Abstract
Workplace spirituality is a novel concept and it has been identified as a unique way to improve organizational performance. On the other hand, many organizations are experiencing undesirable consequences of lack of workplace spirituality, such as employee stress, turnover, absenteeism, and lack of employee creativity. Hence, organizations are now focusing on developing workplace spirituality in the workplaces as it offers many advantages to organizations. Despite the growing interest on workplace spirituality, there is still a dearth of research on the topic of workplace spirituality. Literature suggests that employee innovative work behavior directly leads to enhance organizational performance and workplace spirituality leads to increase innovativeness and creativity of employees. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to fill the gap in literature, to a certain extent by proposing a conceptual model to examine the effect of workplace spirituality on employee innovative work behavior. Thus, it proposed that there is a positive effect of workplace spirituality on employee innovative work behavior. Consequently, intrinsic motivation from componential theory of creativity was integrated to identify the mediating effect of intrinsic motivation on the effect of workplace spirituality on innovative work behavior.
Highlights
Employee innovative work behavior is essential for long-term survival of organizations (Afsar & Rehman, 2015; Oldham & Cumming, 1996) as innovative work behavior is essential for achieving competitive advantage over their competitors (Aravamudhan & Krishnaveni, 2014)
Implications and Directions for Future Research As the impact of workplace spirituality and innovative work behavior was not addressed to date, this study offers important implications to theory and practice
The model developed in the current study considered only two factors; workplace spirituality and intrinsic motivation as the factors that promote innovative work behavior
Summary
Employee innovative work behavior is essential for long-term survival of organizations (Afsar & Rehman, 2015; Oldham & Cumming, 1996) as innovative work behavior is essential for achieving competitive advantage over their competitors (Aravamudhan & Krishnaveni, 2014). Though the organizational leaders have understood the importance of innovative work behavior of employees and workplace spirituality (De Jong & Den Hartog, 2007; Gupta, Kumar, & Singh, 2014; Rego & Pina e Cunha, 2008; Saks, 2011), it was not sufficiently studied (Afsar & Rehman, 2015; Duchon & Plowman, 2005; Jurkiewicz & Giacalone, 2004). The objective of the current study was to examine the effect of workplace spirituality on the innovative work behavior of employees. To align with the objective of the study, this paper hypothesized a conceptual model for workplace spirituality and employee innovative work behavior. The proposed conceptual model suggests that intrinsic motivation mediates the effect of workplace spirituality on the innovative work behavior of employees.
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