TY - JOUR
T1 - Addressing unintended ethical challenges of workplace mindfulness
T2 - a four-stage mindfulness development model
AU - Qiu, Jane X. J.
AU - Rooney, David
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - This study focuses on mindfulness programs in the corporate world, which are receiving increasing attention from business practitioners and organizational scholars. The workplace mindfulness literature is rapidly evolving, but most studies are oriented toward demonstrating the positive impacts of mindfulness as a state of mind. This study adopts a critical perspective to evaluate workplace mindfulness practice as a developmental process, with a focus on its potential risks that have ethical implications and are currently neglected by both researchers and practitioners. We draw from a Buddhist perspective that understands mindfulness training as an ethics-based, longitudinal, and holistic path. To this end, we develop a four-stage model to illustrate a potential developmental process for participants in workplace mindfulness programs. This model comprises four stages of preliminary concentration, deep concentration, self-transcendence, and reengagement, each of which has its own underlying characteristics and impacts on individual participants and organizations.
AB - This study focuses on mindfulness programs in the corporate world, which are receiving increasing attention from business practitioners and organizational scholars. The workplace mindfulness literature is rapidly evolving, but most studies are oriented toward demonstrating the positive impacts of mindfulness as a state of mind. This study adopts a critical perspective to evaluate workplace mindfulness practice as a developmental process, with a focus on its potential risks that have ethical implications and are currently neglected by both researchers and practitioners. We draw from a Buddhist perspective that understands mindfulness training as an ethics-based, longitudinal, and holistic path. To this end, we develop a four-stage model to illustrate a potential developmental process for participants in workplace mindfulness programs. This model comprises four stages of preliminary concentration, deep concentration, self-transcendence, and reengagement, each of which has its own underlying characteristics and impacts on individual participants and organizations.
KW - Buddhism
KW - Business ethics
KW - Mindfulness
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85029498810&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10551-017-3693-1
DO - 10.1007/s10551-017-3693-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85029498810
SN - 0167-4544
VL - 157
SP - 715
EP - 730
JO - Journal of Business Ethics
JF - Journal of Business Ethics
IS - 3
ER -