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Contemplating Mindfulness at Work: An Integrative Review
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Mindfulness research activity is surging within organizational science. Emerging evidence across multiple fields suggests that mindfulness is fundamentally connected to many aspects of workplace functioning, but this knowledge base has not been systematically integrated to date. This review coalesces the burgeoning body of mindfulness scholarship into a framework to guide mainstream management research investigating a broad range of constructs. The framework identifies how mindfulness influences attention, with downstream effects on functional domains of cognition, emotion, behavior, and physiology. Ultimately, these domains impact key workplace outcomes, including performance, relationships, and well-being. Consideration of the evidence on mindfulness at work stimulates important questions and challenges key assumptions within management science, generating an agenda for future research.
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- Authors
- Good, D. J., Lyddy, C. J., Glomb, T. M., Bono, J. E., Brown, K. W., Duffy, M. K., Baer, R. A., Brewer, J. A., & Lazar, S. W.
- Affiliations
- Pepperdine University (US)
- Case Western Reserve University (US)
- University of Minnesota (US)
- University of Florida (US)
- Virginia Commonwealth University (US)
- University of Kentucky (US)
- University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Good, Darren J.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Journal of Management
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2015-11-19
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 114-142
- ISSN
- 0149-2063 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-1211
- OpenAlex
- W2212262744
- Cited by
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- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 58.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Management (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Keywords
- mindfulness at work, workplace functioning, attention, cognition, emotions, behavior, employee performance, workplace relationships, employee well-being, management research agenda
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