Proceedings of the International Management Conference
Year: 2024
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Leading with Sonic Therapeutic Intervention for Mental Manumission
Vasudev Das
ABSTRACT:
Studies on leading emancipation from mental slavery have gained traction in the management domain; however, investigative inquirers have not extended their research searchlights to leading with sonic therapeutic intervention for mental manumission. This hermeneutic phenomenological study fills the gap in the leadership literature. Enslavement to the human mind and sensory modalities subsumed in low self-control has resulted in leaders’ involvement in financial crimes and sex scandals in the 21st century globally in all arms of government: the executive, judiciary, and legislature. Uncontrolled sensory modalities and an unregulated mind greatly hinder a law-abiding and peaceful society considering that all crimes and antisocial behavior are due to low self-control. Antislavery frontrunners worked dexterously toward the abolition of slavery, but adequate attention was not being given to emancipation strategies for mental slavery. Grounded in Bandhura’s self-regulation, Gottfredson and Hirschi’s self-control, and Prabhupada’s sonic therapeutic intervention (STI) frameworks, the investigative inquirer explored the lived experiences of eight STI practitioners on how STI facilitates mental manumission or emancipation from mental slavery. Semi-structured interviews of purposeful samples and analysis of relevant documents constituted data resource strategies. A meticulous scrutiny of the interview data transcription enabled the emergence of six themes: the sonic therapeutic intervention promoted demonstrable self-control, high emotional intelligence, postconventional consciousness, pro-spiritual values, self-regulation, and willpower. The six themes that emerged from the data analysis enabled mental manumission or emancipation from mental slavery. The positive social change implications (PSCI) included augmented selfleadership, self-discipline for sustainable development, sobriety, values-based leadership, people-oriented decision-making, and enriched sustainable leadership. The study’s findings and recommendations if implemented might also enable crime reduction in civic society. onship between work environments, nurses’ job satisfaction and intention to leave, as well as to introduce the Magnet classification. Using a descriptive correlational study, we obtained 1015 responses to the questionnaires sent out. The questionnaires used were the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI) and the Nurses’ Satisfaction at Work Scale (ESET). The data was processed using the Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS), version 29. For the hypothesis tests we used: Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Tukey test and Spearman correlation coefficient significance test. 40.0% of the hospitals were classified as having a mixed working environment, 39.5% as having an unfavourable working environment (non-Magnet) and the remaining 16.5% as having a favourable working environment (Magnet). Most professionals expressed moderate satisfaction (83.5 per cent). There was also a correlation between the work environment and the intention to leave, and with satisfaction and the intention to leave. Nurses who had a more favourable perception of the work environment tended to show greater job satisfaction. There is still a lot of work to be done by hospital managers to make work environments more favourable and thus increase nurses’ job satisfaction and reduce their intention to leave.
keywords: demonstrable self-control, high emotional intelligence, pro-spiritual values, selfregulation, willpower