Spiritual Leadership involves intrinsically motivating and inspiring workers to hope/faith in a vision of service to key stakeholders and a corporate culture based on the value of altruistic love to produce a highly motivated, committed and productive workforce. The purpose of spiritual leadership is to tap into the fundamental needs of both leaders and followers for spiritual well-being. To create vision and value congruence across the individual, empowered team and organization levels, and ultimately to foster higher levels of employee well-being, organizational commitment, financial performance and social responsibility.
Spiritual leadership values:
Integrity/honesty
Freedom/independence
Fairness/equality/justice
Family
Love/caring/charity
Characteristic of spiritual leadership
Find and use the deepest inner resources from which come the capacity to care and power to tolerate and adapt
Develop a clear and stable sense of identity as an individual in the context of shifting workplace relationship
To be able to discern the real meaning of events and circumstances therefore be able to make work meaningful
Identify and align personal values with a clear sense of purpose
Live these values without compromise and thereby demonstrate integrity
Remove ego that is be able to work as a team whereby all individual are focus on increasing the productivity as a common purpose not only think about oneself
Usefulness
It will result in shaping organizations into generators of spiritual capital, that is, translating the paradigm of economic capital of materialism to a spiritual one, focusing on decent profit, common good and meaningful work.
It has impact not only on long-term profitability, that is, the Triple Bottom line approach-Profit, people and planet but also on short term pure financial profit.
It unleashes creativity and the core essence of employees. Creativity, being the key component in