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Who Does “Spiritual” Modify? A Review of Ian I. Mitroff and Elizabeth Denton's A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America
Author(s) -
Mischel Kenneth
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
business and society review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1467-8594
pISSN - 0045-3609
DOI - 10.1111/0045-3609.00122
Subject(s) - audit , citation , sociology , psychology , management , law , political science , economics
Barbara’s performance at work was not up to snuff. What was to be done? A biblical response awaited the next morning, so Ian I. Mitroff and Elizabeth Denton inform us in A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America (Jossey-Bass, 1999), quoting a passage from William H. Nix’s Transforming Your Workplace for Christ. Barbara was not fired. Rather, her manager, taking Paul’s teachings as a model, warned, and sympathized with her. Working in a new part of the company today, Barbara is excelling. The ghost of Jacob Marley is sent to hover over Ebenezer Scrooge. His mission is to warn a former partner and friend that the main business of business is more than business. The mission of A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America is quite similar. The difference is only in the nature of the fictional person being warned—and instead of being authored by Dickens, the subject of the current warning is authored through the incorporation statutes of a state or nation. What afflicts Corporate America, like what afflicts the alcoholic, Mitroff and Denton believe, is a condition of spiritual impoverishment. Alcoholism was generally resistant to the treatment of psychologists, as the authors report in the name of Jung, because these experts, by refusing to see spirituality as a dimension of personal