human Resource Department recruits the potential employees and trains the staffs to engage their commitment in achieving targets. The well-trained and competent work group and team carry out and complete the sales target that is set weekly/ monthly by management that is tailored to generate more revenue.

The following essay will approach the workplace philosophies of Howard Gardner and Mike Rose and attempt to apply them to real-world work-related problems and situations. First, before proceeding any further, it is necessary to provide a brief overview of the basic. Gardner, in his book Five Minds for the Future, identifies five mind that people can apply to their jobs and their work environments: the disciplinary mind, the synthesizing mind, the creating mind, the respectful mind, and the ethical mind (Gardner 3). For the creating mind, as Mike Rose redefines the intelligence in his book The Mind at Work, he believes the blue-collar workers are as creative as other white-collars. Besides the creative mind related to the physical workers, Mike

“Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good has been aptly described as that which everything aims. But it is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are activities, while others are products which are additional to the activities. In cases where there are ends additional to the actions, the products are by their nature better than activities.” (Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics, as translated by Crisp, 2000, p. #3)

Teamwork in the workplace gives the company and employees the ability to become more familiar with each other and learn how to work together. Teamwork is also essential to the success of an organisation and to the development of each employee. Understanding teamwork will assist in developing company's policies with regards to teamwork in the workplace.

Some of the empirical studies provide the clues for relation of organizational performance with variables included in our key construct of spirituality in a work organization. Fortune magazine in its analysis of ‘Best Places to Work’ in the US, though it does not use the word spirituality, writes that these are places where people find a purpose to work other than their pay cheques (Colving 2006). Nur (2003) found in his study that organizations managed by spiritual values (MBV’s) earned better returns within a period of five years. Meta-analysis by Dent et al. (2005) showed the positive association of spirituality with productivity. The effect of spirituality at the workplace can spill over into employees’ home life, marriage, social interaction, and so on, which in turn, positively affects their work performance (Bromet et al. 1990; Jurkiewicz and Giacalone 2004). Marques (2005) suggest that spirituality results in a unified pleasant performance and quality orientation of the workforce which in turn results in excellent output and community orientation. The literature correlating workplace spirituality related factors with performance can be shown to converge into three areas; motivation, commitment and adaptability (Jurkiewicz and Giacalone