Systematic Literature Review of Employee Mindfulness and Organizational Relational Systems

Mindfulness practice has been proposed to be helpful in improving
workers’ well-being, resilience, and performance and reducing stress
when challenged with intense workplace conditions. However,
research on mindfulness remains analytically focused on the
individual or atomic level of inquiry, incognizant of its adjacency with
inter-subjective relational systems - as a collective phenomenon.
Taking a human relational systems perspective, this scoping review
of mindfulness literature advances research in organizational
behavior scholarship by systematically identifying (through the
preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses’
extension for scoping review) relevant sources of evidence and
synthesizing the conceptualizations and connections to other
organizational concepts; putting the worker at the front and centre.
The result is a big, interconnected web/network of concepts that
primarily connects mindfulness and aspects of relational systems
with other notable workplace-related variables. No other review
paper has, in the past, comprehensively dwelled into this gap area
in exploring related key terms, concepts, theories, variables, and
methodological trends in research until now, making it possible to
envision vistas for future inquiry. Therefore, this review serves future
researchers by providing them with a rich, operational conception
of mindfulness from a relational systems perspective, as well as
suggestions for new research, both empirical and theoretical, that
focuses on the organizational effects of mindfulness. Furthermore,
this review enlightens research scholars’ minds about conducting
desk research, regardless of the topic, objectively and unbiasedly.