Understanding spiritual leadership in organizational contexts: the case of non-profit organization in Korea

摘要

This paper seeks to appreciate a systems-based philosophy, spiritual leadership and organizational spiritual leadership which can be explored through the reflexive research on practice for an alternative way to looking at organizational transformation from systems perspectives. Viable systems theory to understanding spiritual leadership is introduced and examined for the relationship of perception of organizational spiritual leadership and spiritual leadership in Korean contexts. It facilitates some sort of participative debate in which spirituality takes place during the decision-making process in organizations in which participants conceptualize as learning systems, and seeking to uncover the strategic planning of systemic designs for the involved participants. A detailed account of a case study of Korean non-profit organization is given to demonstrate how our proposed framework of understanding spiritual leadership is applied into practice. This paper claims that the participatory process of organizational learning is possible through practice of the spiritual leadership, which facilitates to the process of learning organizational culture in Korean contexts.