Spirituality in the Context of Teams and Organizations: An Investigation of Boundary Conditions Using The Integration Profile Workplace Spirituality Measure

Abstract

In the past two decades, there has been growing interest in workplace spirituality, why it matters, and how it impacts organizational outcomes. We examined how workplace spirituality interacts with elements of workplace teams (i.e., leadership and the surrounding organizational context) to impact important individual- and team- level outcomes. Using a sample of 331 full-time employees plus an additional 293 team member peers, we used a newly developed workplace spirituality measure, The Integration Profile (Miller et al., 2019), to predict organizational commitment and collective efficacy, with ethical leadership and openness of faith environment as moderators. Findings demonstrated the importance of workplace spirituality for organizational commitment, along with significant moderators of ethical leadership and openness of faith environment. We also report exploratory analysis of the factor structure of the workplace spirituality measure, concluding that most of the construct is driven by a global factor as opposed to the theorized eight first-order dimensions.