1. Values and Spirituality in University Classrooms
What’s Going On: Santa Clara Experience
Compared With U. AK. Data
André L. Delbecq
Santa Clara University ©
© 11/17/14

2. Santa Clara Participants
Advanced MBA Elective
Senior Executive Auditors
Healthcare Executives

3. Motivation
The Search of Meaning In Knowledge Work That is Self-Consuming ( )
Spiritual Disciplines as a Path To Integration (2010-Present)
Spirituality as World View and Path (Cavanaugh, G.
Hanson, K. Hanson, B. and Hinojoso, J. (2001)

4. Echoes in U. AK. Survey
48% of instructors who perceived an unmet need as motivation to offer a course
47% of respondents for whom life motivation was a driving force for taking the course
Caveat: Ethics Offered Elsewhere in Curriculum At Santa Clara

5. Broad Approach Taken Action Learning Assignments: Change in
Examine Evidence of Leadership Challenges in Managerial Literature
Examine Insights From Multiple Religious/Wisdom/Spiritual Traditions Bearing of Challenge
Engage Mitigating Spiritual Practices (with multiple options congruent with participant traditions)
Action Learning Assignments: Change in
Understanding/Observation/Behavior Associated With
Both Conceptual Learning and Spiritual Practice Assignments

6. Echoes in U. AK. Survey
76% of instructors who focused on spirituality and meditation

7. Echoes in U. AK. Survey Regarding Student Resonance
44.19% who valued change in meaning and purpose
42% who valued meditation, journaling, spiritual practice

8. Academic Acceptance: Echoes in U. AK. Data
Congruent with Majority of Respondents, Initial Resistance But Gradual Indifference Based on Positive Feedback;
Not Initially Driven by Academy
Driven By External Need and Instructor Motivation; Experiment - Official Course
The Last Five Years of Empirical Evidence Changing Context; Parallels to Ethics/CSR

9. Outcomes Exceptional Student Evaluations Anecdotal Feedback
Content Analysis of Student Assignments
Focus Group Feedback Post-Seminar
Executive Cohort Evaluations
Echoes U. AK. Findings

10. Getting to Yes Begin as an Experiment
Learn from Earlier Pioneering Efforts
Look to Both Academy & Executive Support
Include Both Conceptual/Theoretical and Spiritual Practice