Examining the influence of spiritual practices on quality of life among older urbanites in an Indian town

Can employee engagement be attained through psychological detachment and job crafting: the mediating role of spirituality and intrinsic motivation

“…Moreover, they have the potential to decide upon the activity they are willing to perform, which ultimately escalates their engagement level. Various studies have supported the findings by indicating that during the period of economic hardship, the feeling of spirituality increases among people (Debnath et al, 2022;Kumar, 2016;World Values Survey, 2014). Research reported that when people are incessantly struggling with job uncertainties, economic exploitation, unemployment threat and financial crunch, which make them to have strong faith on God and thereby encourage spirituality (Debnath et al, 2022).…”

“…However, this influence varies reasonably from others sectors such as Indian information technology sector, Lebanon healthcare sector, Indonesia Education sector, China manufacturing sector (Berdicchia et al, 2021;Weiss and Zacher, 2022). Consequently, there is possibility of individual attributes, organizational characteristics, and national cultural norms, values and practices to influence multicultural team, work culture and work environment, which in turn further influence the nature of job crafting, psychological detachment and employee engagement (Debnath et al, 2022). Consequently, the result of the research is to unfurl the above mechanism and develop a new understanding how proposed model have pattern among Indian food processing employees.…”

“…The selected sample belongs to small-and medium-scale private sector food processing organizations of India. On the basis of calls of Debnath et al (2022) and NSDC Report (2017-2022) (National Skill Development Corporation) stated that the challenges related to human resources, safety issues, work culture need to be answered, mainly in relation to Indian food processing organizations. Invest India Report (2020) and Khati and Kim (2020) reported that employees' psychological and physiological nature is persuasively impacted by organizational environment, work culture, social and safety issues, etc., of Indian food processing organizations, which further affect employee engagement.…”

“…Studies conducted in Lebanon, Italy, Germany, Japan, Romania and South Korea have shown that psychological detachment, job crafting, spirituality and intrinsic motivation act as the main determining factors of employee engagement (Bipp et al, 2019;Ghazzawi et al, 2021). These determining factors can differ worldwide depending on the traits of individual, organizational, and cultural norms, values and practices (Debnath et al, 2022). Therefore, in this study, the objective is to transcend the shortcoming by examining the suggested association among psychological detachment, job crafting, intrinsic motivation, spirituality and employee engagement in the Indian organizational context.…”

“…However, this influence varies reasonably from others sectors such as Indian information technology sector, Lebanon healthcare sector, Indonesia Education sector, China manufacturing sector. Consequently, there is possibility of individual attributes, organizational characteristics, and national cultural norms, values and practices to influence multicultural team, work culture and work environment, which in turn further influence the nature of job crafting, psychological detachment and employee engagement (Debnath et al, 2022). Thus, the present study will contribute through the examination of prospective mechanism that affects psychological detachment and job crafting in relation to employee engagement, wherein spirituality and intrinsic motivation sequentially mediate the relation; and this association is studied with respect to the effort recovery model (Meijman and Mulder, 1998), selfdetermination theory (Deci and Ryan, 1985) and "broaden-and-build" theory (Fredrickson, 1998) in the Indian food processing organizations.…”