Spirituality in Business: A Change in Perspective from Maximization to Sufficiency

Abstract: This article provides a novel viewpoint on how contentment could be incorporated in corporate philosophy for being spiritual while functioning in a materialistic world. Spirituality has been viewed in this article as joyfulness or a state of true happiness arising out of contentment. A discussion on how this meaning of spirituality could go along with various perspectives of spirituality in businesses and how it could do away with various caveats of bringing spirituality into a business as laid out in existing literature has been done. It has been concluded that spirituality can coexist with materiality in business organizations by changing the perspective of the corporate mind from maximization to sufficiency where sufficiency in the present time may be determined on the basis of future requirements of sustainability. People toil day and night in search of happiness but are seldom happy. A moderation in viewpoint from maximization to sufficiency or contentment both in personal and professional lives could result in joyfulness and make life easy for everyone in the society.

business sustainability, contentment, happiness, joy, sufficiency, workplace spirituality

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