CRISIS MANAGEMENT FROM THE SPIRITUAL OUTLOOK OF THE THREE MAJOR WORLD RELIGIONS. ARE THERE ANY PRACTICAL LESSONS TO BE LEARNED?

Purpose - The paper is aiming to identify practical lessons on crisis management from the spiritual outlook of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Methodology/approach - The present paper is a conceptual study based on a limited set of critical key aspects of the reviewed literature on crisis and crisis management that were put to work in a searching process across the Holy Books of the three major world religions. Findings - Crisis have afflicted both secular and religious establishments in the history of the mankind, and their definition features, underpinning causes, stages and solving approaches prove several similarities, the spiritual-religious element broaden the entire perspective. Research limitations/implications - The research was limited by the speculative aspect of the approach. Practical implications - There are practical lessons on crisis management from the three major world religions that organizations could benefit from. Originality/value - Mirroring secular and spiritual perspectives on crisis and crisis management provides an added value towards a better understanding of the organizational crisis phenomenon and its approaches to manage them.