Faculty Publications
Document Type
Conference
Keywords
Work-life balance, workplace spirituality, religion / faith, competitive advantage, demand-based approach, family / private businesses
Journal/Book/Conference Title
2021 Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference
Volume
52
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to detail how spirituality is a critical component to work/life balance and how individual and organizational spirituality impact operations management. Balancing key areas of work and professional life become an important part of creating happy and mutually satisfying relationships. We have identified six critical elements of life balance that lead towards optimized productivity (in no order of significance): Career, Family, Community, Spiritual, Health (includes sleep), Pleasure. Spirituality is one of the six components that must be defined, with a corresponding work and personal development plan, at an individual and organizational and operations management level.
Department
Department of Management
Original Publication Date
11-2021
Object Description
1 PDF file
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Date Digital
11-2021
Copyright
©2021 Dan Bumblauskas and Paul Bumblauskas
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Bumblauskas, Dan and Bumblauskas, Paul, "A Work/Life Teeter Totter: Using Demand Based Principles For Spiritual Operations Management" (2021). Faculty Publications. 2166.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facpub/2166
