Sanctification of work: assessing the role of spirituality in employment attitudes

Carroll, Stephen Thomas; Stewart‐Sicking, Joseph A.; Thompson, B. J.

doi:10.1080/13674676.2013.860519

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“…In the last few years there has been an increase interest in employees spirituality research in the context of the function that this sphere of life plays for well-being 2 . There is a lack of 1 3 .…”

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Spirituality and Job Satisfaction. Mediating Role of Stress, Gratitude Towards Organization and Trust in Supervisor. Moderating Role of Religious Practices

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2018

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Spirituality and Job Satisfaction. Mediating Role of Stress, Gratitude Towards Organization and Trust in Supervisor. Moderating Role of Religious Practices

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“…Although Sanctification of Work (SOW) has never been studied among nurses or other health care providers, it is impressive that this sample generated SOW Manifestation of God (MOG) and Spiritual Qualities (SQ) subscale scores substantially higher than those observed among employees in business/finance/management (Walker et al., 2008) and Catholic educators (Carroll et al., 2014). Whereas this nurse sample generated means of 69 for MOG and SQ 25 for SQ, Walker et al and Carroll et al observed MOG means of 57 and 64, and SQ means of 38 and 50 (respectively).…”

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“…Sanctification of work is the deliberate psychological, emotional, and spiritual experience perceived by a person in their daily work responsibilities which possesses a manifestation of God and/or sacred qualities which affect occupational performance (Walker et al., 2008). In studies of various types of employees, researchers have documented SoW directly linked to positive affect, lower inter‐role conflict and satisfaction with work (Walker et al, 2008), and increased job satisfaction, organisational commitment and less intention to leave (Carroll et al., 2014).…”

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Sanctification of work and hospital nurse employment outcomes: An observational study

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Aim To explore nurse ascriptions of sacredness to work and measure its association with the employment outcomes of job satisfaction, burnout, organisational commitment, employee engagement and turnover intention. Background High portions of hospital nurses experience burnout. Many factors contributing to burnout also contribute to job dissatisfaction and other negative employment outcomes. Personal factors, such as religiosity, help nurses to cope with work. Methods Questionnaires measuring study variables were distributed to all nursing personnel at a faith‐based hospital in Los Angeles; 463 responded. Regression analyses allowed measurement of how sacredness ascribed to work (measured by Sanctification of Work Scale) and religiosity (measured by Duke Religiosity Index) were associated with the various employment outcomes. Results Sanctification of work consistently was found to be associated with less burnout and intention to leave, and more job satisfaction, employee engagement and organisational commitment. Conclusion The sacredness with which a nurse views work explains, in part, positive employment outcomes. Implications for Nursing Management Nurturing a sense of sacredness for work in nurses may provide them with an internal buffer against negative employment outcomes. Suggestions for creating rituals and educating nurses are offered.

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“…The validity of particular generative mechanisms is seldom established once and for all (Ackroyd, 2004 There has been some writing investigating the relationship between organisational culture/identity and SAW (see e.g. Barrett, 2003, Carroll et al, 2014, Parboteeah and Cullen, 2003, Vandenberghe, 2011, Sheep and Foreman, 2012, Rashid and Ibrahim, 2008. However, much of this work is either descriptive or quantitative and fails to explain why such a relationship exists.…”

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Applying critical realism in spirituality at work research

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. Design/methodology/approach: CR is a philosophical meta-theory that allows the stratification of spirituality into different levels of reality, advocates for research methods matching the ontology of the level investigated, and provides complementary methods of exploring this phenomenon's causal power in social contexts. The authors present a study where CR was used to explain how and why SAW influences ethics in organizational contexts. Findings:The results demonstrate that CR provides a useful approach to bridging the positivist-interpretivist difference in SAW research. Moreover, a CR approach helped explain the underlying conditions and causal mechanisms that power SAW to influence ethical decision-making and behavior in the workplace. Originality/value: While CR has been applied in management literature, negligible SAW material has utilized this approach. That which does exist is either conceptual or does not explicitly discuss their methods of data analysis or describe how CR concepts resulted in their findings. This paper addresses that lacuna. CR also provides value, as an alternative approach to SAW research, in that it allows the use of both quantitative and qualitative methods as complementary, not confrontational, approaches to the study of SAW while providing a more integrated and deeper view of SAW and its effects. Opposing this view are those that argue for interpretivist approaches (Lips-Wiersma, 2003, Neal et al., 1999. For instance, Fornaciari and Dean (2001) argue that scientific knowledge is a partial truth, a truth that ignores inner meaning. They "challenge the dominance of the positivist paradigm in spirituality in organizations research, pointing out the absurdity of trying to factor analyse God" (p. 35).Unfortunately, SAW is not easy to classify and can be problematic to measure. How we express spirituality tends to be value-laden and inherently personal. Unfortunately, human beings are complex non-rational and emotional creatures who tend to defy the neat, behaviourist definitions offered by the positivist model. As Lips-Wiersma (2003) argues, not only is one's expression of spirituality intensely unique to each individual, any inquiry into its nature or effe...

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Sanctification of work: assessing the role of spirituality in employment attitudes

Cited by 22 publications

References 36 publications

Spirituality and Job Satisfaction. Mediating Role of Stress, Gratitude Towards Organization and Trust in Supervisor. Moderating Role of Religious Practices

Spirituality and Job Satisfaction. Mediating Role of Stress, Gratitude Towards Organization and Trust in Supervisor. Moderating Role of Religious Practices

Sanctification of work and hospital nurse employment outcomes: An observational study

Applying critical realism in spirituality at work research

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