The Emerging Role of Mindfulness Research in the Workplace and its Challenges

摘要

This paper focuses on the current state of art in mindfulness research on workplace and identi-fies some of the necessary steps and risks in the creation of mindful leadership theory. Mind-fulness has the potential to effectively address three topical organizational challenges of grow-ing demands on adaptability, prevailing issues of work-related stress and the necessity to raise the moral level in organizations. Current studies seem to suitably respond to the issues of work-related stress; however, the challenges of adaptability and morality so far lack appropri-ate empirical validation. Lack of empirical support is also noticeable in the case of mindful leadership theory as most studies still focus solely on individual leader development. Howev-er, it is important to start to discuss the suitable core variables of mindful leadership now as a clear differentiation from other leadership approaches like authentic leadership will be crucial for successful creation of mindful leadership theory. This paper also presents recommenda-tions for entrepreneurs and managers willing to incorporate mindfulness into their organiza-tional settings.