ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the spiritual perspective in organizations and organizational theory, includes implications for the work lives of faculty, administrators, and staff. The implications of spirituality, interrelationships, leadership, power, and vision in the context of higher education institutions are explored. The spiritual perspective lends a unique understanding to organizations, including higher education institutions. The purposes of higher education encompass the fulfillment of human potential, social justice, and social change. Interrelationships are another aspect of organizations to which the spiritual model lends insights and understanding. Organizational members operating from a spiritual perspective recognize the interconnectedness of organizations, their processes, and the people within them. The organizational spirituality movement places equity and justice as values upon which institutional behavior, policy, and leadership is based. A powerful aspect of the spiritual perspective is its critique on the nearly normative use of bureaucracy in organizations, including higher education.
