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Inclusive Leadership and Workplace Hyper-Spirituality

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This chapter is an integrative attempt to delve deeper into inclusive leadership theory and the state of workplace spirituality. The theoretical parameters are set as bookends between a post-Maslow and post-Hollander analysis applied to the pragmatic realities of workplace spirituality and fulfillment. This study is an attempt to fill the empirical void in measuring workplace spirituality and inclusive leadership from an organization perspective, specifically applied to faith-based private religious institutions of higher education. The results of the author’s benchmark qualitative research study identified a new phenomenon in the working environment not previously contextualized in the field of inclusive leadership: workplace hyper-spirituality and a sense of meaningfulness/transcendence.

Prelude to Inclusive Leadership: An interview with Edwin P. Hollander

Note: this interview was conducted on June 19, 2017 at Dr. Hollander’s apartment in Manhattan in relationship to a foreword he was writing for another inclusive leadership book (see: Boitano, Dutra & Schockman (eds) Breaking the Zero-Sum Game: Transforming Societies Through Inclusive Leadership (2017). What follows are not direct quotes, but rather an interpretation and paraphrasing of his main points.

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  1. Center for Leadership, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA, USA

    H. Eric Schockman

  2. Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Kerri Heath & Sonya Sharififard

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  1. Woodbury University , North Hills, California, USA

    Satinder Dhiman

  2. Regent University , Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA

    Gary Roberts

  3. University of South Australia , Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    Joanna Crossman

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Schockman, H., Heath, K., Sharififard, S. (2018). Inclusive Leadership and Workplace Hyper-Spirituality. In: Dhiman, S., Roberts, G., Crossman, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Spirituality and Fulfillment. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61929-3_29-1

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