Abstract
Teaching as a profession demands calling and commitment beyond human’s limitations. The conscious choices by teachers are leading them toward stress, burnout, and conflicts at personal and professional levels. The aim of present study is to explore the perceived workplace spirituality of school teachers. The information was collected from 243 Indian school teachers. The meaningful work, meaningful life, interpersonal relationship and working environment were extracted as main dimensions of workplace spirituality in schools. The factor structure was validated by using partial least square structure equation modeling. Workplace spirituality was discussed as a measure to overcome issues related to teaching and teachers. This research will lead the future researchers to explore and empirically verify sources of workplace spirituality in classroom settings.
Highlights
Teaching as a profession demands calling and commitment beyond human’s limitations
Regarding the outcomes of workplace spirituality, it is benefiting at individual, group and organizational levels
In Indian context the values and virtues teachers carry into their profession are reflection of their cultural heritage
Summary
Teaching as a profession demands calling and commitment beyond human’s limitations. The conscious choices by teachers are leading them toward stress, burnout, and conflicts at personal and professional levels. The continuous expedition toward better human resources management found a milestone named as workplace spirituality It is a new field developing its theoretical existence in individual, organizational and social context (Moore & Casper, 2006; Sheep, 2006). Workplace spirituality provides meaningful work and aim to individuals’ work life. Spirituality at work is an endeavor for finding meaning in the work life, virtuous interpersonal relationships, and harmony with organizational values (Mitroff & Denton, 1999). Behavior thinkers and scholars tried to construct a spiritual framework for employees’ spiritual growth in their modern workplaces While, working toward this model Milliman, Czaplewski, and Ferguson (2003) suggested that meaningful work and shared feelings in work communities are factors influencing workplace spirituality
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