Intro; Foreword; Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; Part I: Managing in a Monastic Context; A Monastery Is More than a Business: Spiritual Foundations of the Rule of St. Benedict for the Òikonomia óf a Monastery; 1 Initiators and 10 Years of Work; 2 Monastic Life Is Life with a View to Ideals; 3 Do Not Deny the Difficulties of Monastic Life; 4 Monastic Rules and Corporate Governance; 5 The Search for God and the Limits of Stress; 6 Shaping the World from a Spiritual Perspective; 7 Crucial: Character and an Exemplary Way of Living; 8 The Chapter About the Cellarer
9 Essential Prerequisites for Leadership in the Monastery10 A Plea; Using Knowledge from Management Science in the Context of the Church: Possibilities and Limitations; 1 Transferring Knowledge from the Secular World to Monasteries; 2 Specificities of the Monastic Context; 3 The Participants of the Course; 4 Designing the Course and Mitigating the Risk of Managerialism; 5 Some Generic Observations; 6 Summary; References; Management of Monasteries: A Field Report; 1 The Context: The Monastic Community; 2 Their Mission to Serve the Poor Led Monasteries to Establish Enterprises
3 Tensions Between Monastic Life and the Free Market4 The Challenge of Contributing to Shaping the World Order; 5 Teaching Conceptions: Objectives and Structure; 6 Assumptions; 7 Rekindling the Fire; 8 Summary; References; Sustainability for Centuries: Monastic Governance of Austrian Benedictine Abbeys; 1 Introduction; 2 Monastic Governance from a Theoretical Point of View; 3 Monastic Governance of Austrian Benedictine Abbeys; 3.1 Benedictine Principles of Leadership; 3.1.1 Common Understanding of Objectives, Values, and Principles of Action; 3.1.2 Sustainability
3.1.3 Selection and Socialization3.2 Organizational Structure; 3.2.1 Autonomous Monasteries; 3.2.2 Congregation; 3.2.3 Confederation; 3.3 Internal Governance Instruments; 3.4 External Governance Instruments; 4 Empirical Analysis of Austrian Benedictine Abbeys; 4.1 Methodology; 4.2 Results; 4.2.1 Lifespan; 4.2.2 Reasons for Dissolution; 5 Discussion; 6 Conclusions and Directions for Further Research; References; Leadership Training in the Monastic Context: Experiences and Future Challenges; 1 Taking Courage to Always Enter New Territory; 2 Examples from Experience
3 The Necessity of Consultation4 The Signs of the Times; 5 Revitalization of the Communities; 6 The Significance of Contact with the Outside World; 7 Hope Even in Difficult Times; Part II: Leadership Development: Lessons Learned from the LRB Course; Strategy Making: Providing Orientation and Sense; 1 Is Strategy Relevant for a Monastery?; 1.1 Creating a Shared Sense of Purpose and Vision; 1.2 Making Strategy Explicit; 1.3 Providing a Reference Point for Internal Debates; 2 The Content of the Module; 2.1 The Training Process; 3 Observations from the Training and Options to Improve it

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Context of Leadership in the context of religious institutions : the case of Benedictine Monasteries, Günter Müller-Stewens, Notker Wolf, editors

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