Abstract
Mindfulness has rapidly become a significant subject area in many disciplines. Most of the work on mindfulness has focused on the perspective of health and healthcare professionals, but relatively less research is focused on the organizational outcomes at the workplace. This review presents a theoretical and practical trajectory of mindfulness by sequential integration of recent fragmented scholarly work on mindfulness at the workplace. The review showcases that most contemporary practical challenges in organizations, such as anxiety, stress, depression, creativity, motivation, leadership, relationships, teamwork, burnout, engagement, performance, well-being, and physical and psychological health, could be addressed successfully with the budding concept of mindfulness. The causative processes due to higher mindfulness that generate positive cognitive, emotional, physiological, and behavioral outcomes include focused attention, present moment awareness, non-judgmental acceptance, self-regulatory functions, lower mind wandering, lower habit automaticity, and self-determination. Employee mindfulness could be developed through various mindfulness interventions in order to improve different organizational requirements, such as psychological capital, emotional intelligence, prosocial behavior, in-role and extra-role performance, financial and economic performance, green performance, and well-being. Accordingly, this review would be beneficial to inspire academia and practitioners on the transformative potential of mindfulness in organizations for higher performance, well-being, and sustainability. Future research opportunities and directions to be addressed are also discussed.
Highlights
In recent times, an intensified inquisitiveness has grown among scientists of many disciplines to delve into the mindfulness concept entrenched 2500 years ago in Buddhist teachings [1,2,3]
This review identified the causative processes due to higher mindfulness that generate positive cognitive, emotional, physiological, and behavioral outcomes: focused attention; present moment awareness; non-judgmental acceptance; self-regulatory functions; lower mind wandering; lower habit automaticity; and self-determination
The evidence stipulated in this review justifies that mindfulness and meditation application is crucial in improving relationships, stress reduction, motivation, employee engagement, performance, and wellbeing in organizations due to the positive influence of high mindfulness on cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and physiological domains
Summary
An intensified inquisitiveness has grown among scientists of many disciplines to delve into the mindfulness concept entrenched 2500 years ago in Buddhist teachings [1,2,3]. Cross-cultural, or interdisciplinary studies on this tool would provide comprehensive long-lasting solutions to burning issues in organizational science At this juncture, a review with coherent integration of fragmented findings on this concept is crucial to understand such a phenomenon widely used in mainstream management. A rationally comprehensible impression about the concept and the benefits, such as increased productivity and well-being of the employees, by applying the concept, should be available to invest in a concept such as mindfulness empirically or practically On this backdrop, the researchers of the current study observed that reviews on the mindfulness concept are available in the literature, no comprehensive integrative review covers the recent findings progress, during the last five years, and the effects and mechanisms in organizational management.
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