Osobní rozvoj, symbolická účinnost a holistické spirituality u vysoce postavených slovenských pracujících

• Authors: Zuzana Bártová

Title variants

EN

Personal development, symbolic efficacy and holistic spiritualities in high-ranking Slovak workers

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Using the concept of symbolic efficacy, the article analyses why the discourse and practices of personal development are considered effective. The article explores the experience of personal development practices interwoven with holistic spiritualities and the issues connected to the workplace. It is based on qualitative research conducted with Slovak workers between 2020 and 2022. While it draws on data from more than twenty semi-structured interviews, the analysis focuses on six individuals working in high-level management who actively engage in holistic spiritualities. It shows how they cultivate personal development practices together with lived religion, emphasising the holistic, self-aware, and authentic self that contributes to the development of the ethical self via self-care, ethical leadership and consumption and corporate social responsibility. These tools of personal development are in synch with the new spirit of capitalism, embracing artistic and social critique, while caring the risk of encouraging the over- -humanisation of the workplace.

Keywords

EN

sociology of work; new spirit of capitalism; upper-social classes; alternative spiritualities; lived religion; spirituality

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 112
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 265-288
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zuzana Bártová

• Český lid, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic