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Spiritual Hr

Objective of the Research
To study organisations which have implemented spirituality in their organisational culture.
To discover how spirituality has made a difference in the life of the employees of the organisation.

Introduction
We are entering uncharted waters, a new world. The old rules and structures don’t work as well as they used to. We are in the midst of a change of consciousness of what organizations are all about.
The wave of corporate scandals Martha Stewart, Enron, WorldCom, and the recent scandals of Satyam, Lehman Brothers has further corroded the corporate world’s ethical core.
There is a general awareness, unfortunately not often put in to practice, that treating employees decently makes better workers. So why aren’t we using this knowledge more? The reason was given by a Pratt & Whitney manager, who described the problem as: "Our structure has not caught up with our consciousness."We instead fall back on the traditional way of management--top-down, hierarchical, more vertical than horizontal, and characterized by control. But in current times of cut-throat international competition, globalization, transformation of whole industries from the information age, and the reduced product cycle-time a more organic, fluid and horizontally-oriented structure works best.
Most of the moves from the old management to the new involve changing to a more spiritual foundation. For many managers and management theorists, this is a new way of looking at things. Yet once we open our minds to the perspective of spirituality, it becomes very clear: all the new management concepts that fall under the umbrella of "new management" are, at their core, outward manifestations of managers acting with love and spirit. They are a set of behaviours, attitudes, decisions, and policies that reflect the organization’s spiritual essence. They are the workplace versions of spiritual virtues.

References
http://www.marcic.com/articles/hospitable_human_spirit.htm...