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Spirituality and Public Administration

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Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance

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Connectedness with higher entity; Public service as a calling; Spiritual Values; Spirituality; Transcendental experience

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Spirituality: This is an individual/experiential sense of being connected with a higher entity that transcends the individual. Spirituality is individually/experientially, rather than institutionally, based. The spiritually oriented individual may be imbued with such values/virtues as benevolence, love for others, justice to others, altruism, compassion, etc. Spiritually oriented individuals may go through transcendental experience or connectedness with a higher entity. This higher entity may or may not be religiously based.

Instrumental Rationality: This refers to finding and using the one best or optimal means or instrument to achieve a given goal(s). Efficiency and cost-effectiveness epitomizes instrumental rationality insofar as it means achieving goals with the use of minimum available resources.

Administrative Efficiency: This refers to...

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  1. Department of International Relations, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

    AbdelRahman Ahmed AbdelRahman

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

    Ali Farazmand

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AbdelRahman, A.A. (2018). Spirituality and Public Administration. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3546-1

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