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If spiritual well-being relates to a subjective sense of health and well-being one experiences within the workplace through expressing their spirituality in workplace work settings (Sheep 2006), then organizational initiatives for spiritual well-being are those strategies, practices, policies, procedures, spaces, and other activities which intentionally or actually enable others to experience or express their spiritual well-being in workplaces. Within the context of sustainable development, spiritual well-being at work has been connected to wider notions of good health and well-being, including stress, depression, anxiety and their knock-on consequential effects to suicide, and other sustainable development goals such as poverty and decent work.
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Spirituality can be understood in a pluralistic way, with varying conceptualizations through history and in different cultural contexts, and have included...
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Foster, S., Wall, T. (2019). Organizational Initiatives for Spiritual Well-Being. In: Leal Filho, W., Wall, T., Azeiteiro, U., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P. (eds) Good Health and Well-Being. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69627-0_94-1
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