Development of Civil Service Workplace Spirituality in Taiwan: Current Training Courses
Chun-Ta Lee*
Abstract
Many scholars specialized in public administration and management have pointed out that the spiritual leadership and workplace spirituality (WS) are inevitable orientations for public sector reform. Moreover, the spirituality of public service must be considered and evaluated during the recruitment process and spiritual development has to be integrated into training and education. This article first defines the scope and concept of WS and then analyzes whether the idea of WS exists in the current training courses provided by the National Academy of Civil Service and the Civil Service Development Institute in Taiwan. The results show that the overwhelming majority of civil service training courses emphasize the importance of core
competence, but ignore the enhancement of WS. In addition to courses on public service ethics, which focus on teaching trainees the “whats.” programs with greater emphasis on WS ought to be provided to foster selfawakening
among public servants on the “whys.”
Keywords: spirituality, workplace, human resource, training
* Ph. D. Candidate, Department of Public Administration and Policy, National Taipei University.
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