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The Role of Embedded Individual Values, Belief and Attitudes and Spiritual Capital in Shaping Everyday Postsecular Organizational Culture
Author(s) -
Stokes Peter,
Baker Christopher,
Lichy Jessica
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
european management review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.784
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1740-4762
pISSN - 1740-4754
DOI - 10.1111/emre.12065
Subject(s) - sociology , dialectic , social capital , capital (architecture) , organizational culture , environmental ethics , social psychology , public relations , epistemology , social science , psychology , political science , philosophy , archaeology , history
This paper investigates the values, beliefs and attitudes ( VBA ) held by individual employees within business environments which motivate and shape behavior in the workplace, and the extent to which VBA reveal roots and drivers linked to spiritual capital (and associated capitals). Building on early authorial work ( B aker, S tokes, L ichy, A therton, 2011), and referring to literature from theology and religion, as well as business organization and management, the paper discusses the critical and dialectical relationship between different forms of capital (for example, social, human, economic), modernistic, ‘hard’ cultures and issues of managerialism and alternative critical, ‘soft’ frameworks and sources of ethics and values – and their impact on the business setting. It will do this primarily by proposing a new typological model showing the dynamic and potentially progressive interplay between spiritual, human, bridging and linking forms of social capital within corporate and public settings and explores their implications for management. This typological model is derived from original research using in‐depth semi‐structured interviews from three different organizations in North West E ngland and North Wales, to determine the extent to which notions of the postsecular and spiritual capital may operate in workplaces.