Abstract
The attention paid by researchers and practitioners to the relationship between employee engagement and spirituality in the workplace is limited, as studies of the two variables still stand alone. This leads to an important and increased emphasis on strength and employee engagement that are built on the organizational culture to show an awareness of spirituality in the workplace. This study aimed to explore the relationship between workplace spirituality and employee engagement of lecturers in Indonesia and professional commitment as a mediator. The respondents of the study were 322 lecturers from state and private universities in Indonesia. Validity, reliability, simple regression, and path analysis were used to analyze the data. The results of the study showed that workplace spirituality had a direct effect on employee engagement, with the β value of 0.836, and the R-square of 70%, while professional commitment had a mediating effect on the relationship between workplace spirituality and employee engagement, with the β value of 0.162 and the R-square of 72.3%. The results suggest that the implementation of workplace spirituality and employee engagement is important for universities to improve the performance of their lecturers.
Highlights
Today, organizations pay great attention to issues of spirituality in the workplace and employee engagement in business (Baskar & Indradevi, 2020; Ke et al, 2017)
The results for workplace spirituality were to Milliman et al (2003), WPS involves a sense β = 0.836, ρ = 0.000, professional commitment yield- of wholeness, and this is similar to employee ened β = 0.461, ρ = 0.000, while the R-square was 70%. gagement, which involves completeness
It is workplace spirituality had a direct effect important to be a whole and integrated individon employee engagement, and this supported H1 ual (Pfeffer, 2010), and when these characterisand H3; these findings were consistent with previ- tics are supported by an organization, employees ous studies
Summary
Organizations pay great attention to issues of spirituality in the workplace and employee engagement in business (Baskar & Indradevi, 2020; Ke et al, 2017). These core engagement is often explained as the investdimensions have disclosed certain workplace be- ment of an individual’s complete self – cognitive, haviors, including job satisfaction, turnover inten- emotional and physical – into their work role tion, citizenship behavior, involvement, and com- (Rurkkhum, 2010; Whittington et al, 2017); this mitment (Margaretha et al, 2020). This study used three dimen- alty), financial performance of an organization, sions of workplace spirituality from Ashmos and along with positive job-related attitudes (i.e., exDunchon (2000) that consists of inner life, mean- tra-role behavior, job satisfaction, commitment, ingful work and is connected with the commu- and well-being). WPS is heartfelt and experienced by employ- to achieve goals, improved work performance, ees when values in work, groups, and organ- higher commitment at both organizational and izations are described and combined, and is professional levels (Deepak, 2016). Ke et al (2017)
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