Cultivating Personal and Organizational Effectiveness

Spiritual Insights from African Proverbs

By (author) Chiku Malunga

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Publication date:

14 December 2012

Length of book:

136 pages

Publisher

UPA

ISBN-13: 9780761860297

Cultivating Personal and Organizational Effectiveness presents a holistic understanding of personal and organizational development. It builds on the African concept of personhood and community known as ubuntu and draws on insights from the wisdom contained in African proverbs. Malunga shows that the human spirit is the missing link or ingredient in most change efforts and initiatives. Most individuals and organizations are not able to surface, identify, and confront their shadows to enable lasting transformation because they do not go deep enough to touch and unleash the human spirit. Cultivating Personal and Organizational Effectiveness aims to raise the consciousness of the significance of the human spirit in personal and organizational development. The book discusses the concept and indispensability of the human spirit, the stages of spiritual development, ways to cultivate the human spirit, and the place of the human spirit in personal and organizational effectiveness.

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: The Human Spirit in Personal and Organizational Development
Chapter 2: Work and the Human Spirit
Chapter 3: Understanding the Human Spirit
Chapter 4: Being, Doing, and Relationship
Chapter 5: Spiritual Power
Chapter 6: Stages of Spiritual Development
Chapter 7: Attaining Balance
Chapter 8: Spiritual Practices and Disciplines
Chapter 9: African Proverbs for Personal and Organizational Effectiveness
Chapter 10: The Case for Cultivating the Human Spirit
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

A unique and significant contribution to the field of personal and organization development from Africa.