Effect of Workplace Spirituality on Project Team Creativity with Mediating Role of Project Team Prudence and Project Team Virtue

Abstract

Purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of workplace spirituality on project team creativity and the mediating role of project team prudence & project team virtue between workplace spirituality and project team creativity. The data for this study has been collected from Telecommunication Services Provider Industry of Pakistan. We tested the effect of workplace spirituality on project team creativity and further examined the mediating effects of project team prudence & project team virtue between workplace spirituality and project team creativity. Results indicated that workplace spirituality has a moderate correlation with project team creativity and there is partial mediation in our model via only one mediator project team prudence. Future researchers may opt to conduct the research by including additional moderating variables, examining underlying factors of workplace spirituality and establish their relationship with project team creativity both at higher and medium level of project team management.

Exploring individuals' workplace spirituality in the context of their work teams: A qualitative multi‐case, multi‐team study

“…Spirituality has been explored for decades by scholars and researchers across many academic disciplines such as adult education (Tisdell, 2006(Tisdell, , 2008 and management (Nicolae et al, 2013;Pandey & Gupta, 2008), involving the topics of organizational performance (Garg, 2020), organizational culture (Chalofsky & Cavallaro, 2013;Hisam & Sanyal, 2021), employee performance and behavior (Jena, 2021;Osman-Gani & Anwar, 2014), corporate social responsibility (CSR) (Afsar & Umrani, 2020), organizational citizenship behavior (Anwar & Osman-Gani, 2015), and across cultures (Ali & Rehman, 2021). Fry and Nisiewicz (2013) explained that a person's spirit is a very powerful force of inner life with a desire to connect with others and to give meaning to their life and work, and is driven by hope, faith, and self-transcendence or wholeness.…”

“…Li et al (2014) observed that this change in workforce structure calls for further research on team member behaviors that effect team productivity and team member motivation. Given the prevalence and increasing use of work teams (Salas et al, 2018), a better understanding of how individuals express and experience WS in their work teams is warranted because limited empirical research is available on the topic of WS and even less research has examined WS within the context of work teams (Ali & Rehman, 2021). Therefore, to address these shortcomings, the purpose of this study was to better understand how individuals express and experience WS within their work teams and how their WS influences their work teams.…”

“…The topic of spirituality has been explored by scholars and organizations to understand human responses to life endeavors and to individuals' relationships to society at large and to work environments more specifically (Garg, 2020; Jena, 2021). Spirituality has been associated with a person's desire to perform meaningful work (Ali & Rehman, 2021), to feel connected with the community that is being served (Benefiel et al, 2014), and is associated with human performance (Saks, 2011), job involvement (van der Walt & Swanepoel, 2015), job satisfaction and job attitudes (Abbas et al, 2020), ethical business practices (Michaelson et al, 2014), and awakening of personal value (Hisam & Sanyal, 2021). Researchers have also identified the need to integrate spirituality and work to reduce job stress and burnout (Kumar, 2015).…”

“…Fry and Nisiewicz (2013) explained that a person's spirit is a very powerful force of inner life with a desire to connect with others and to give meaning to their life and work, and is driven by hope, faith, and self‐transcendence or wholeness. Common themes and attributes of spirituality have indicated that it is about the search for meaning and purpose (Jena, 2021), a sense of interconnectedness and community (Ali & Rehman, 2021; Tisdell, 2006, 2008), transcendence, personal wholeness, and well‐being (Jena, 2021); and, of personal growth, joy, and fulfillment (Marques et al, 2009). Empirical studies (i.e., Jena, 2021) associated spirituality with the concept of physical, mental, and psychological well‐being where an individual is also believed to be in an optimal state of living and having a balanced sense of self, work, and giving to others in a meaningful way.…”

“…Empirical studies (i.e., Jena, 2021) associated spirituality with the concept of physical, mental, and psychological well‐being where an individual is also believed to be in an optimal state of living and having a balanced sense of self, work, and giving to others in a meaningful way. Although some scholars have argued that the concepts of spirituality and religiosity can be interchangeable, a growing base of literature has suggested that spirituality and religiosity are two entirely different constructs (Ali & Rehman, 2021). Furthermore, scholars acknowledge that there are different streams of spirituality (Tisdell, 2006, 2008), but a specific theme, WS, the focus of this study, follows.…”