A systematic literature review of spiritual leadership within African management philosophies
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Authors
Sibanda, Khumbulani
Grobler, Anton
Issue Date
2024-04
Type
Article
Language
en
Keywords
African , Spiritual Leadership , African Management Philosophies , Leadership Models , Spiritual , Spirituality , Organisation , Employee Contentment
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Abstract
Orientation: Spiritual leadership has been proposed as an alternative to lead a generation where personal values and beliefs are central to employee contentment and organisational success.
Research purpose: To critically analyse organisational spiritual leadership (SpL) from an African Management Philosophies (AMP) perspective and whether these are secular or non-secular.
Motivation for the study: Knowledge would be drawn from two bodies of scholarly literature, namely SpL and AMP.
Research design, approach and method: Literature will be systematically reviewed, focusing on three aspects of the body on knowledge, namely concepts, definitions and typologies (elements).
Main findings: The concept of SpL seems empirically much more operationalised than AMP. Central to organisational spiritual leadership are the leader’s values, attitudes and behaviours that intrinsically motivate followers to have a sense of spiritual survival through membership and calling, while AMP emphasise traditionalism, communalism, co-operative teamwork and mythologies.
Practical/managerial implications: The research seeks to highlight the existing gaps in literature of a contextualised African measure of SpL.
Contribution or value add: A secular and non-secular approach to spirituality emerges, which looks at AMP as emboldened by Ubuntu ideality that is contrary to extant literature on organisational spiritual leadership.
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Citation
Sibanda, K., & Grobler, A. (2024). A systematic literature review of spiritual leadership within African management philosophies. Acta Commercii, 24(1), 11 pages. doi:https://doi.org/10.4102/ac.v24i1.1164