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11. Managing and Leading from a Maori Perspective: Bringing New Life and Energy to Organisations

Authors : Chellie Spiller, Monica Stockdale

Published in: Handbook of Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace

Publisher: Springer New York

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Attending to the life-energy of an organisation is an important, yet often overlooked aspect of management and leadership. Ignoring energy dimensions in an organisation can lead to dispirited, dysfunctional workplaces. In this chapter, we explore how nourishing different life-energies can revitalise relationships within the workplace and with communities to support organisational thriving. A central premise of this theoretical enquiry is that organisations which cultivate healthy, thriving life-energies offer added value for their stakeholders, including employees, customers, social and cultural communities, and the environment. We focus on indigenous Maori conceptualisations of life-energies and offer a series of touchstones, drawn from theory and our management and research experience, to guide sustainable business practice with the kaupapa, intention, of bringing new life and dignity into dispirited modern enterprise.

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There are many iwi (tribes), hapū (subtribes/clans) and whānau (extended families) of Aotearoa New Zealand who comprise the cultural grouping ‘Māori’. They are united as the tangata whenua, the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand, who have retained strong, thriving and dynamic tribal traditions despite the enormous impacts of colonisation from the 1800s.

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Title: Managing and Leading from a Maori Perspective: Bringing New Life and Energy to Organisations
Authors: Chellie Spiller
Monica Stockdale
Publisher: Springer New York
Book: Handbook of Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace
Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-5232-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4614-5233-1

Copyright Year: 2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5233-1_11

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