IIMS Journal of Management Science

  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 1

‘Way to Organisational Development’ – Interpreting the Role of Spirituality Using System Dynamics

Abstract

Ancient civilisations have sustainably contributed to the field of spirituality. Discussions on common platform and research in the area have been ongoing since ages. Yet lately, there has been a worldwide explosion of interest in the term ‘spirituality’. During the era of uncertain changes and turmoil, what many organisations are focusing on is ‘spirituality’. The paper aims to understand role of spirituality in organisational development. System dynamics has been used as a tool to study spirituality as an initiative in organisations. The paper is based on extensive literature review and provides a conceptual base and also shares the importance of spirituality. The paper also shares how spirituality contributes to organisational development by using causal loop diagrams. The paper describes the various spiritual techniques and elaborates its role in individual development as well as organisational development using system dynamics as a tool.

Keywords

Spirituality, System dynamics, Organisational development, Causal loop diagrams, Culture, Performance, Workplace