Spiritual Workplace Research Articles

Role of Workplace Spirituality and Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) In Improving Lecturers’ Performance

Educators serve as primary stakeholders profoundly shaping the caliber of tertiary educational establishments. Various determinants impact educator performance, encompassing competencies, motivational factors, discipline, and leadership qualities, as well as Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB), where employees’ actions surpass their primary job responsibilities. This study intends to experimentally demonstrate the impact of workplace spirituality on the productivity of Lecturers in the Muhammadiyah Aisiyah College (PTMA) setting, both directly and indirectly. To gather empirical data on the impact of workplace spirituality on the performance of PTMA lectures, this study used a quantitative method with a causality design. A questionnaire completed by 260 academics was used to obtain the data. The PLS method and structural equation modeling were used to examine the data. processing data with the SMARTPLS program. According to the study's findings, OCB is positively and significantly influenced by the spiritual workplace, and both OCB and performance are positively and significantly impacted by the spiritual workplace's impact on PTMA lecturers’ performance. The final significant finding is that OCB can enhance performance in spiritual workplaces. These findings have consequences for PTMA managers, and it is vital to encourage an increase in OCB by bolstering the spiritual workplace in the PTMA they oversee to boost the performance of their lecturers.

Analysis of the Association Between Reward and Workplace Spirituality with Employee Performance

It is unique when you want to know the effect of rewards and workplace spirituality on employee performance. Why? Because rewards, in the form of compensation and promotions, are proper if they have an effect on employee performance, but if only in the form of praise, it is not so significant. Likewise, workplace spirituality is very tentative. That is the uniqueness of this research. The object of research is at Waroeng Steak and Shake Yogyakarta. The research was conducted with a quantitative descriptive associative approach. The research instrument was a questionnaire distributed to a total of 120 respondents (employees). The results showed that there was a significant influence on the reward variable (0.580) and workplace spirituality (0.000) on employee performance; with the equation Y = 4.038 + 0.580 X1 + 0.682 X2. Determination (Adjusted R2) is 0.660 or 66%, which indicates that 66% of the value of Y is explained by X1 and X2 and the remaining 44% is explained by other factors. Another finding was that the company's efforts in providing rewards and in creating a spiritual workplace received a positive response from employees.

Disrupting the Dysfunction: Workplace Spirituality, Dispositional Influences, and Job Satisfaction

This paper investigates the influence of workplace spirituality on the effects of dispositional factors, specifically exploring the connection between dysfunctional thought processes on subjective well-being and job satisfaction. Multigroup comparison analysis is used to compare a secular work sample and a sample from an overtly spiritual workplace. The findings suggest that workplace spirituality attenuates the negative effect that dispositional qualities have on job satisfaction. This research has theoretical and practical implications suggesting that the dispositional model of job satisfaction has a boundary condition such that workplace spirituality may be a contextual influence which can be fostered by organizational leadership to disrupt dysfunctional thought processes, thus improving key individual and organizational outcomes.

PENERAPAN WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY DI KBIH AN-NUR KARAH AGUNG SURABAYA

Spirituality is an understanding related to the balance of one's soul both spiritually and materially. Spirituality is an effort to be close to God, then implemented in everyday life, including in the work environment. The application of Worplace Spirituality to employees can affect the quality of performance. In this study, the researchers found the following results: first, forms of implementing a spiritual workplace at KBIH An-Nur Karah Agung Surabaya, including: Dhuhur Prayer, Asar Prayer, Dhuha Prayer, Reading Al-Waqiah Letter, Saying Islamic sentences, Closing Aurot , and Listening to Murottal. Second, the factors supporting the implementation of spirituality workplace at KBIH An-Nur Karah Agung Surabaya, namely: facilities, sincerity, responsibility, mujalasah as-shalihin and physical evidence. While the inhibiting factors are: lack of time management skills.

Sustainable Careers under Spiritual Leadership and Workplace Spirituality: A Subordinates’ Perspective during Covid 19

When engaging in career planning every employee tends to work towards achieving meaningful career success over time. Careers have also become a focal point due to the devastations of global pandemic on organizations and general public all around the world. Where it has halted functioning of different sectors such as tourism, airline or retail industry, yet health care industry has experienced increased workload on an already saturated and overburdened health sector of Pakistan. This research is conducted to examine the relationship between spiritual leadership, workplace spirituality and maintaining sustainable careers over time in health sector of Pakistan. Spiritual leadership enhances these dimensions. Workplace spirituality works as a promoter for exhibiting spiritual leadership styles at workplace. They strengthen employees by enhancing their self-fulfillment and by nourishing different streams of their careers goals. Sustainable career consist of work experiences assumed over time while providing meaning to the individual. It is measured through indicators of health, happiness and productivity in different dimensions of time, person and context. The present study examines relationship between spiritual leadership, workplace spirituality on maintaining sustainable careers during turbulent times of pandemic. The study was conducted in health sector of Multan, Pakistan. Data is collected through interviews and qualitative analysis is performed. Verbatim method is used to report the results for analysis purpose. Our findings attest that employees were generally satisfied with a spiritual workplace and spiritual leadership but their health, happiness and productivity were affected differently when dimensions of time, person and organizational’ context were changed. This study will contribute more insights for literature of sustainable career and spirituality at workplaces.

The Influence of Workplace Spirituality, Commitment and Organizational Culture on Teacher Productivity

This study aims to analyze the influence of workplace spirituality and organizational culture on teacher productivity with organizational commitment as a mediating variable in madrasas. Seeing the problems and research objectives to be achieved, this study uses an explanative research approach with a survey approach. The questionnaire was compiled based on research variables: workplace spirituality, organizational culture, teacher productivity and organizational commitment. The research data was taken from 100 teachers who were the sample of this study. Data collection was carried out by using a random sampling technique. The data analysis uses the Partial Least Square (PLS) approach using Smart PLS software. The results of the hypothesis test show that workplace spirituality affects teacher productivity. The higher the workplace spirituality, the higher the teacher's productivity. Organizational culture influences teacher productivity. This means that the higher the organizational culture, the higher the teacher productivity. Teacher productivity affects organizational commitment. This means that the higher the teacher's productivity, the higher the organizational commitment. There is an indirect effect between workplace spirituality on teacher productivity through significant organizational commitment. In conclusion, the better the spiritual workplace and organizational culture, the more teacher productivity can increase, and the stronger the organizational commitment is supported.

Building students’ entrepreneurial orientation through entrepreneurial intention and workplace spirituality

This article aims to determine the effects of entrepreneurial intention on students' entrepreneurial orientation and examine the moderation of workplace spirituality. This study uses a quantitative approach by distributing questionnaires to the five largest state universities in Eastern Indonesia, involving 397 students in entrepreneurship programs. The study results reveal that a spiritual workplace can counterproductively moderate the intention to build students' entrepreneurial orientation. In the context of Indonesian students, it seems that subjective norms have the most decisive influence on intentions. Several suggestions were offered regarding the meaning of the university environment as students’ habitat for learning and the importance of integrating spirituality in the context of academic work to become a true entrepreneur. This study highlights that entrepreneurial orientation can be built with strong intentions even though workplace spirituality does not fully support work-based entrepreneurial learning.

Workplace Spirituality as a Mediator Between Organizational Trust and Thriving at Work

This study examines workplace spirituality as a mediator between organizational trust and thriving at work. Using a survey research design, data was collected from 157 employees across three hotel companies operating in the tourism and hospitality management sector in Turkey and was then analysed with structural equation modelling. The results suggest that workplace spirituality plays a significant mediating role in the relationship between organizational trust and thriving at work. We discuss how workplace spirituality can support an environment where employees trust their organization and can thrive at work. Practitioners can support a spiritual workplace by developing a set of foundational attributes that convey a purpose-driven and meaning-based culture where both openness and trust are supported. The findings contribute to the workplace spirituality literature and have several important implications. Limitations and future research directions are outlined.

A Study of Relationship between Spiritual Leadership and Workplace Well-being of Teachers in Secondary Schools, Lahore Pakistan

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between spiritual leadership and workplace well-being of secondary school teachers. The study is quantitative in nature and a correlation research design has been used. The secondary school teachers of Lahore are mainly targeted population and stratified sampling technique is used to draw sample of the study. The sample consists of 150 secondary school teachers (75 male and 75 females). Two close ended questionnaires on five-point likert type scale were adapted for this study. The reliability of the instruments has been approx. 0.931 and 0.94 respectively. Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient has been used to investigate the relationship between spiritual leadership and workplace well-being. Inferential statistics are used to explore the difference among secondary school teachers’ perception on the basis of their demographic information. Findings of the study reveal that spiritual leadership is strongly correlated with teachers’ well-being in secondary schools. There is a weak positive relationship among spiritual leadership, teachers’ relatedness and teachers’ competence needs. It is recommended that the head teachers should adopt spiritual style to run the school effectively because under this leadership, a healthy environment in schools might be developed and teachers may perform their duties better.

Workplace Spirituality in HRM

The paper presents the main topics of research in the field of workplace spirituality in the context of human resource management (HRM). The study is based on a literature review and bibliometric analysis of publications in order to determine the main topics undertaken in this field and their importance for human resource management. In total, 123 publications from the Web of Science database from the years 1999–2020 were analyzed using cluster analysis applying the VOSviewer method. The paper provides definitions and dimensions of workplace spirituality, and considers the significance of spirituality in human resource management. The contribution of the research is to shed light on the concept of a spiritual workplace in HRM and to indicate directions for future research in this field.

MENGURANGI KONFLIK KARYAWAN MELALUI SPIRITUALITAS ISLAM DI TEMPAT KERJA "MENGANALISIS KINERJA KARYAWAN DI BANK SYARIAH”

The research aims to empirically examine the effect of Employee Conflict through the workplace of Islamic spirituality and Analyze Employee performance at Islamic Banks. The data collection method uses a questionnaire. The total sample of 36 employees at the Islamic Bank in Indonesia. Data analysis techniques using linear regression and path path. The results showed that the Spiritual Workplace influenced the conflict of Islamic Bank employees. Conflict affects the performance of Islamic Bank employees. Spiritual Islamic Workplace affects the performance of Islamic Bank employees. Indirectly employee conflict through Islamic Workplace employees has a significant effect on the performance of Islamic Bank employees. The results of the study are expected to be an input for managers to reduce conflicts in the company with Islamic spirituality workplaces

MENGURANGI KONFLIK KARYAWAN MELALUI SPIRITUALITAS ISLAM DI TEMPAT KERJA "MENGANALISIS KINERJA KARYAWAN DI BANK SYARIAH”

The research aims to empirically examine the effect of Employee Conflict through the workplace of Islamic spirituality and Analyze Employee performance at Islamic Banks. The data collection method uses a questionnaire. The total sample of 36 employees at the Islamic Bank in Indonesia. Data analysis techniques using linear regression and path path. The results showed that the Spiritual Workplace influenced the conflict of Islamic Bank employees. Conflict affects the performance of Islamic Bank employees. Spiritual Islamic Workplace affects the performance of Islamic Bank employees. Indirectly employee conflict through Islamic Workplace employees has a significant effect on the performance of Islamic Bank employees. The results of the study are expected to be an input for managers to reduce conflicts in the company with Islamic spirituality workplaces

Reducing Employee Conflict through Islam Spirituality in Workplace "Analyzing Employee Performance In Islamic Banks"

The research aims to empirically examine the effect of Employee Conflict through the workplace of Islamic spirituality and Analyze Employee performance at Islamic Banks. The data collection method uses a questionnaire. The total sample of 36 employees at the Islamic Bank in Indonesia. Data analysis techniques using linear regression and path path. The results showed that the Spiritual Workplace influenced the conflict of Islamic Bank employees. Conflict affects the performance of Islamic Bank employees. Spiritual Islamic Workplace affects the performance of Islamic Bank employees. Indirectly employee conflict through Islamic Workplace employees has a significant effect on the performance of Islamic Bank employees. The results of the study are expected to be an input for managers to reduce conflicts in the company with Islamic spirituality workplaces.

Spiritual leadership, workplace spirituality and their effects on meaningful work: Self-transcendence as mediator role

In increasing their productivity and attitudes in serving the community, every work they do should be considered meaningful both for themselves and for others. Many aspects influence the emergence of meaningful work, including the spiritual leadership style applied by the leader to his subordinates, the spirituality factor in the workplace that affects, and the internal need factors that are reflected in the form of self-transcendence. This is where the strategic function of the institution plays a role in coordinating and integrating spiritual leadership, spiritual workplace, self-transcendence within the individual and the creation of meaningful work is based on the principle of benefits both for themselves and for society so that the function of the Government as a public servant can run well. The purpose of this study was to examine and analyze the relationship between spiritual leadership and spirituality in the workplace towards self-transcendence and realizing meaning in work (Meaningful Work). The population of this study was ASN from 5 agencies and agencies under the Bengkulu city government, namely the Education Office, the Population and Civil Registration Service, the Health Service, the Tourism Office, the Youth and Sports Service. The number of samples was 150 people by convenience sampling method. The research method begins with validity and reliability testing with Confirmatory Factor Analysis. This is followed by an explanation of the statistical descriptions related to the respondent's profile, hypothesis testing using the SEM method by taking into account the goodness of fit test. The results showed that all hypotheses were accepted except the hypothesis of the effect of spiritual leadership on meaningful work by mediating self-transcendence.

Spiritual leadership and employee innovation

This study examines the effects of spiritual leadership on employees’ innovative work behavior (IWB) and how employees’ spiritual well-being intervenes this relationship. The research was based on a self-reported survey of 264 workers in China and was analyzed through multiple regression in structural equation modeling to test the hypothesized relationships. The results of the study concluded that employees’ IWB is positively influenced by the effects of spiritual leadership. Furthermore, the effects of spiritual well-being intervened in explaining how spiritual leadership influences employee innovation. This study suggests that the innovative behavior of employees can be enhanced through initiating spiritual leadership practices that enable a spiritual workplace, which, in turn, can help organizations to more effectively cope with competitive market pressures to continuously innovate. Moreover, the study expands our current understanding of the role employee well-being can play in enriching individual creativity and innovation.

Workplace Spirituality and Organisational Justice in Community Based Organization

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.

ASSESSING WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY IN A PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATION: GAPS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CORRECTIVE ACTION

Ponte Academic JournalOct 2017, Volume 73, Issue 10 ASSESSING WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY IN A PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATION: GAPS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CORRECTIVE ACTIONAuthor(s): Sanjana Brijball Parumasur ,Claudette RamnarainJ. Ponte - Oct 2017 - Volume 73 - Issue 10 doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2017.10.14 Abstract:This study aims to assess strategies to transform to a more spiritual workplace in a public sector organization, to evaluate its effectiveness, possible gaps and make recommendations for a more effective execution of workplace spirituality, where needed. The study was undertaken in a large municipality department in eThekweni (Durban), South Africa. A sample of 108 participants was drawn using the cluster sampling technique. In this quantitative, cross-sectional, hypothesis-testing methodology, data was collected using a questionnaire whose psychometric properties of validity and reliability were statistically assessed using Factor Analysis and Cronbach�s Coefficient Alpha respectively. Data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results indicate that there is only a moderate level of workplace spirituality in this public sector organization with spirituality being the greatest at the individual level in terms of meaningfulness of work, followed by the group level relating to sense of community and lastly, the organizational level in terms of alignment with organizational values. Evidently, the elements of workplace spirituality have not yet been embraced by this public sector institution. Recommendations are presented, which when carefully implemented, has the potential to bring about a more effective implementation of workplace spirituality at the individual, group and organizational levels. Download full text:Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution Username Password

Creativity & Spirituality: Tools for Organizational Development

Organizations today are aware that nurturing a good work culture leads to value addition and profit maximization. Workplace spirituality is an important tool in creating an energizing work culture. The present paper outlines the concept of spirituality at workplace and how it helps to foster creativity which leads to organizational development. It also highlights a few examples from ancient Indian mythology to emphasize that creativity and spirituality are the tools for personal as well as organizational growth. Creativity is a necessary part of the business cycle. With technological advancements, market shifts, and demographic changes organizations have to rethink products and services. Thus creativity is the key to successfully navigate through these changes by maintaining spirituality. For this employees and employers should have immense faith in one-another and they should co-ordinate for development of each other. A spiritual workplace provides resources to help people uncover their creative potential and to practice creativity within the organization. Spiritual organization respects and values individuals’ experiences and includes individuals who bring appropriate skill sets to a particular job. The “vertical” and “horizontal” component in spirituality in the workplace leads to employee nourishment and satisfaction. It means individuals and organizations attempting to live their values more fully in the work they do. Both these components should be well integrated to make any organization sound, sustainable, and effective. Creative organizations include both components to drive spiritual hunger and make a difference. This paper is an effort to explore different perspectives of spirituality to enhance creativity and thus achieve organization objectives. The paper is based upon secondary source of information and provides a new look towards creativity and spirituality as we conclude that they are the tools of organizational development.

Taking Care of Business: Critical Leadership Ideas

Critical to success in today’s world, characterized by the knowledge economy, is the ability to communicate and collaborate across the boundaries of cultures, disciplines, and functional areas. In the knowledge economy, where people tend to work in groups, what matters most is the “c factor,” the collective intelligence of the group. A firm that consists of several brilliant employees working on their own may not succeed if there is no collaboration and teamwork. The purpose of this paper is to consider critical concepts from the field of management with which every leader should be familiar -- corporate social responsibility, triple bottom line, learning organization, servant leadership, spiritual workplace, and employee engagement. These all tend to contribute to employee satisfaction, creativity, and productivity.

Using the Book of Psalms to Transform an Organization into a Spiritual Workplace

It is becoming quite evident that the American people have lost confidence in their leaders and institutions. There is quite a bit of evidence that autocratic leaders are not effective in enhancing organizational performance. Thriving organizations are led by compassionate leaders with superior people skills who can motivate employees with their vision. The authors demonstrate how Psalms with its inspiring and rousing hymns can be used to transform an organization into a spiritual workplace. The themes one finds in Psalms include integrity, conscientiousness, curiosity, concern for others, determination, faith, perseverance, resilience, self-confidence and the power of hope. Leaders from the political and corporate worlds should read Psalms for inspiration and as a way to understand the importance of moral leadership.