Workplace Spirituality as a Predictor of Employee Engagement

Abstract

Researchers have acknowledged that highly engaged employees go the extra mile and innovate to move their organisations forward. This kind of thought generates the concept of workplace spirituality (WPS). Workplace spirituality identifies that by nature employees are spiritual and seek purpose and meaning in their work. This meaningful work is a significant predictor of employee engagement. The chapter draws our attention towards workplace spirituality and employee engagement and documents to understand workplace spirituality as an antecedent of employee engagement with reference to meaningful work. Meaningful work is a least understood need of the employees that requires more research and desired steps to be undertaken by the organisations to have engaged employees. This chapter contributes by theoretically developing the relationship between these two streams, that is, WPS and employee engagement, and also highlights the measures adopted by Indian firms to spiritually engage their employees at workplace.