Abstract
This study reveals the worth of spirituality at workplace by considering its factors (inner life, meaningful work and sense of community) in the context of Islamic work ethics for investigating employees’ performance. The data was collected from 347 serving middle line managers of Islamic banks across major cities of Pakistan. SPSS 21 was used to analyze the data through correlation, multiple regression and moderated regression analysis with appropriate data normality and independence. The results revealed that two determinants of spirituality at workplace (meaningful work and sense of community) create significant positive impact on employees’ performance. On the contrary, the third determinant (inner life) exhibits insignificant effect on employees’ performance. It is also established that Islamic work ethics do not moderate the relationship between inner life and employees’ performance; however, a moderation effect of Islamic work ethics is found in the relationship between meaningful work and employees’ performance as well as sense of community and employees’ performance. Thus, implications for Islamic banks have been discussed in particular and other organizations in general to uphold spirituality at workplace and Islamic work ethics for sustaining performance standards across all quarters.
Highlights
Modern era is overwhelmed by social, environmental and economic problems resulting from greed for self-interest and lack of compassion and love for others
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As various scholars emphasized that workplace spirituality can play a pivotal role in achieving employees’ performance in banking sector of Pakistan, the primary objective of present study is to determine the impact of inner life, meaningful work and sense of community as factors of workplace spirituality on employees’ performance
Summary
Modern era is overwhelmed by social, environmental and economic problems resulting from greed for self-interest and lack of compassion and love for others. Al-Arimi, Masrom, and Mahmood (2016) argued that moderating role of IWE while considering the association of workplace spirituality has not yet received considerable attention Taking this opportunity as a gap, the present study investigated the impact of workplace spirituality on employees’ performance while considering IWE as moderator in Islamic banking industry. As various scholars emphasized that workplace spirituality can play a pivotal role in achieving employees’ performance in banking sector of Pakistan, the primary objective of present study is to determine the impact of inner life, meaningful work and sense of community as factors of workplace spirituality on employees’ performance. As Islamic principles completely cover all prospects of life including working in any organization; the present study aims to investigate the moderating role of IWE on determinants of workplace spirituality and employees’ performance relationship
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