Workplace Spirituality and Employee Well-being: An Empirical Exploration

Abstract

The popularity of concept of spirituality is increasing exponentially in the field of human resource management. Both academicians and practitioners are looking at spirituality to solve modern day human resource challenges. Spirituality at work is about search for meaning or higher purpose, connectedness and transcendence. The present research article addresses conceptual and empirical gap using the concept of workplace spirituality and empirically examines relationship between workplace spirituality and employee commitment, job satisfaction and work–life balance satisfaction. The article successfully augments literature by suggesting one more dimension (Karma Capital) of Indian spiritual values. This is one of the pioneer studies that used necessary condition analysis (NCA) to explore workplace spirituality. Workplace spirituality was reported as a necessary determinant of employee commitment, job satisfaction and work–life balance satisfaction. Relationship between these variables is further investigated through correlation matrix and regression analysis.

Exploring and Conceptualizing Workplace Spirituality in Islamic Banks

“…Nevertheless, research shows that organizations without workplace spirituality ultimately result in higher absenteeism and turnover rates, greater workplace stress, and depression (Thomspon, 2000). The encouragement of workplace spirituality fosters creativity, honesty and trust, personal fulfilment, and increased commitment (Krishnakumar & Neck, 2002), individual wellbeing and work attitudes (Milliman et al, 2003;Garg, 2017) and greater profitability (Thompson, 2000).…”

“…The significance of workplace spirituality in modern organizations cannot be undermined despite of all hesitances to study the concept particularly in the Western context that was traditionally tied to religion (Freshman, 1999). Research shows that workplace spirituality improves employee well-being (Garg, 2017), employee work attitudes (Milliman, Czaplewski, & Ferguson, 2003), behavior and job satisfaction (Van der Walt & de Klerk, 2014), organizational commitment (Rego & Pina e Cunha, 2008), reduce work stress (Daniel, 2015), create ethical organizations and increase organizational performance (Garcia-Zamor, 2003), and so forth. Though a substantial research exists that determines the influence and relationships of workplace spiritu-132 ality on various organizational factors; an in-depth literature review indicates that the research is still in its infancy and even the canvas of the special interest group of management, spirituality and religion of the Academy of Management is still blank (Tackney et al, 2017).…”

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“…Aktuální výzkumy mapující vliv osobnostních faktorů na pracovní spokojenost se orientují také na oblast duchovní dimenze osobnosti (May, Gilson a Harter, 2004;Tracey, Scott a Kelly, 2011;Garg, 2017). Duchovní dimenze je podle Němčekové (2004) nejužším způsobem spojená se smyslem života a má přímý dopad na úroveň spokojenosti jednotlivce a úroveň jeho psychické a subjektivní pohody.…”

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“…Ela é uma abordagem relativamente nova no contexto das organizações (PARDASANI; SHARMA; BINDLISH, 2014), porém, ganhou força nos últimos anos (RAJAPPAN et. al., 2017), despertando maior interesse dos pesquisadores organizacionais sobre o tema (GARG, 2017), o que indica uma crescente importância da espiritualidade dentro do domínio organizacional (KHARI;SINHA, 2018). A espiritualidade é um fenômeno complexo, que não pode mais ser ignorado pela sociedade e pelas organizações (SANDERS;HOPKINS;GEROY, 2003).…”