Reflections Spring 2002 [antikvár]

From the Founding Editor I hope that by now our readers have learned that Reflections tries to be a coat of many colors. Most of our issues have evolved around themes, and these themes have usually arisen out of a critical mass of contributions that clearly hung together. We have also evolved themes because "they are in the air." For months now, we have noticed more and more articles, newspaper reports, books, and essays that deal with "spirituality," the role of religion in business, with values-driven management and other topics that imply that there must be more to life than work and there must be more to organizations than just fulfilling their primary task. Especially in business and industry, more and more people are experiencing a conflict between their day-to-day duties and the needs of their inner selves. Many people experience a genuine conflict between their deeper inner values and what the world of work requires of them. So our team swallowed hard and, with the enthusiastic leadership of Judy Rodgers, launched into an exploration of these issues. We found immediately that there are semantic problems. What does spirituality really mean? How is it connected to an issue that goes far back in history, the issue of spirit and its role as a motivator? In our many hours of discussion and reviewing candidates for papers, we could not resolve the semantic issue, so we have decided to forge ahead with a variety of viewpoints. The best way for readers to approach this topic is with a "spirit of inquiry." /7