Mindfulness: A Concept and its Role in the Workplace
Arvind K. Birdie, Kuldeep Kumar
Apple Academic Press eBooks April 21, 2017 DOI: 10.1201/9781315365855-12 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Review Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Intervention | Mindfulness |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Key findings | Argues that mindfulness, now widely adopted in business, helps employees savor pleasures, engage fully in work, and handle adversity, while reducing worry about the future, regret over the past, and preoccupation with success and self-esteem, and improving connections with others. |
Abstract
276 The present workplace and world is blooming complicated and stressful day by day. The present chapter reviews the role of mindfulness in workplace. Mindfulness is gaining a growing popularity as a practice in daily life, apart from Buddhist insight meditation and its application in psychology. Not that long ago, meditation was seen widely as the preserve of hippies and saffron-clad monks, unsuited for the business world. Nowadays, a growing number of businesses are recognizing what mindfulness has to offer. Being mindful makes it easier to savor the pleasures in life as they occur, helps employees become fully engaged in activities, and creates a greater capacity to deal with adverse events. By focusing on the here and now, many people who practice mindfulness find that they are less likely to get caught up in worries about the future or regrets over the past, are less preoccupied with concerns about success and self-esteem, and are better able to form deep connections with others.
Comparable studies
Other narrative reviews on meditation, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mindfulness training as a clinical intervention: A conceptual and empirical review. Clinical populations | 2003 | Review | |
| Mindfulness: Theoretical Foundations and Evidence for its Salutary Effects | 2007 | Review | |
| Mindfulness Interventions | 2016 | Review | |
| Mind the Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation | 2017 | Review | |
| Mindfulness and acceptance: expanding the cognitive-behavioral tradition | 2005 | Review |