Designing ethical organizations for spiritual growth and superior performance: an organization systems approach

Abstract

The emerging field of spirituality at work provides new energy to the well‐established field of business ethics and social responsibility by directing organizational leaders to achieve superior financial performance and productivity in harmony with ethical behavior and spiritual transcendence. This article provides a systematic model organizational leaders can implement to infuse ethics and spirituality throughout operations. The model recognizes that all employees are morally imperfect, and offers processes, practices, and structures that reinforce ethical behaviors and allow personal spirituality to flourish. The organization systems approach embraces the best practices for determining the ethics of job candidates, codes of ethics, ethical decision‐making, ethics and diversity training, ethics officers and hotlines, ethical leadership, ethical work goals and performance appraisals, environmental management, and community outreach. World peace and social justice requires the existence of ethical organizations that provide high‐quality goods and services and are places for spiritual growth and development.

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