ESPIRITUALIDADE EM AMBIENTE CORPORATIVO: COMUNIDADE, SENTIDO E INTEGRALIDADE COMO HORIZONTES DE UMA ESPIRITUALIDADE LAICA

Abstract

This dissertation proposes to reflect the theme of spirituality in corporations, on the assumption that religion in modernity has diluted itself in different institutional expressions and over time has dispersed over wide areas of culture, also reaching corporate organizations. In this sense, it initially seeks to present the state of the art around the theme "spirituality in the corporate world," considering the difference between religion and spirituality, in dialogue with religion theorists and militant movements that attempt to think of spirituality as a human dimension - not in a proselyte way but secular - and discusses the key assumptions that guide the "movement." The second phase has as objective, through a case study in the context of the company Telemasters, to perceive the understanding of its employees about the spirituality theme in its branches. The questionnaire, of qualitative and quantitative nature, is guided from three analysis categories, namely: "sense of community", "meaning of life" and "sense of completeness". Finally, it discusses the data collected by the research, considering the analysis categories and in dialogue with the contributions of some authors, which so far, haven’t been exploited by the spirituality movement in the corporate world, such as Harvey Cox, Charles Taylor, Martin Buber, Zygmunt Bauman, Martin Heidegger, Viktor Frankl, Alfonso Garcia Rubio, and Leonardo Boff. These authors contribute to propose a humanizing corporate management, which is able to identify the ideal of community, work as a source of meaning, and human integration as the best expression of a secular spirituality, based on the conscious human sacralization.