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What is Maintaining Stewardship

Chapter 2
Handbook of Research on Teaching Ethics in Business and Management Education
Spiritual managers understand that their management is held in trust as a stewardship for a temporary period, recognizing stewards do not have ownership of the means of production; steward-managers may propose plans, choices, and programs, but followers have an opportunity to consent before the actions taken are generally accepted; it involves trust, trusteeship, and accountability; a behavior pattern of service by communities and individual members who come to know what needs to be done and how it is to be done and then collectively do; co-ownership.
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Reinventing Management Training: How Spiritual Values Change the Practice of Modern Management and of Managerial Education
Matthew R. Fairholm (University of South Dakota, USA) and Gilbert W. Fairholm (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-510-6.ch002
Abstract
This chapter argues that today’s society renders traditional management practice incomplete. To better position managers in their organizations, they need to embrace and apply a spiritual connotation to the work they do. The task set forth in this chapter is to explore how management education and training needs to change to include a managerial mindset that accepts both the call to control and the need to be responsive to the spiritual side of both manager and employees. The chapter first describes traditional management theory and then applies a spiritual application to the traditional work of management. It describes new skills and activities needed to engage in spiritual management. With this new understanding, managers can prepare themselves to help workers be productive and useful while also helping them find meaning and personal fulfillment in the work.
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