Can Spirituality in Leadership Create High-Performance Organizations?
Can Spirituality in Leadership Create High-Performance Organizations?
Rosetta Stevens | 2022
Abstract
Technology has changed the dynamics of the world significantly and electrified the marketplace and society. The rapid pace of technological advancement cultivates an environment of survival of the fittest in the business industry. To meet the demands of society and excel their competitors, organizations must move to become a prodigy of high performance. They must enhance their operation to achieve sustainability; likewise, it is vital to prepare for any unforeseen or unexpected disruption to the cultural norm.COVID-19 serves as the best paradigm for unexpected disruption to society and organizational habits in this era. It forcefully caused an abrupt cultural shift in communities, organizations, and businesses. The need for a culture shift in organizations made more prominent than ever before; leadership acumen has become the deciding factor for organizations’ success. Unexpected disruption summons leaders to execute skills essential to connecting and collaborating with followers to apply creative and innovative ideas to move the organization forward. Deploying a leadership style that produces expeditious results to transform an organization is necessary. Leaders must commit to developing high performers if they intend to create a high-performance organization successfully. Introducing a source that contains ingredients to form high performers is essential. Can the introduction of spirituality in leadership serve as the antidote to creating High-Performance Organizations (HPOs)? This document will illustrate that spirituality has proven valuable in many career paths and contains the necessary ingredients to champion leaders’ success. It will also demonstrate that introducing spirituality into leadership can cultivate high-performers with the potential to create a high-performance organization.
Keywords: Spirituality, Leaders, Leadership, and High-performance organizations (HPOs)