Spirit in business

Mindfulness and Finding Meaning in business world and society

Abstract

Mindfulness and questions of finding meaning in the business world have long since become a social issue on a broader basis. The current mindfulness trend also reflects numerous cultural needs that arise from a modern, above all rationally shaped performance culture, as it characterizes the lives of many working people. And so mindfulness has long since arrived in business. The Identity Foundation, a non-profit foundation for philosophy based in Düsseldorf, Germany, has conducted various studies to explore the relationship of the population to questions of spirituality and the search for meaning, as well as the special contexts that arise for managers in this field of human self-location. They provide an overview of 15 years of development of the cultural relevance of meditation and mind- fulness.