The Effect of Spiritual Values on Employees’ Organizational Commitment and Its Models

Abstract

Organizational commitment, productivity and efficiency are among the most important issues of organizational management, and generally, a significant subject in socio-economic life of the countries and spiritual values at work are the valuable and effective factors that can escalate this commitment. Spiritual values at work means that the individuals and organizations consider working in a spiritual path, in an opportunity to grow and contribute to society in a meaningful way, attempting to live their values more fully in the work they do. It is also about care, compassion and support of others; an integrity and people being true to themselves and to others. In America, managers have an increasing interest in combination of spirituality and management at present. This combination has the deepest values that are effective on their work and to the same degree promise them more success. In management scope it seems that spirituality at work could have numerous applications regarding organizational behaviour. Organizational commitment has much importance among the organizational behavi our variables, since it can predict employees’ turnover as a working attitude and affects output considerably.The paper aims to study the effect of spiritual val ues on employee's organizational commitments as well as the application of different spiritual models that could provide insights on how and under what conditions spiritual values can positively affect profitability and employees behaviour in organization. T he result of the study revealed that spiritual value at work is one of the most important fac tors that create employees organizational commitments and the relationship between them are significantly positive. The finding also indicates that when employees experienced spirituality at work, they feel more effectively closed to their organization, experience a sense of responsibility and loyalty towards them, and feel less materially committed. What seems important is that organizational commitments and increasing productivity had a certain relation with spirituality at work and as a result, manager m ust improve spirituality climate in order to promote organizational commitments and, thus, employ and organizational performance.