Workplace Spirituality and Organisational Justice in Community Based Organization

Abstract

Empirical studies on linking organisational spirituality and workplace outcomes in community-based business organisations is largely missing. By taking Mumbai Dabbawala Organisation (DBO) (India), as a case in point, the study highlights the role of workplace spirituality in creating a high performing work system with a unique notion of distributive justice. A well-developed spiritual workplace, such as DBO, have entirely different meaning of distributive justice, where individual level aggrandisement is replaced by larger group concerns. Workers tend to reciprocate and work towards achieving shared objective of larger societal good through their work. This research connects the distributive justice literature with workplace spirituality and argue that in community-based organisations integrating spirituality with work witness a higher commitment and performance levels of its workers.