Spirituality and Work: How Your Spirituality Shapes Your Work and Life

This book highlights the importance of mental and spiritual well-being in the workplace, especially within the hospitality and tourism indus - try. In today’s competitive global market, organizational success can - not be measured solely by financial performance. Instead, it must also consider human values such as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, humility, and self-control. These qualities are seen not as management techniques, but as essential aspects of a healthy and meaningful work environment.

Part I of the book focuses on the Spirituality of Work. It addresses the modern mental health crisis, linking it to boring and meaningless jobs. The tourism industry is used as a case study, being the largest global employer.

Part II explores the theme of Spirituality and Happiness. It discusses how spirituality has evolved beyond religious institutions and now in - cludes secular and even atheistic perspectives.

Part III develops a specific Spirituality for Hospitality Professionals. It traces the roots of hospitality from its religious origins to its modern, commercialized form. The book emphasizes the idea of hospitality as “emotion work,” distinct from knowledge-based labor.

Ultimately, the book aims not only for commercial relevance but for a deeper purpose: to enhance the mental and spiritual health of those who serve—and those who are served—in work.

About Author:
James J. Spillane, SJ was born at Brighton, Massachusetts, United States of America on 25 January, 1943. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1964 and was ordained a priest in May, 1976. His assignments in the Jesuits have been mainly in university teaching including assignments in Iraq, Jamaica, Iran, Colombia, Tanzania [11 years] and currently Indonesia [48 years]. He became an Indonesian citizen on October 4, 1996.
While in Indonesia he was joint Professor of Economics at Sanata Dharma University and Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta. He is currently the director of the Sanata Dharma Center for Tourism & Hospitality Research. During 2009–2020, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration at St. Augustine University of Tanzania in Mwanza, Tanzania. He was also Head of the Tourism & Hospitality Management Department when he taught there. He was Editor-in-Chief of The Eastern African Journal of Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism. He returned to Sanata Dharma University in August, 2020.
During the summer of 2024, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Ignatian Spirituality at Boston College.
He received his B.S. and M.A. in Mathematics from Boston College (1964 and 1966), his Ph.D. in International Economics from New York University (1972) and his M. Div. from the Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass. USA (1976).
Jumlah Halaman : 162
Tanggal Terbit : 29 Okt 2025
ISBN : 9786020683713
Penerbit : GPU
Berat : 182 gr
Lebar : 14 cm
Panjang : 21 cm